Visual Studio Team System RC & Team Foundation Server Beta 3 VPC Available on MSDN Subscription

Sam Gentile - Visual Studio Team System Release Candidate VPC on MSDN

"I just noticed that the VSTS Release Candidate VPC image is up on MSDN Subscriber as they promised. This is a great thing as it will save myself and many others a boatload of time. ..."

You know I'm a huge fan of pre-built VPC images, and I've been waiting on this specific VPC for a bit now.

There's some interest in VSTS starting up at work, which is cool and will make getting the hardware for it much easier. So it's about time to start looking at this for real...

Sam hits it right on the head. VPC's like this save tons of people many hours of duplicated work... When playing/eval'ing new stuff, I want to start using it ASAP. I don't want to install an OS, install the servers, install the updates/patches, try to mount the DVD sized ISO on VPC (and then see that it's bigger than 2.2GB, so I have to extract all the files or burn it to DVD... bla, bla, bla), install the actual tool,etc, etc. An unattended background download and then unzip/mount is much easier.

"VPC Contents
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite RC
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 3
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Redistributable Package RC
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition "

Downloading now... 2886.8 MB total size (it seems slow today... 8+ hours to go... sigh).

Related Past Post XRef:
Team Foundation Beta 3 Virtual PC Coming Soon
MSDN Subscriptions - Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC

Update #1 11/14/2005 @ 8:14AM (PST):
Downloaded and expanded. The expanded files take 9GB...
Booted fine, all services started, etc.

Nice job MS.