Aidan Finn

Get an overview of Azure AD Connect Health, a feature for monitoring the status of your synchronization or federation between on-premises Active Directory and the cloud-based Azure Active Directory.

In this post, I will explain how Microsoft replicates data in very predictable ways, assuming that you want that data to be replicated.     Mythology There are a lot of myths out there about Azure, such as Microsoft will replicate my virtual machines to a second region so that if there’s a problem in…

Aidan Finn shares details on when Microsoft plans to release Azure Stack, some partner news, how it will be licensed, and features in the new Technical Preview 3 (TP3) release.

This post will show you how to deploy a new Azure virtual machine using Managed Disks using the Azure Portal.

Learn how to restore one or a few files from an Azure virtual machine backup without restoring the entire virtual machine, thanks to Azure Backup Instant File Recovery, currently in preview.

Aidan Finn walks you through how to use a new feature in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V called Key Storage Drive, which gives you the ability to encrypt your virtual machines’ disks.

Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, recently had a major outage that affected almost an entire region. With that outage fresh in our memories, I thought I’d write a post on how to prevent services outages in Azure.

Find out how to deploy the Azure Server Management Tools solution so that you can manage your on-premises Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V hosts securely from anywhere, and from pre-Windows 10 PCs, Macs, and non-Windows tablets.

Aidan Finn explains the new mechanism that Microsoft has just introduced for providing virtual machine storage in Azure, called Managed Disks.

Learn how to enable and configure BitLocker to provide at rest encryption inside of a Generation 1 virtual machine using Key Storage Drive on Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V hosts.

Learn to use Instant File Recovery with the MARS agent to restore files from Azure Backup.

Find out how you can monitor the deployment of an Azure JSON template using the Azure Portal and debug what went wrong using errors in the Azure Portal and the Azure Resource Explorer.