Clive Watson's Blog
Clive Watson, Hybrid Cloud Technical Specialist, Microsoft UK
Windows Server Virtualization Calculator(s)
I stumbled on this today, it seems there is a second calculator now available (the first was made...
Author: CliveW Date: 05/29/2007
Windows Server 2008
So the name just got announced at WinHEC during Bill's keynote, Windows Server "'longhorn" will be...
Author: CliveW Date: 05/15/2007
Remember WinHEC starts today
https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx Last years WinHEC had some great Virtualization...
Author: CliveW Date: 05/15/2007
SCVMM Beta as a VHD
Half the fun (and sometimes pain) is installing new products and getting them to work...however if...
Author: CliveW Date: 05/03/2007
Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 Scenarios
Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 Scenarios Use the Windows Server “Longhorn” Scenario Voting tool to...
Author: CliveW Date: 04/28/2007
All that's new...
So lots of good stuff this week, SCVMM Beta2 and now Windows Server 'Longhorn' Beta3. There is a...
Author: CliveW Date: 04/26/2007
SCVMM licensing
The System Center website was updated recently to reflect the MMS announcements...and the details on...
Author: CliveW Date: 04/05/2007
VHD password
Steven recently asked me about the password for the VHD Testdrive program, he wrote: "I found your...
Author: CliveW Date: 04/02/2007
Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility
This utility will enable backups made with NtBackup under XP or 2003 to be restore to Vista or...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/30/2007
More MMS info..SCVMM and WSV
Take a look here for details on what has been announced so far at MMS. SCVMM beta2 release will be...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/28/2007
It is a pretty big day....
And now for the biggie: At the Microsoft Management Summit in San Diego today we announced that...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/28/2007
I'll never have to explain /3GB again...
...I Hope! Well done to the performance team for their recent Windows Server articles, in particular...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/27/2007
Virtualization whitepapers added
Thanks to Dugie for the tip (once again!) here are a few more papers you may enjoy (it's good to see...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/27/2007
SCVMM by Ben
Ben wrote to me last week to chat about SCVMM after reading my SCVMM blog series (sorry Ben but it...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/22/2007
Why don't I see 4GB?
This is often reported and answered, but as 3 people asked about this today, I thought I'd blog it...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/14/2007
Windows Server 2003 SP2 has been released
I think the title says it all, more details here, the highlights are here as well. Top 10 reasons to...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/14/2007
That just about covers it all (for MS virtualization)
Richard in his second and latest post (of course he may have other blogs) has provided a...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/12/2007
Forum's for Longhorn & Virtualization
I'll admit I just assumed we didn't have a forum for Virtualization hosted on Microsoft.com, but...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/05/2007
Longhorn: Windows Server virtualization 'hypervisor' demo video
I'm very sure you've all seen this by now...just in case you haven't, you can get more details from...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/02/2007
WDS for Network shares
John may have just found a great add-in to index network shares into Windows Desktop Search...I like...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/21/2007
Feb 2007 CTP of Windows Server 'longhorn'
Lots of new changes in the latest CTP build, full details here. Technorati tags: Windowsserver,...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/21/2007
test - please ignore
As I said this is a test...nothing to see here Technorati tags: Test
Author: CliveW Date: 02/20/2007
Virtual PC 2007 available to download
So Virtual PC 2007 has just released, with amongst other things support for Vista as a host or guest...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/19/2007
Live Writer
I may be way behind on this I just noticed that the latest version of Windows Live Writer allows me...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/16/2007
Search Folders in Outlook 2007, my configuration
Ewan's recent post on search folders in Outlook inspired me to change my Outlook 2007 behavior (I...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/16/2007
Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, and their blog
Seems I missed this blog coming on-line at the end of last month...so I'll correct that now. The...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/13/2007
Windows Dreamscene Preview (beta is now on WU)
This must be one of the most talked about Vista Ultimate Extra's and featured heavily during the...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/13/2007
AMD-V hotfix download available
Windows hotfix for computers that have AMD hardware-assisted virtualization support (AMD-V) Brief...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/07/2007
3 New features for WDS
Now I must make some time to have a play with this (when I do I'll let you know, please feel free to...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/07/2007
Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard (Clusprep) is released
It seems like forever that "Clusprep" (as it's known) has been in beta - it's great to see it's...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/07/2007
The home of home
If the recently announced Windows Home Server interests you they now have a blog...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/02/2007
PowerShell and SCVMM better together...
Two of my favorites in one blog post - thanks Jeffrey!
Author: CliveW Date: 01/30/2007
PowerShell for Vista is now available
Excellent - all the details and download can be found here
Author: CliveW Date: 01/30/2007
Windows Server Virtualization Calculator
It does what the title suggests, get it here. The Windows Server Virtualization Calculator provides...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/22/2007
...expanding a VHD and expanding the tools to do so
Great info from Dugie once again, and more details from the developers at https://vmtoolkit.com/ We...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/18/2007
Windows Home Server
This product was announced last night at CES 2007 during Bill's keynote, for more details see what...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/08/2007
Virtual PC 2007 RC now available
I know I'm a little late with this news (due to winding down over Christmas and the New Year),...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/04/2007
Increase a VHD size - the methods
Dugie and others have posted about this in the past, now Conrad has added some great detail,...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/04/2007
Life may have just got easier...
Take a look at a tool Dugie has found to convert VMDK file to VHD format - top find! And there is...
Author: CliveW Date: 12/14/2006
PowerShell documentation
Do you need the Windows PowerShell documentation? If you're on Vista and can't get access to...
Author: CliveW Date: 12/01/2006
PowerShell week, webcasts and downloads
I must have missed these at the time, still here is the link if you need to view them (they were...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/21/2006
Windows Server 2003 SP2 Release Candidate
All the details you'll ever need are here - this seems to a excellent summary and has many useful...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/17/2006
DPM v2 Webcast now available
I've blogged in the past on DPM v1, here is a Webcast you can view online or download on the new...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/15/2006
Technical whitepaper on RDC
I have no idea how many times a week or month I talk about RDC (it's lots!), so it's always great to...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/15/2006
Tech-Ed IT Forum
For those like me who couldn't make it, there are some videos going online at the Virtual Side,...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/14/2006
PowerShell v1.0 available
So Windows PowerShell v1.0 was declared RTM today and made available for download, the PowerShell...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/14/2006
Photosynth
I've had a play with this technology already, it's really good (IMO). What is it, you'll have to...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/09/2006
Windows Vista ships...
Well done to the Vista team! Windows Vista is RTM (Released To Manufacturing), see the PressPass...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/08/2006
Maps.Live.Com
Now that's a better name (IMO), local.live.com was ok - but https://maps.live.com is much easier to...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/07/2006
Pre-prepared VHD files are now available
I forgot to post this earlier, so I guess you've read this already on John's blog or from the press...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/06/2006