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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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Book Review: Digital Wars by Charles Arthur

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.

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The Curse of Zune: Is Microsoft too Focused on the US Market?

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.

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Installing Microsoft Anti-Malware in Azure VMs

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.

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Microsoft Announces Hyper-V Containers

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.

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Microsoft Announces Nano Server

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

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Connecting Multiple Networks in Microsoft Azure

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.

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Backing Up Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

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.

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Create an Azure RemoteApp Template from an Azure VM

Last Update: Jun 27, 2025

This post shows you how to create an Azure RemoteApp custom template using an Azure virtual machine.

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Getting the Most Out of Azure Site Recovery

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn provides tips based on his lessons learned from deploying Azure Site Recovery with a customer recently.

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Creating a Recovery Plan for Hyper-V VM failover to Microsoft Azure

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.

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5 Reasons Why I Like Microsoft Azure RemoteApp

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn dishes out five reasons why he’s smitten with Microsoft Azure RemoteApp.

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Replicating Hyper-V Virtual Machines to Microsoft Azure

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Aidan Finn provides step-by-step instructions for replicating Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.

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