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SysAdmin Weekly

by Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron

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  • 062 - What Free IT Training Actually Gets You Hired in 2026 and 2027?

    October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    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: Microsoft Learn, AWS…

  • 061 - Why Does IT Burn People Out? SysAdmin Mental Health with Paul Croker

    September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    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 nonprofit built because…

  • 060 - Microsoft 365 Licensing in 2026: What Changed and What It Costs You

    September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    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 actually stands in 2026…

  • 059 - How Should SysAdmins Handle Remote Access in 2026?

    September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    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 version half an hour…

  • 058 - What Tools Do SysAdmins Actually Use Every Day?

    September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    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 what earns…

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  • 057 - Is Your Air Gap Actually an Air Gap? Port 22 Says No

    August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    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 never earns. They…

  • 056 - How People Actually Get Into SysAdmin Work

    August 22, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

    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 through the first…

  • 055 - How Do You Run IT With No Budget?

    August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    "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 organizations where…

  • 054 - Windows Admin Center in 2026: Good Tool, Broken On-Ramp?

    July 24, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    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 rebuilt his lab on…

  • 053 - How to Survive as a Solo SysAdmin: Where to Start When You're the Only One

    July 17, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    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 listener-requested…

  • 052 - Why is Homelab Hardware So Expensive in 2026 (and When Will It Get Cheaper)?

    July 10, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    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 vertical in 2026, who is…

  • 051 - What's Actually in Our Homelabs (and Why)

    July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

    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 SysAdmin over in the…

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About the show

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.