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Aidan Finn

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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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Create a Containers VM Host with NAT

Nov 02, 2015
Aidan Finn

Learn how to create a new Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) VM host for Windows Server Containers with NAT networking.

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Windows Server Containers Networking

Oct 26, 2015
Aidan Finn

Understand how Windows Server Containers will be connected to the network via a virtual switch, using NAT and DHCP.

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Microsoft Azure Files Generally Available

Oct 23, 2015
Aidan Finn

Microsoft released Azure File Storage with SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 support. What is this service and what is it intended for?

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How Windows Server Containers Work

Oct 19, 2015
Aidan Finn

Learn how Windows Server Containers work by understanding how the repository and container images are used to quickly deploy services with identical configurations and reduced effort.

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Windows 10 Build 10565 Adds Nested Hyper-V

Oct 16, 2015
Aidan Finn

I’ve heard a couple of feature requests for Hyper-V since I started working with Hyper-V back in 2008. Nested virtualization is one of those heavily requested features. Microsoft repeatedly said that they would love to provide Hyper-V nested virtualization, but they didn’t see the need for real world applications, outside of demos, testing, and training. As…

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Introducing Microsoft Azure Backup Server

Oct 12, 2015
Aidan Finn

Microsoft has started Project Venus by launching Microsoft Azure Backup Server, which offers more backup functionality and a local disk repository.

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Azure IaaS Announcements at AzureCon

Oct 09, 2015
Aidan Finn

Microsoft announced a number of improvements to Azure, including new services, price reductions, and virtual machines that affect IT pros.

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Dell Rumored to be In Merger Talks With EMC

Oct 09, 2015
Aidan Finn

Aidan Finn weighs whether Dell is nuts for considering an acquisition of EMC. Would Microsoft own a share of VMware? How can this work?

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What are Windows Server Containers?

Oct 05, 2015
Aidan Finn

Learn about Windows Server containers and how this virtualization technology will benefit your business.

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Windows Server 2016 Feature: Switch Embedded Teaming

Sep 30, 2015
Aidan Finn

Windows Server 2016 will offer a new way to do converged networking called Switch Embedded Teaming that also allows SMB Direct (RDMA) to be converged.

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