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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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How to Choose the Correct Azure VM Disk Tier

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan explains the differences between the four Azure virtual hard disk tiers that you can deploy for Azure virtual machines.

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Exploring Microsoft’s Azure Backup Server v3

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has launched v3 of their on-premises backup server that integrates into Azure’s cloud backup & storage services, Azure Backup Server or MABS.

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Digging Into Azure VM Disk Performance Features

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan breaks down some Azure features that allow you to obtain better disk performance with virtual machines.

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Restore an Azure Virtual Machine’s Disks from Backup

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan explains how a new way to restore virtual machine’s disks from backup simplifies some of the complexity we have had with recovering infrastructure assets in the past.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – November 2018 Edition

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

It’s the end of the month and if you missed any of the Azure announcements, we have you covered.

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Microsoft Needs A Quality Review

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan is convinced that Microsoft needs an “XP SP2” fix to everything that they are doing today; he explains why in this post.

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Cross Platform Azure Az PowerShell Modules

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan takes a look at the preview “Az” PowerShell modules that are designed to be a replacement for the older AzureRM modules and AzureRM.Netcore.

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Customer Lockbox Preview for Azure VMs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This post will explain what the preview for Customer Lockbox for Azure virtual machines is and how to enable it and use the feature.

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Azure Launches DC-Series Confidential Compute VM Preview

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has launched a new kind of Azure virtual machine that uses new Intel hardware features to offer a secure computing platform for data security-sensitive operations.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – October 2018 Edition

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

October was a busy time for Azure announcements, here’s what you need to know about the announcements last month.

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Azure AD Domain Services Gets a Few Improvements

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan shares some information about improvements that were made to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Domain Services.

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Don’t Be Stupid – Microsoft Is Not Killing Surface

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

The silliest thing has been riding high in my Google News headlines since last week – The CEO of Canalys still thinks Microsoft is going to kill the Surface line in 2019

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