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Clive Watson, Hybrid Cloud Technical Specialist, Microsoft UK
PDC 2008 - What is PDC all about?
This is the Software + Services PDC - but what else will be talking about, what surprises are in...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/23/2008
Microsoft Virtualization User Group UK
I hope to see many of you at this event on Tuesday, details are here https://www.mvug.co.uk/ ...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/22/2008
MAP 3.2 beta - sign-up now
Hopefully you've seen this announcement by now - if not take a look. Personally I'm looking...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/16/2008
In case you missed Live Migration on Monday
Bob Muglia showcases the Hyper-V Live Migration platform. Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 8, 2008. You can...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/10/2008
Measuring Performance on Hyper-V
Thanks to Julius for the below link (under Biztalk 2006 R2 guidance!)...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/09/2008
Server Core Configuration tool - now available
Some of you may remember a free tool that you could use to configure Windows Server 2008 core...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/09/2008
Useful very useful...
https://www.virtualizationfeed.com/rss.aspx how did I manage without this RSS summary before? ...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/04/2008
Hyper-V and it's ecosystem
I'm sure you've seen many post on Hyper-V in the past few days...I've also noticed a few posts...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/02/2008
Hyper-V !
Author: CliveW Date: 06/26/2008
Environment
This web site has recently gone live https://www.microsoft.com/environment/ - there is lots of great...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/26/2008
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption
BitLocker allows as you know Operating System boot and disk drive encryption. How you can use this...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/25/2008
Performance tuning WS08 and Hyper-V
If you want to and who wouldn't...take a look at the new Windows Server 2008 Tuning guide. Head down...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/18/2008
Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Beta has been updated
I'm sure you've already subscribed, if not.... System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008;...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/17/2008
TechNet Webcast: Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machines with WMI and Windows
TechNet Webcast: Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machines with WMI and Windows PowerShell (Level 300) Event...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/16/2008
MAP 3.1 beta with Hyper-V support
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (or MAP) is the next-generation version of the...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/13/2008
SCVMM 2008 beta (Update for Hyper-V RC1)
If you go to https://connect.microsoft.com the update that allows SCVMM to work with Hyper-V RC1 is...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/10/2008
SCVMM 2008 Announced
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has been announced at MMS:...
Author: CliveW Date: 04/29/2008
UK Launch
https://www.microsoft.com/uk/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx On 19 March, the ICC in Birmingham (UK)...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/12/2008
SCVMM admin console and ActiveX
I recently cam across a sequence of events that confused me with the SCVMM Administrators console...
Author: CliveW Date: 03/12/2008
Do you need a MAP?
The answer is yes! More details here The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team has just released the...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/27/2008
DPM explained in flash
DPM 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 backups explained here:...
Author: CliveW Date: 02/04/2008
Hyper-V WMI interfaces are now available
Good news this morning.... The virtualization team is pleased to announce the public beta release of...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/24/2008
15mins...does this count?
If your supposed to get 15mins of fame, I must have racked up a few minutes towards my total (shot...
Author: CliveW Date: 01/22/2008
Hyper-V beta is now available
No doubt you've already seen this announcement, being keen all things virtualization people......
Author: CliveW Date: 12/13/2007
New Podcast site (to me anyway)
An email today mentioned a website I'd not heard of before; there are some big names in Windows...
Author: CliveW Date: 12/10/2007
Going Virtually Green
Dugie kindly pushed out some great stats last week (which I forgot to blog about at the time...it's...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/12/2007
Hyper-V not WSv
As you may of heard, WSv has had a name change to Hyper-V Here are a few links:...
Author: CliveW Date: 11/12/2007
Windows Virtualization Hypercall APIs are OSP
Great news from Jeff on the Virtualization team blog, here is a short summary you can get the full...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/24/2007
Virtual Server UK community...
If you're a Virtual Server user in the UK, and if you're a TDM (Technical Decision Maker), Architect...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/22/2007
Readers question on SCVMM
Lee emailed me to ask: I've been interested in trying out some of the Microsoft Virtualization...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/19/2007
SCVMM - straight from the top
Rakesh Malhotra - Group Program Manager for SCVMM has started to blog. It looks like you'll get some...
Author: CliveW Date: 10/12/2007
Virtualisation webcasts
Thanks John for posting all the links, that should keep us all busy! These are the webcasts...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/25/2007
Windows Server RC0 - yes it is...
So that's confirmed then RC0 of Windows Server (with those WSv/viridian bits!) is now available to...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/25/2007
Is Windows Server 2008 RC0 available next week?
According to this source Mike Neil - General Manager of Virtualization, said "We expect the release...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/21/2007
More cookbooks anyone?
Exactly a month ago we had the first Virtual Server R2 SP1 cookbooks, the next course :-) has just...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/20/2007
SCVMM Evaluation version
As Tony says the evaluation pieces are now available, if you want a 120day trial version already...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/17/2007
Quickstartgetvirtual
Thanks to Ben for this one, the Quickstart site is for Microsoft gold partners This is what it is...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/14/2007
WSv in 10minutes and...
Keith has provided a screencast/blogcast (or whatever you wish to call it) on Windows Server...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/14/2007
SCVMM How to videos
How To Videos are brief walkthroughs of specific features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/10/2007
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) RTM's
Finally SCVMM RTM's. It seems like ages ago (18mths+) since I first discovered that project...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/06/2007
Webcasts, performance and Live Writer
VolkerW posted the following links to some upcoming Webcasts on Windows Server 2008 and...
Author: CliveW Date: 09/06/2007
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 cookbooks
"These are the first of several cookbooks to help SI partner consultants get up to speed to deploy...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/20/2007
New and improved Virtualization website
The main website has undergone a major overhaul - take a look here:...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/14/2007
Paravirtualization...what's that?
In the course of a working week with customers and partners the term 'Paravirtualization' comes up...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/08/2007
Vista improves
As you've probably seen Vista has received a few improvements available in these KB articles. I...
Author: CliveW Date: 08/08/2007
Normal service will...
....resume Sorry for the blog drought in the last month or so, a combination of holiday, work events...
Author: CliveW Date: 07/30/2007
VMRCPlus now available outside of Microsoft
I've always tried to use the tools available that ship with products but sometimes a better...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/28/2007
WHS goes RC
One of my favorite pieces of software (or should that be feature rich OS) has just hit Release...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/12/2007
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is now available
The wait is over, you can now download from here. Extra details can be found here and in the FAQ...
Author: CliveW Date: 06/11/2007
Quest announces support for PowerShell
Thanks to Kurt (at Quest) for this pointer, I had a quick play with this tool yesterday...may be a...
Author: CliveW Date: 05/31/2007