Aidan Finn
Petri ContributorAidan 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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Managing Windows Server Containers with PowerShell: Creating a New Container
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Nov 09, 2015
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Learn how to manage and create Windows Server Containers using PowerShell, as well as explaining the file types and locations.
Windows Server 2016 Feature: ReFS Accelerated VHDX Operations
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Nov 03, 2015
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Windows Server 2016 improves the speed of VHD and VHDX operations. Aidan Finn show the results using basic 1 GbE iSCSI storage.
Create a Containers VM Host with NAT
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Nov 02, 2015
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Learn how to create a new Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) VM host for Windows Server Containers with NAT networking.
Windows Server Containers Networking
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Oct 26, 2015
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Understand how Windows Server Containers will be connected to the network via a virtual switch, using NAT and DHCP.
Microsoft Azure Files Generally Available
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Oct 23, 2015
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Microsoft released Azure File Storage with SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 support. What is this service and what is it intended for?
How Windows Server Containers Work
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Oct 19, 2015
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Learn how Windows Server Containers work by understanding how the repository and container images are used to quickly deploy services with identical configurations and reduced effort.
Windows 10 Build 10565 Adds Nested Hyper-V
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Oct 16, 2015
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I’ve heard a couple of feature requests for Hyper-V since I started working with Hyper-V back in 2008. Nested virtualization is one of those heavily requested features. Microsoft repeatedly said that they would love to provide Hyper-V nested virtualization, but they didn’t see the need for real world applications, outside of demos, testing, and training. As…
Introducing Microsoft Azure Backup Server
- Oct 12, 2015
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Microsoft has started Project Venus by launching Microsoft Azure Backup Server, which offers more backup functionality and a local disk repository.
Azure IaaS Announcements at AzureCon
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Oct 09, 2015
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Microsoft announced a number of improvements to Azure, including new services, price reductions, and virtual machines that affect IT pros.
What are Windows Server Containers?
Last Update: Jun 27, 2025
- Oct 05, 2015
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Learn about Windows Server containers and how this virtualization technology will benefit your business.
Windows Server 2016 Feature: Switch Embedded Teaming
Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
- Sep 30, 2015
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Windows Server 2016 will offer a new way to do converged networking called Switch Embedded Teaming that also allows SMB Direct (RDMA) to be converged.
Microsoft to Combat Advanced Persistent Threats
Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
- Sep 23, 2015
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Microsoft is working on a new project, code-named “Sonar,” to offer “malware detonation as a service,” according to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. What could this mean? In this article, I will explain Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and how the security industry is adapting to deal with them. Traditional Malware Detection Way back when I was in…