Aidan Finn

Want to try out the Windows 10 Technical Preview but don’t have a spare physical machine? Aidan Finn shows you how to install and run Windows 10 in a Hyper-V VM in this handy tutorial.

Although the news earlier this week might have been dominated by Windows 10, Microsoft has also started releasing information on the next versions of Windows Server and System Center, as well as details on how Windows 10 can be managed using System Center Configuration Manager and Windows Intune. Windows Server and System Center A post appeared on Microsoft’s Server &…

Aidan Finn serves up tips for working with Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to enhance storage transfers in Windows Server and Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn shows how to leverage Windows Server Failover Clustering priority to manipulate and order failover of highly available Hyper-V virtual machines.

Aidan Finn shows us how to measure the usage of host resources by virtual machines by using resource metering in Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is positioning Azure towards small and medium enterprises as a supplement to on-premise IT resources.

Aidan Finn shows us how to boot a Hyper-V virtual machine off of a network by using the preboot execution environment (PXE).

Aidan Finn shows how to use the Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Enhanced Session mode to get increased performance for virtual machine connections.

Still can’t decide if you should upgrade to Windows Server 2012 R2? Aidan Finn serves up five reasons why you should upgrade to Microsoft’s latest server OS.

In this post Aidan Finn explains what hyper-convergence is and asks the question: Is hyper-convergence the right way to go?

Aidan Finn walks us through the installation of a guest OS from a Windows ISO image in this handy how-to article.

Aidan Finn shows us how to manually install a guest operating system (OS) in a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM).