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Welcome to the SysAdmin Weekly Podcast, your go-to source for IT-related content tailored to busy system administrators in the trenches. Hosted by longtime sysadmins and Microsoft MVPs Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron, this show dives deep into the challenges and solutions that matter most to sysadmins on any given day. From technical know-how to real-world insights, SysAdmin Weekly is dedicated to those tireless professionals who keep our digital world running. Tune in for relevant topics, expert advice, and engaging discussions to make your busy schedule a little bit easier.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to the SysAdmin Weekly Podcast, your go-to source for IT-related content tailored to busy system administrators in the trenches. Hosted by longtime sysadmins and Microsoft MVPs Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron, this show dives deep into the challenges and solutions that matter most to sysadmins on any given day.
SysAdmin Weekly is hosted by Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron. The show has published 64 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "064 - Backup and Recovery in 2026: Why Boring Backups Win" (26 October 2026, 61 minutes), "062 - What Free IT Training Actually Gets You Hired in 2026 and 2027?" (11 October 2026, 80 minutes), and "061 - Why Does IT Burn People Out? SysAdmin Mental Health with Paul Croker" (27 September 2026, 65 minutes).
SysAdmin Weekly publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 71 minutes across 64 episodes.
Booking probability for SysAdmin Weekly is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. SysAdmin Weekly requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. SysAdmin Weekly's contact route on record: verified email.
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Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron hosts SysAdmin Weekly, a technology podcast with 64 episodes published.
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Your backups should be boring: hardware you know, a copy that lives somewhere else, at least one copy nobody can change, and a restore test that proves the whole thing works. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron go back to...
Free IT training is real and it is actually free. The exam that gets you past a resume screen is the part that still costs money. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron go through the free IT training worth your evenings...
We throw an alert when a disk hits 85 percent. Nobody has ever built the monitoring system for the person who gets the alert. Andy Syrewicze is joined by Paul Croker, a UK IT pro who founded 404 Stress Not Found, a...
Microsoft has no intention of making 365 licensing simpler, because the complexity is what gives them room to negotiate. Andy Syrewicze gets Paul Schnackenburg back on the show to map Microsoft 365 licensing as it...
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Which protocol you use to reach the box is the least interesting decision you will make about remote access. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron go after the piece they cut from the tools episode. Eric lands the sharpest...
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The tools that stay in the kit for a decade are the ones that still work when the network, the domain, or the boot volume is the thing that broke. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron open their real toolboxes and argue about...
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Somewhere inside that isolated network, port 22 is open, and it has been open since the outage six months ago that nobody wrote up. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron take apart a term the industry uses constantly and almost...
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Two careers, two completely different entry points, and the exact same first catastrophe: data gone, no idea if it was coming back. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron trade full origin stories, from the 486 and the VIC-20...
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"No budget" is almost never no budget. It is no budget yet, and the thing that closes the gap is your ability to put a real dollar figure on the risk you are carrying. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron have both run IT for...
Windows Admin Center is a genuinely useful tool wrapped in an on-ramp so rough it took Andy four hours, a from-scratch certificate authority, and a pile of misleading error messages just to reach the login screen. Andy...
When you are the only person standing between a working business and total collapse, the job stops being about doing everything and starts being about deciding what not to do this week. Andy and Eric Siron tackle a...
Somewhere between a $305 Raspberry Pi board and a used NVMe listing on eBay, the homelab hobby quietly stopped making financial sense. Andy and co-host Eric Siron dig into why memory, NAND, and storage prices went...
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The hardest part of running a home lab in 2026 is not building it up; it is being honest about what earns its place. Andy is joined by returning guest and member of the SysAdmin Weekly community, Clay Tamam, a working...
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A postmortem that ends with a name instead of a root cause wasted everyone's time in the room. Andy and Eric Siron pull from a combined several-decades of incident reviews to break down what a postmortem actually is...
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<p>A postmortem that ends with a name instead of a root cause wasted everyone's time in the room.</p><p><br></p><p>Andy and Eric Siron pull from a combined several-decades of incident reviews to break down what a...
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Ask Claude or ChatGPT to write a phishing email and it politely refuses; pull the right open-weight model onto your own laptop and that refusal layer simply does not exist in many cases. Andy brings his InfoSecurity...
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<p>Ask Claude or ChatGPT to write a phishing email and it politely refuses; pull the right open-weight model onto your own laptop and that refusal layer simply does not exist in many cases.</p><p><br></p><p>Andy brings...
The AI doom headlines do not line up with what the actual data says, and that gap is doing real damage. Andy and Eric Siron take a practitioner read on the fear stories: the layoff narrative, the data center energy and...
<p>The AI doom headlines do not line up with what the actual data says, and that gap is doing real damage. Andy and Eric Siron take a practitioner read on the fear stories: the layoff narrative, the data center energy...
<p>Turning on DNS over HTTPS does not make your browsing private. The hostname you are trying to reach still leaks in the TLS handshake through the Server Name Indication field, and that is the part most coverage of DoH...
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