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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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Deploying and Configuring Network Security Groups in Azure ARM

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).

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What Are Network Security Groups in Azure Resource Manager?

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

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Deploy a New Domain from a Microsoft Azure Template

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

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Azure Enterprise State Roaming for Windows 10 Now Generally Available

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

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Connecting Users to the Azure Cloud

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?

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How To Migrate Machines To Azure

In this “how do I ..?” article I will explain how you can use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to migrate machines, VMware, physical, or Hyper-V, running Windows or Linux, to Azure with minimized downtime.

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Working With Azure Cool Storage

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Cool Blob Storage in Azure, a new more affordable way to archive files in the cloud. In this post, I’ll explain what Cool Storage is, what Hot Storage is, how they are priced, how to deploy Cool Storage, and what you’ll see in the Azure Portal.

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Move an Azure VM from Standard to Premium Storage

In this article Aidan will show you how to migrate the data disks of an Azure virtual machine (in Azure Resource Manager or ARM) from a Standard Storage (HDD-based) account to a Premium Storage (SSD-based) storage account to improve performance (more IOPS and less latency).

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Implementing Azure User Defined Routing

In this post I will show you how to create a route table and routes, and associate that route table to virtual subnets.

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Implementing Azure Routing Using PowerShell

In this post I will show you how use PowerShell to create a route table and routes, and associate that route table to virtual subnets.

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