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Oct 2026

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RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products.

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October 21, 202637 min

OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications with Will Velida

What are the risks of using agents in your organization? While at NDC in Oslo, Richard sat down with Will Velida to talk about the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications. AI agents promise productivity gains, but they also introduce entirely new attack surfaces. Richard and Will explore threats such as prompt injection, agent goal hijacking, memory poisoning, privilege abuse, and cascading failures across multi-agent workflows. They also discuss the tooling, governance frameworks, and security practices organizations need to adopt to move agentic applications from proof-of-concept to production safely. Links OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 Microsoft Purview OpenTelemetry AI Agent Observability Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit Microsoft AI Foundry Hugging Face Agent Plugins Microsoft Entra Agent ID Documentation Agentic Authorization Recorded Sept 17, 2026

October 14, 202634 min

Choosing Tools in M365 with Joy Apple

Turning on every tool in M365 is rarely a successful strategy - so how do you choose? Richard chats with Joy Apple about her work as a consultant helping organizations use the huge array of products in the M365 universe. Joy talks about meeting people where they are - understanding how they currently work, and then finding tools that can best amplify their productivity. Collaboration tools are a huge part of that story - finding ways to work together is always a challenge. And that's one of the many reasons there are so many tools in M365... It's all about addressing what people want to do! Links OneDrive Viva Engage Search in M365 Copilot Microsoft Planner Microsoft Loop Azure SRE Agent Recorded Sep 1, 2026

October 7, 202637 min

Cloudflare Edge Workers with Bob Fornal

What can Cloudflare do for you? While at KCDC in Kansas City, Richard chatted with Bob Fornal about how his organization uses Cloudflare - not just for content delivery or DDoS protection, but also edge compute - and more! Bob talks about moving workloads between the client and server, where Cloudflare Workers can run some code and save time while staying secure. This leads to a broader conversation about introducing these tools to your organization - it's not likely something web developers will ask for. Still, it can help them, and collaboration between development and operations is always a positive in an organization! Links Cloudflare Planetscale Azure Front Door Cloudflare Workers Recorded Sep 11, 2026

September 30, 202633 min

AI and Penetration Testing with Paula Januszkiewicz

How is artificial intelligence changing cybersecurity and penetration testing? Richard talks to Paula Januszkiewicz about how her team now uses large language models throughout the security workflow, from vulnerability research and data analysis to penetration testing and incident response. Paula explains that AI hasn't replaced security professionals, but it has dramatically accelerated the work, making it possible to analyze more data, build better tools, and identify attack paths faster than ever before. The conversation also explores the defender's perspective, including monitoring, logging, incident response, and why organizations still need to eliminate insecure technologies like NTLM. AI is changing cybersecurity rapidly, but the fundamentals of security remain the same. Links Defense at AI Speed Claude Mythos Microsoft Sentinel Automatic Attack Disruption with Liz Tesch Recorded Aug 26, 2026

September 23, 202639 min

Building Agents with Andrew Connell

Microsoft offers a surprising number of ways to build agents in Microsoft 365. Which one should you choose? Richard talks to Andrew Connell about the evolving Microsoft 365 Copilot landscape and the four major approaches to building agents. Starting with SharePoint Agents for document-focused scenarios, Andrew walks through Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, the increasingly popular Copilot Studio in the Power Platform ecosystem, and the often-overlooked Agents Toolkit for VS Code. Along the way, he discusses governance, licensing, publishing models, security concerns, and when Azure Foundry makes sense. The result is a practical guide to understanding Microsoft's growing agent platform and choosing the right tool for your organization. Links Microsoft Copilot Architecture SharePoint Agents Agent Builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents Toolkit Microsoft Foundry Recorded Sep 2, 2026

September 16, 202635 min

Patching in 2026 with Susan Bradley

How has patching changed in 2026? Richard chats with patching goddess Susan Bradley about what she's seeing in vendor patches and how they're affecting consumers and businesses. On one hand, you have the security risk of unpatched servers, which puts a lot of pressure on sysadmins to deploy patches immediately. And, at the same time, the number of patches has grown massively as tools like Anthropic's Fable have revealed far more vulnerabilities. Then there are the vendors that are slow to get fixes out for drivers and firmware for existing systems, increasing the risk of serious failures - it's not easy patching in 2026! Links UEFI Secure Boot with Richard Hicks Reassess your Windows Update Policies Dell Hotfix HP Bitlocker Loop Suspend BitLocker Protection End of Support for Office 2016 and 2019 Recorded Aug 21, 2026

September 9, 202628 min

State of WSUS with Adam Marshall

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) was deprecated in Sept 2024 - when does it go away? Richard talks to Adam Marshall about how WSUS is still an essential service for Configuration Manager, included with Server 2025 and V.Next - it's not going anywhere! Adam talks about the use cases WSUS covers that no other update solution does, especially granular control of updates and offline scenarios. And while Microsoft is still feeding updates into the WSUS stack, no new code is going into the solution, making it hard to maintain. That is why Adam has been building WAM - WSUS Automated Maintenance. The stack includes free and paid tools, and all of them make your WSUS life easier! Links Windows Server Update Services Microsoft Intune Windows Update for Business Configuration Manager Windows Autopatch WSUS Automated Management Recorded Aug 20, 2026

September 2, 202636 min

Reimagining Intranets with Susan Hanley

How does AI change the intranet? Richard chats with Susan Hanley about her work helping organizations build great intranets and how tools like M365 Copilot are changing the intranet. Susan talks about the new reality of an intranet, where some users no longer go to the intranet directly but use an agent to retrieve the information they need. This impacts search statistics, but also means it's important to write pages that an agent can easily understand. The conversation also dives into the bane of all intranets - archiving data. LLMs can help with organizing data, but getting stale data out of view is essential. There are also retention policies and governance, and there's a role for these tools there too - the intranet is evolving! Links SharePoint Skills Recorded Aug 17, 2026

August 26, 202631 min

Security Features of PowerShell 7 with Mike O'Neill

How secure are your PowerShell scripts? Richard talks to Mike O'Neill about the powerful security features introduced with PowerShell 7.3 and above, including session configuration files and clean blocks. Mike talks about how some organizations are strict about installing anything on servers, including the latest version of PowerShell - which is one of the reasons 5.1 has persisted so long. But that ends with 26H2 and opens the door to securing your PowerShell with strict controls over accounts, cmdlets, and more! The latest PowerShell makes it easier to have just enough administration - and makes it harder for the black hats to exploit! Links PowerShell 7 Just Enough Administration New-PSSessionConfiguration File PowerShell Clean Block Monthly PowerShell Team Call Mike's Exchange Add-In for PowerShell Recorded July 9, 2026

August 19, 202638 min

Automatic Attack Disruption with Liz Tesch

What if Microsoft Defender not only detected attackers - but also fought back? Richard talks to Liz Tesch about Microsoft Defender Automatic Attack Disruption and Predictive Shielding. Liz talks about how attacks are often detected before the payload executes, but by the time humans can respond, far more damage has been done. Automatic Attack Disruption acts immediately on detection to limit the attacker by locking accounts, restricting access on a compromised server, and more. Predictive Shielding goes a step further by limiting attackers' ability to respond to the disruption by turning off GPO changes, disabling safe mode, and otherwise interfering with the typical actions that attackers take once they know they have been detected. Add AI to the mix, and everything gets more complicated. The black hats are using AI to attack, and Microsoft Defender XDR is using it to defend - the race is on! Links Microsoft Defender XDR Automatic Attack Disruption Predictive Shielding Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Defender for Identity Automatic Attack Disruption EBook Web Scale Graph Mining for Cyber Threat Intelligence Research Paper Local AI Agent Discovery with MDE Threat Hunting in Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Defender for XDR Preview New Features for MDE Recorded June 29, 2026

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