Aidan Finn

Aidan Finn shows a step-by-step process for creating a VNet-to-VNet VPN to connect two virtual networks in the same or different Microsoft Azure regions or subscriptions.

Learn the basics of Microsoft Azure’s VNet-to-VNet Virtual Private Network (VPN) functionality in this handy primer by Aidan Finn.

Make your IT administration easier with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012’s ability to pause and drain clusters.

Aidan Finn explains how Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it easier to export virtual machines with the ‘live exporting’ functionality.

Aidan Finn explains several different reasons for why you might want to pin a file in Microsoft’s Storage Spaces.

The Microsoft Azure cost estimator tool can help you determine what resources to move to the cloud, but Aidan Finn points out some glitches that need fixing.

Aidan Finn explains when you might need to create a NIC team inside of a virtual machine.

In part three of this article series on building a non-clustered Hyper-V host, Aidan Finn provides tips for deploying the host for production environments.

In part two of our series on deploying a non-clustered Hyper-V host, Aidan shows us how to enable the Hyper-V role.

Our series on Hyper-V DHCP Guard and Router Guard concludes with how to enable those features in existing VMs and with System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Aidan Finn explains how Hyper-V Router Guard and DHCP Guard can be used to prevent guest OS administrators from enabling unwanted network services.

Dealing with frozen virtual machines in Hyper-V? Learn how to get the GUID of a VM running on WS2012/WS2012 R2 Hyper-V in order to kill it.