Hosted by Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 50 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
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.
Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron hosts SysAdmin Weekly, a technology show with 50 episodes published.
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, wha
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 Euro
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 w
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 qui
The skepticism is earned. Most AI demos are built for developers. Most AI hype is vendor noise. And most SysAdmins have better things to do than adopt another tool that solves a problem they may or may not have. That sai
It's always DNS. Every SysAdmin has said it, usually at the worst possible moment. This episode is the explanation for why that joke is only half a joke. Andy and Eric walk through how DNS actually works from first reque
Failover clustering is the part of Hyper-V that trips up the most people, especially anyone arriving from the VMware side. In this episode Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron pick up directly where episode 043 left off: you ha
Hyper-V has been around since 2008, runs Azure, runs Xbox, and still gets overlooked by shops fleeing VMware/Broadcom pricing. In this episode Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron go back to basics: what Hyper-V actually is und
Andy and Eric Siron tackle one of the most debated questions in IT careers: do you find a company and stay for the long haul, or do you job hop every few years to chase better pay and new challenges? With over four decad
Andy and Paul Schnackenburg dig into a leadership change at Microsoft that has the security community raising eyebrows. Charlie Bell, the executive vice president of security who championed the Secure Future Initiative,
After a brief hiatus, the crew is back! Andy is joined by both Paul Schnackenburg and Eric Siron to tackle a big question: what happens when access to compute becomes a subscription privilege instead of an owned capabili
Microsoft reportedly handed over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI as part of a criminal investigation and that raises some uncomfortable questions. In this episode of SysAdmin Weekly, Andy and Eric unpack what actually
This week on SysAdmin Weekly, we push back hard on one of the most damaging patterns in modern IT security: making decisions based on fear instead of facts. Security headlines love absolutes: “everything is broken,” “enc
It’s a new year, which means it’s time for every SysAdmin’s favorite activity...... dusting off the incident response and disaster recovery plans that haven’t been touched since the Apollo moon landing. In this episode o
Abstraction has made modern IT faster, easier, and more scalable but it’s also quietly eroding the deep technical understanding that SysAdmins used to rely on. In the first SysAdmin Weekly episode of 2026, Andy and Eric
This week on SysAdmin Weekly, Andy goes on a (fully justified) rant about the current state of browsers and why it feels like there are no good options left for sysadmins. From Chromium monoculture and browser bloat, to
Modern IT feels stuck in a vicious cycle: software ships faster than ever, quality keeps slipping, and SysAdmins are left cleaning up the mess. In this episode of SysAdmin Weekly, Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron dig into t
IT job postings have gotten… weird. In this episode of SysAdmin Weekly, Andy flies solo to take a realistic look at modern IT job listings amongst historic industry layoffs and why so many of them feel disconnected from
Microsoft Ignite just wrapped and shockingly, it wasn’t only about AI. (Okay, it was mostly about AI.) In this episode of SysAdmin Weekly, Andy and Paul cut through the marketing noise and walk through what actually matt
This week, Andy and Eric dive into one of the most underrated superpowers in IT: community. Not the cringe corporate “community,” but the real stuff. Think mentors, friends, people who help you level up, and the shared h
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
SysAdmin Weekly has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their technology audience.
SysAdmin Weekly is hosted by Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron. The show is categorised under technology and has published 50 episodes.
SysAdmin Weekly has published 50 episodes.
SysAdmin Weekly regularly covers technology. It sits in the technology category.
SysAdmin Weekly is accessible for guests with genuine technology expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
SysAdmin Weekly hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of SysAdmin Weekly average 70 minutes, giving guests a long-form format with plenty of time to expand on their expertise.
Our data rates SysAdmin Weekly's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 4 days ago.
