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:...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 12/19/2013

RSAT tools are now available

  Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 with SP1 enables IT administrators to...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 04/04/2011

Guest clustering…

  Ever wondered what Microsoft supports when you run a guest OS in a cluster on VMware, Elden...

Author: CliveW Date: 07/30/2010

MAP 5.0

Checkout the ‘How-to’ videos as well on this site:...

Author: CliveW Date: 07/13/2010

Do you want Dynamic memory and RemoteFX?

…if you do then the beta of SP1 can be downloaded from here:...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 06/22/2010

Just be there

…you wont want to miss this https://www.desktopvirtualizationhour.com/   If you want to know...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 12/10/2009

Hyper-V resource

All you want to know about Hyper-V in one place on the Technet website...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 12/02/2009

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides—Release Announcement

Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services The...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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:...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 06/26/2009

iForum is getting close

Only a few days left now to book a place at iForum...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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....

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 04/08/2009

UK event: Citrix iForum in June

Reducing costs, improving efficiencies and increasing performance is a challenge for any...

Author: CliveW 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....

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 04/01/2009

Hyper-V security guide

The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 03/24/2009

It’s about time

After more than two years since the last post, Julius (my colleague) is finally blogging!!  He...

Author: CliveW 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:...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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:...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 12/09/2008

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing v2

This is the second release of the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool. This version completely...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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!),...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 11/03/2008

SCVMM 2008 RTM

Well done the SCVMM team, SCVMM has just RTM'd - see...

Author: CliveW 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...

Author: CliveW Date: 10/10/2008

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