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Aidan Finn, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), has been working in IT since 1996. He has worked as a consultant and administrator for the likes of Innofactor Norway, Amdahl DMR, Fujitsu, Barclays and Hypo Real Estate Bank International where he dealt with large and complex IT infrastructures and MicroWarehouse Ltd. where he worked with Microsoft partners in the small/medium business space.

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StorSimple Available — Priced for Small and Medium Enterprises

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn about how StorSimple provides affordable, cloud-scale storage to SMEs.

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A Number of Azure Monitoring Solutions Now Available in GA

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft making Azure Monitor, Azure Network Watcher, Azure Resource Health, and Azure Advisor generally available in GA.

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Restore Azure Virtual Machines to an Availability Set Using PowerShell

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Learn one way to restore an Azure virtual machine from Azure Backup and join that machine to an existing availability set.

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Choosing an Azure Virtual Machine — April 2017

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

We will dig into choosing between the different series and sizes of Azure virtual machines.

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Create NAT Rules for the Hyper-V NAT Virtual Switch

Last Update: Jun 04, 2025

Find out how to create NAT rules for virtual machines that are connected to an NAT-enabled virtual switch on a Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) or Windows 10 Hyper-V host.

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Preview of Resource Policy in the Azure Portal

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Resource Policy is a very nice feature in Azure Resource Manager that allows you to control what delegated administrators can do in an Azure subscription or resource group.

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Azure Announces Ls-Series Virtual Machines

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

This article discusses the newly launched Ls-Series Azure virtual machines and how they are intended to be used. We will cover the specs, performance, and availability.

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What Is Azure Network Watcher?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Server administrators are going to be responsible for much of the networking that was not formerly in their scope. Azure Network Watcher is a great tool to help monitor and troubleshoot your network deployments.

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Converting Azure VM Disks to Managed Disks

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

I will show you how to convert a virtual machine, not in an availability set, but with virtual hard disks in a storage account to a virtual machine using Managed Disks.

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Microsoft Shares Interesting Secure Azure Network Design

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft recently shared a detailed design for a secure network deployment in Azure, based on the United Kingdom’s cloud security principles. The focus of Microsoft’s article was on the UK, but we can use this design as a basis for other deployments.

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Using a NAT Virtual Switch with Hyper-V

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Create a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V virtual switch that uses network address translation (NAT), enabling virtual machines to be isolated behind a single shared IP address on the host.

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Configuring VM Networking on a Hyper-V NAT Switch

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Get an explanation of methods you can use to configure the IPv4 address configuration of a Hyper-V virtual machine that is connected to a NAT virtual switch on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (WS2016).

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