Aidan Finn

Aidan provides step-by-step directions to download a virtual machine from Microsoft Azure and get it running on a local or on-premises Hyper-V host/cluster.

How should your company select an Azure virtual machine? Aidan Finn lays out what the series and preset sizes really mean and offers guidelines for getting the most for your budget.

In this post I will show you how to deploy and configure the Azure Resource Manager (ARM and CSP) network load balancer. The post will cover load balancing Azure virtual machines and creating NAT rules.

In this post about Azure network security group best practices, Aidan offers tips for creating, configuring, and associating network security groups (NSGs) in Azure Resource Manager or CSP.

After lots of feedback, Microsoft Azure has added public preview support for backing up and restoring virtual machines that use Premium Storage. This article will explain what that means for you. Background Most people who are new to cloud or hosting assume that any hosted virtual machine will be backed up by default and for…

Microsoft recently announced that Azure RemoteApp can be used with Azure AD Domain Services (still in preview) for domain authentication, without running domain controllers as virtual machines in Azure.

Aidan explains, using recent statistics, how the nature of attacks has changed from floppy disks and firewall probes, to a more intelligent system that targets human weaknesses.

This post will show you how to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or a CSP subscription to deploy network security and policy enforcement in the form of network security groups (NSGs).

Network security groups (NSGs) can offer network security and policy enforcement for virtual networks in an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or CSP deployment.

Learn how to quickly deploy a new virtual machine-based Active Directory domain in Azure using a JSON template in Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

Microsoft has announced the release of Enterprise State Roaming for Windows 10 business customers and we dive into what this feature offers.

In this article Aidan Finn discusses the most forgotten aspect of migrating or deploying services into the cloud: Exactly how will the users connect to the services that will be running in Azure?