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: Jul 29, 2025
Curious about what Microsoft StorSimple is? Aidan Finn provides a thorough overview of Microsoft’s promising hybrid storage solution in this informative post.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Microsoft has announced that it is pulling faulty Windows patches after users reported problems, including ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) errors.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Looking to brush up on your Hyper-V skills? Aidan Finn serves up a comprehensive listing of some of the best online and offline Hyper-V learning resources.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Need to learn the basics of managing Hyper-V? Aidan Finn gives us the run-down on the most important Hyper-V management tasks.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Learn when you may want to use the Hyper-V protected network feature to protect virtual machines connected to your physical network when there’s an unexpected network outage.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In the Microsoft email privacy case, NY district judge Loretta Preska has ruled against Redmond. Aidan Finn gives us an Irish IT perspective on the news.

Last Update: Jun 29, 2025
Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a lot of new storage features, and Microsoft MVP Aidan Finn introduces us to Dynamic Quorum in this helpful introductory article.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
A new report reveals that Microsoft Azure growth is helping Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure as a service offering gain ground against AWS in the cloud services battle.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Aidan Finn serves up a wish list of the top features and improvements he’d like to see in the next version of Hyper-V.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Considering the purchase of blade servers for your IT department? Aidan Finn argues that blade servers are the wrong choice for today’s data center.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Our two-part series on SMB 3.0 and SMB Multichannel concludes with a discussion of smart SMB design, SMB Multichannel constraints, and SMB bandwidth limits.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In part one of this article series, Aidan Finn shows how to design and manage SMB Multichannel in SMB 3.0, which is a data protocol that is available in Windows Server 2012 R2.