Aidan Finn

This step-by-step how-to post will instruct you on how to resize an Azure virtual machine, including changing the size within a series or switching the virtual machine to another series.

July was a busy month for Azure announcements, in this post, we wrap it all up so that you can stay up to date on the latest announcements.

Microsoft has a new firewall feature for Azure and in this post, Aidan breaks down how it works and how to use it.

Looking to see what the pro’s use every day? Aidan shares the apps that help him in the workplace.

Aidan Finn talks about the new automatic management of tiered Azure blob storage by a new preview Azure feature called Lifecycle Management.

Aidan Finn discusses a new preview recycle bin feature for Azure blob storage called Soft Delete.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can use the snapshot feature of managed disks to create an exact copy (including identity and SID) of a virtual machine.

Aidan Finn explains how you can use volume licensing Software Assurance or Cloud Solution Provider subscriptions for Windows Server to reduce the cost of Microsoft Azure virtual machines.

Aidan Finn discusses a new tier of virtual machine storage that recently went into preview in Microsoft Azure, called Standard SSD Disks.

This post will discuss the preview release of Microsoft’s Storage Explorer for Azure storage, which is built into the Azure Portal.

Aidan Finn discusses and demonstrates the new write once-read many (WORM) blob storage feature that Microsoft recently launched in preview.

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.