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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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Azure Launches New Av2-Series VMs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced sizing and pricing details for a successor to the Azure A-Series virtual machines, aimed at common/simple workloads that do not require much horsepower.

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Sizing Bandwidth & Storage for Azure Site Recovery

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Learn Microsoft’s method for calculating the storage account requirements and replication bandwidth requirements for the DR-in-the-cloud solution, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), for VMware and Hyper-V.

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Filtering Files and Folders in Azure Backup

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Filter out specific files, file types, and sub-folders from a back selection when using the Azure Backup MARS agent to protect files and folders on a Windows PC or server.

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Build a WS2016 Demo/Training Lab on a Single PC

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Get a walkthrough of how to build a test/demo/evaluation lab for Windows Serve 2016, including Hyper-V and failover clustering, on a single machine (including a laptop).

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Top 5 Reasons to Deploy System Center 2016

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

System Center 2016 was released with Windows Server 2016. As usual, if you want to manage the new Server operating system, then you need to have the latest version of Microsoft’s infrastructure and services management suite.

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Backing Up Files and Folders Using Azure Backup

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn shares an online backup solution for small businesses, branch offices, and mobile workers, where Azure Backup can be used to cost effectively protect files and folders in the cloud.

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Connect Two Azure Resource Manager Virtual Networks Using VNet Peering

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Want to learn how to link two virtual networks using VNet Peering, a new feature in Microsoft Azure? Aidan Finn has you covered with a deep dive into this feature.

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How Can I Connect 2 Azure Virtual Networks?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this post I will show you how to connect two Azure virtual networks (VNets) together, extending one to another, therefore enabling you to route from virtual machines on one VNet to virtual machines that are connect to another VNet, whether they are in the same region or in different regions.     Design Considerations…

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Connect Two Azure Resource Manager Virtual Networks Using VPN

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn shows you how to connect two Azure virtual networks that are in the same subscription using a VNet-to-VNet VPN tunnel.

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Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall Preview

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Find out about a new network security feature, the Web Application Firewall, for web applications that was launched in preview at Microsoft Ignite 2016.

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H-Series Azure Virtual Machines

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Find out about the new H-Series Azure virtual machine, which was launched by Microsoft at the Ignite Conference in Atlanta.

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What’s New in Azure Stack TP2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn walks you through the second technical preview release of Azure Stack, Microsoft’s on-premises version of Azure, that was released at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta.

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