Hosted by Russell Smith · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 14 episodes
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Russell Smith hosts Petri Dish, a podcast for Microsoft system engineers and administrators looking to keep up to date with the latest trends in IT.
Russell Smith hosts Petri Dish, a technology show with 14 episodes published.
AI agents are moving beyond simple productivity helpers and becoming autonomous workers across Windows, Microsoft 365, and enterprise systems.In this episode of Petri Dish, Russell Smith talks with Craig Birch, Principal
In this epsidoe of Petri Dish, we’re joined by Brian Alvey, CTO of WordPress VIP, the enterprise-grade CMS platform trusted by organisations like NASA, Salesforce, and major global publishers. Brian has been building on
Virtualized infrastructure across on-premises data centers and the cloud was supposed to make life easier for IT teams. Instead, it’s often become a tangle of complexity. Why is something as established as virtualisation
Most Entra ID reviews focus on roles and permissions. I.e., who’s a Global Admin, what’s been consented, what looks obviously dangerous. But what if the real risk isn’t a privileged user at all? What if a regular user, w
In this episode of Petri Dish, we’re looking at one of the most important shifts happening in enterprise work right now: the rise of AI-powered document creation. Joining me is Jean-Marc Chanoine, Chief Sales Officer at
Today we’re diving into the story behind Skillable, a platform that helps IT professionals build real-world skills. I’m joined by Danny Abdo, Chief Operations and Product Officer at Skillable, and Corey Hynes, Executive
Attackers aren’t breaking in—they’re logging in. In this episode, we unpack the Microsoft Digital Defense Report (MDDR) and what it reveals about today’s identity-first threat landscape: info-stealers, hybrid ransomware
In this episode, I’m joined by Giovanni Carraro, SVP of Global Strategic Alliances at Kyndryl, to unpack why that gap exists and what it really takes to close it.We’ll talk about what changes when AI systems move from an
In this episode of Petri Dish, Russell Smith sits down with Wendy Stusrud, Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales at DDN to talk about what it really takes to make enterprise copilots and chatbots succeed at scale.
In this episode of Petri Dish, Russell sits down with Ramiro Calderon, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, Jef Kazimer, Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Security Entra Identity Platform, and Tee Earls, Prod
Learn what Kerberos RC4 deprecation means for Active Directory, the risks of Windows Server 2025 domain controllers, and best practices for OU design in this expert breakdown with Principal Technologist Cayosoft, Craig B
In this episode of Petri Dish, I talk to Devolutions CTO, Marc-André Moreau, and we dive into the latest in how AI is changing remote desktop management. Learn how Large Language Models (LLMs) and Model Context Protocol
In this episode of Petri Dish, Petri’s Editorial Director, Russell Smith, talks to Cayosoft CEO and founder Bob Bobel about managing complexity in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and the future of the IAM space.🔗 C
What if you could protect your organization from the latest AD and Entra ID threats without expensive tools or complicated setups? In this interview, I talk to Dmitry Sotnikov and Craig Birch about how @Cayosoft 's free,
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