Clive Watson's Blog
Clive Watson, Hybrid Cloud Technical Specialist, Microsoft UK
Microsoft Azure Stack TP1 - our top tips
UPDATE: I have now moved our UK Azure Stack content to our new team site:...
Date: 06/08/2016
Summary of Windows Server 2016 TP5 content
Windows Server and System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5 is now available Windows Server 2016 is...
Date: 05/12/2016
Anyone still reading this Blog of mine?
Do people still read blogs, I'm considering starting up again - Hybrid Cloud, Azure Stack and Azure...
Date: 05/11/2016
Links I post to people on a daily basis
Remote Desktop Manager https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21101 Windows Server...
Date: 12/19/2013
RSAT tools are now available
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 with SP1 enables IT administrators to...
Date: 04/08/2011
ISCSI Target 3.3 for all Windows
The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target has been available for production use as part of Windows Storage...
Date: 04/04/2011
Guest clustering…
Ever wondered what Microsoft supports when you run a guest OS in a cluster on VMware, Elden...
Date: 07/30/2010
MAP 5.0
Checkout the ‘How-to’ videos as well on this site:...
Date: 07/13/2010
Do you want Dynamic memory and RemoteFX?
…if you do then the beta of SP1 can be downloaded from here:...
Date: 07/12/2010
Private Cloud - SCVMM SSP v2.0
There have been a few names over the last few months for this technology, the final name is now...
Date: 07/12/2010
RDVH Capacity planning
A common ask has been for a Microsoft produced scalability paper for RDVH, now we have one… This...
Date: 06/22/2010
Just be there
…you wont want to miss this https://www.desktopvirtualizationhour.com/ If you want to know...
Date: 03/17/2010
Network Configuration for Live Migration
Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2 This guide describes how to configure your network to use the...
Date: 02/25/2010
How to install Windows from a USB drive
Windows 7 (and other OS’s can be installed in this manner); I’m sure you’ve seen one of the many...
Date: 02/25/2010
RDSHC planning doc
Not sure what RDSHC is, then take a look at the RDS Hosts Capacity Planning document Remote Desktop...
Date: 02/10/2010
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1
This release of the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool completely replaces version 2.0. Version...
Date: 12/10/2009
Hyper-V resource
All you want to know about Hyper-V in one place on the Technet website...
Date: 12/10/2009
Do you want to script RDS for VDI
If so the Technet Script Center has plenty of resources, view them here Some scripts I’d like to...
Date: 12/08/2009
Want to configure Server Core R2?
…in that case you’ll need https://www.codeplex.com/CoreConfig It is completely open source so...
Date: 12/02/2009
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides—Release Announcement
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services The...
Date: 12/01/2009
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 now available
If you need these tools and if your reading this you probably do, the the RSAT tools are now at RTM...
Date: 08/12/2009
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
I couldn’t be clearer than that, more details here and from Presspass Technorati Tags:...
Date: 07/22/2009
Linux drivers for the community (GPLv2)
Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the...
Date: 07/20/2009
RDS virtualized on Hyper-V
This is a recent post I missed (thanks for the pointer Julius) from the Remote Desktop Services Team...
Date: 06/26/2009
iForum is getting close
Only a few days left now to book a place at iForum...
Date: 05/29/2009
Processor Compatibility Mode and Live Migration
64LP and Processor Compatibility Mode were discussed yesterday on the Windows Server blog, AMD have...
Date: 05/12/2009
Happy holiday Windows
So Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available… As part of today’s news, Microsoft Corp....
Date: 05/11/2009
RC for Windows Server 2008 R2 & Hyper-V server R2
The Release Candidate (RC) is now available @ https://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2008R2...
Date: 05/06/2009
Easy SCVMM tracing
If you've ever had to follow Cheng’s definitive article on setting up SCVMM tracing you know it’s a...
Date: 04/08/2009
UK event: Citrix iForum in June
Reducing costs, improving efficiencies and increasing performance is a challenge for any...
Date: 04/02/2009
MDOP 2009 now available
All the details can be found on the Official MDOP blog and here on the main virtualization site....
Date: 04/02/2009
How Microsoft IT does…virtualisation
I finally caught up with some reading this week, this was an article I meant to look at when...
Date: 04/01/2009
Hyper-V security guide
The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and...
Date: 03/31/2009
Linux mouse thanks to project Satori
Ever run a Linux OS on Hyper-V and wanted mouse support, now thanks to our friends at Citrix you can...
Date: 03/24/2009
It’s about time
After more than two years since the last post, Julius (my colleague) is finally blogging!! He...
Date: 03/23/2009
SCVMM 2008 R2 beta…now available
To download, simply go to our site on Connect and sign in with your Live Id. Call to action:...
Date: 03/13/2009
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Security Guide – beta
There is now a solution accelerator for Hyper-V security…something all of you should in interested...
Date: 02/06/2009
HP on Hyper-V NIC teaming and SCVMM Powershell
Patrick at HP has made public a whitepaper from HP on guidance for NIC teaming and Hyper-V, whilst...
Date: 02/03/2009
The long awaited SCVMM 2008 Management Pack
The wait is over, download from here Feature Summary This management pack is tightly integrated with...
Date: 01/28/2009
Hyper-V Monitor Gadget v4.1
I’ve been using this for quite a while, version 4.1 adds some nice extra features, my favorites are:...
Date: 01/21/2009
MVUG UK meeting in January
I hope to see many of you at this event, details are here https://www.mvug.co.uk/. There are sessions...
Date: 12/09/2008
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing v2
This is the second release of the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool. This version completely...
Date: 11/26/2008
More from PDC and virtualization
Don't be fooled by the title of these two sessions from Taylor (especially the "Enabling Test...
Date: 11/03/2008
Running Active Directory in a Virtual machine + SQL
Ok...so in the last 3 weeks I've been asked this numerous times (and to save emailing it again!),...
Date: 11/03/2008
Win7, up to 256 cores, SQL and boot from VHD
Mark speaks about new kernel constructs in Windows 7 and the dismantling of the Dispatcher Spin Lock...
Date: 11/03/2008
MAP 3.2 now available
https://blogs.technet.com/mapblog/ for all the news and features, in brief the new additions are: SQL...
Date: 11/03/2008
"Needs Attention" status on SCVMM 2008 RTM
If you encounter this error (and haven't seen the workaround on other blogs), please make sure you...
Date: 11/03/2008
SCVMM 2008 RTM
Well done the SCVMM team, SCVMM has just RTM'd - see...
Date: 10/21/2008
The best way to learn about Virtualization....
...Attend a real-world event (in the UK) Virtualisation has gained much attention across...
Date: 10/10/2008