Christmas Gifts for SysAdmins with Joey Snow and Rick Claus

About Show #1012

The seasonal gift show is back - Joey Snow and Rick Claus bring their lists of great gifts for sysadmins. You know they're impossible to buy for, so we are making it easier for you with a range of prices and seriousness for your favorite sysadmin. Useful gadgets, upgrades to older devices, and some fun stuff that reminds the sysadmins in your life that you get their struggles. Share this show and toy list with everyone you know who struggles to find the right thing!

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Recorded October 30, 2025

Joey Snow is a Principal Security Operations Engineer at Microsoft, focused on identity and access management. Previously Joey has held various roles that help customers confidently implement Microsoft IT and Security products. With nearly two decades at Microsoft, Joey is known for making complex topics approachable and for regular appearances at Microsoft and industry events. He also co hosts the Patch & Switch podcast (patchandswitch.com). Prior to Microsoft, Joey spent more than a decade in enterprise IT, from helpdesk to architecture and management.

Rick Claus engages in person and online with the worldwide Ops community on behalf of Microsoft. As a Cloud Advocate on the Azure engineering team, Rick's role is to connect with technical communities in order capture feedback on how to make things better and to share his knowledge about the ecosystem. Technical areas of expertise from his 20+ years of experience in the IT Industry include: Core Azure infrastructure services, Windows Server, systems management and all things "cloud" ;-) Unofficially, Rick is focused on spreading his enthusiasm, passion and excitement on all things technical to anyone who has the time for a coffee (or pint) and a chat (in English or français - naturellement).

About Show #1012

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