Clive Watson's Blog
Clive Watson, Hybrid Cloud Technical Specialist, Microsoft UK
NYSE Moves to Windows Clusters...
I just came across this article on bink.nu (brilliant site btw), here is a snippet: Until a few...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/28/2006
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
James (Microsoft Forefront) mentioned this great document to our team this week, which offers a...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/28/2006
Exchange Management Shell
I'm surprised Brett didn't blog about this, but we released a guide to the shell features for...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/27/2006
Can you help with "Centro"?
Kevin asks for your help with "Centro", find out what he wants and what "Centro" is on his blog.
Author: CliveW Date: 10/25/2006
VHD format licence will change
You will see that the VHD licence is no longer royalty-free, from now on it will be OSP (Open...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/17/2006
Power Shell RC2 released
Get the download from here and more information on the PowerShell blog
Author: CliveW Date: 09/28/2006
Office Roundtable...a bit off topic but it impressed me
Take a look at this cool demo...I'd love to have one of these, I really hate it when I'm on a video...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/25/2006
NewsGator to Utilize IE7 RSS Feed Store
As a long time fan of NewsGator (which lets you keep your RSS feeds synchronized to a central...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/22/2006
Presentations with Windows Vista
The Windows Vista Team just blogged on a aspect of the Presentation mode in Vista - which allows you...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/12/2006
Local Live - new version
I've been a fan of local.live.com for a while, I particularly like the business search feature, it...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/12/2006
PowerShell video
I just found this great Technet video (60mins) which is a great overview for this technology, Brett...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/11/2006
Vista and file copies over high latency links
My colleague Julius (who is going for the world record for time left between blog posts!) has been...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/11/2006
Microsoft and Cisco NAC Interoperability
More details were released last week on how Microsoft NAP and Cisco NAC work together... News: Cisco...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/11/2006
SCVMM Part 11...did you miss it?
I was post dating my latest SCVMM blog entry as it was a long one, and adding screen shots takes me...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/03/2006
SCVMM Self-Service FAQ update
Thanks to Tony for SCVMM Self service information from the beta 1 FAQ. Lots of good information to...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/02/2006
Question - on IE6
I received this question in an email today, whilst it's not in my subject area - I think I have an...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/01/2006
More blogs to read...in case you don't have enough
Brett and the main MSDN PowerShell blog have had a similar tip recently (so it must be doubly...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/31/2006
SCVMM Part 11 (Template and Profiles)
In a prior post I promised more details on the template feature in SCVMM so here we go. The Template...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/31/2006
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta2 is now available
More details from Dugie and John. Also you can take a look at the main Virtual Server site where it...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/31/2006
SCVMM Summary and Diagram
Summary To date we have covered the following: Part 1: Initial Setup Part 2: Creation of a host...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/30/2006
SCVMM Part 10 (Remote Control)
As promised in the last post here is how you remotely manage the Virtual Machine you've just...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/30/2006
SCVMM Help files
Help file requests... <<<< to be added >>>>
Author: CliveW Date: 08/29/2006
Virtual Server and SCVMM - things you/I need to know repository
SCVMM FAQ Virtual Server FAQ Whats the difference between Virtual Server 2005 aqnd Windows Server...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/29/2006
SCVMM - Can you help the help?
I got an email from the technical writer for SCVMM help files over the weekend, she has been reading...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/29/2006
Vista Pre-RC1 Build Released
The Windows Vista Team Blog announced that a pre RC1 build 5536.16385 (to be precise) has had a...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/25/2006
SCVMM Part 9 (How to create a Virtual Machine)
Getting back to how to use SCVMM, I'll now walk you through one of the ways to create a Virtual...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/24/2006
Microsoft and Citrix expand partnership
Microsoft and Citrix are to collaborate on developing and marketing a new Citrix WANScaler™ branch...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/23/2006
SCVMM Part8 (PowerShell)
If you know a bit about PowerShell this post wont enlighten you further, so you might stop reading...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/21/2006
Quad-core
At least once a week, often once a day someone will walk past and in a conversation cores (dual or...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/18/2006
SCVMM- Part7 (PowerShell)
As you should be aware SCVMM like Exchange 2007 is based on PowerShell (previously known as...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/17/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 6
Host Properties For each host, that you can select in the GUI, right-click to look at the properties...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/16/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 5
The following blog will show the state information and context filtering that is achievable in...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/15/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 4
In this post I'll detail how you add an existing host into SCVMM, basically the easiest way is to...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/14/2006
Windows Live Writer Beta1 now availble
If you need a WYSIWYG blog tool (for free) then this may be the one for you, I've been using it for...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/14/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 3
The following screen grab shows a single running Virtual Server host machine in the “Infrastructure...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/12/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 2
One of the great SCVMM features is the ability to simply, create a "Host Group" under the "Managed...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/11/2006
Two new features for MSCS – I just noticed
This feature came up in conversation earlier this week, it was on the periphery of things for me to...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/09/2006
New Windows Server information from today
Two blogs I noticed today from the Windows Server team were, some more details on Windows Server...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/01/2006
TechReady stuff...
Last week was TechReady3 in Seattle for a few Microsoft colleagues and I (5000+ I think), it’s the...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/01/2006
Sysinternals acquired!!!
Kevin has all the details - I must say I never thought I'd see these guys selling up and joining...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/19/2006
Microsoft and XenSource to Develop Interoperability for Windows Server “Longhorn” Virtualization
...another subject I wish I have time to blog about today! More details once again on PressPass:...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/18/2006
Softricity are now onboard - its official
I really need to write more about this confirmed acquisition (but I'm in a rush this morning) so...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/18/2006
FolderShare - what a great tool
If you haven't tried FolderShare yet, it's part of the Windows Live Service, take a look and see...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/14/2006
Technet Magazine now available in the UK
There is now a UK Technet Magazine (or will be shortly), you can subscribe here:...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/13/2006
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter - new announcement for Virtualisation
As you may have seen by now (John got there before me again!), Windows Server 2003 Datacenter has...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/13/2006
Virtual PC is now free as well...
As John, Keith and others are reporting Virtual PC is now free, the download and full details are...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/12/2006
Normal service to resume...
As you may have noticed I’ve been on holiday for a few weeks...and been busy on a few pieces of work...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/12/2006
NAP webcast
NAP continues to be a hot topic, see this very recent webcast by Joseph Davies (also link to a...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/14/2006