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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

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