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.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan Finn reviews a book that takes a historical look at the rise of Apple and Google to rise from the shadows of Microsoft’s then monopoly.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan Finn discusses how Microsoft is limiting their potential market by arbitrarily restricting features or limiting services to one or a few countries.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy Microsoft Anti-Malware to Azure virtual machines at scale with scanning exceptions and schedules using PowerShell.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Microsoft announces new Hyper-V containers for better application virtualization in the next version of Windows Server, referred to as Windows Server vNext.

Microsoft announces Nano Server, a server OS optimized for cloud infrastructure and born-in-the-cloud applications.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Learn when to spot different scenarios where you need to connect multiple networks in Microsoft Azure, along with step-by-step instructions on how to do this.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Petri Contributing Editor Aidan Finn walks us through how to use Azure Backup to protect Microsoft Azure IaaS virtual machines.

Last Update: Jun 27, 2025
This post shows you how to create an Azure RemoteApp custom template using an Azure virtual machine.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan Finn provides tips based on his lessons learned from deploying Azure Site Recovery with a customer recently.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
This article explains how you can create a Recovery Plan (RP) for managing and orchestrating the failover of Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan Finn dishes out five reasons why he’s smitten with Microsoft Azure RemoteApp.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Aidan Finn provides step-by-step instructions for replicating Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.