Visual Studio Team System & TFS VPCs Updated – Now all the updates, Power Tools, SP’s, 12/31/2009 expiration AND Hyper-V versions!

PluralSight - Happy Holidays and look what Santa’s brought

“…

I’m happy to report that the VSTS virtual machines are all updated with fresh bits and expiration dates. You now can test and evaluate (since these images are NOT licensed for production use) Team System 2008 with SP1.

First off, the new expiration date is December 31, 2009.

Second, we didn’t produce two images this time. We produced FOUR!

…

What’s different is that we’ve produced both Virtual PC 2007/Virtual Server 2005 R2 compatible images AND Hyper-V compatible images. Download the ones that make you happy!

…

the latest virtual machine additions or integration services components

all of the latest Windows Updates as of December 1, 2008

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite SP1

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1

Team Foundation Power Tools, October 2008 update

the latest MSSCCI provider

Team Explorer 2005 (this allows you to work with TFS from Visual Studio 2005 which is installed so that you can edit and customize TFS reports)

the GDR for the product formally known as Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition (aka Data Dude)

current Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and Background Info

…

Naturally at this point, you’re wondering, where are the goods? Here they are:
[GD: Click through for the download links… Didn’t want to leach their traffic ;]

VSTS “all-up” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)

TFS “only” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

VSTS “all-up” Hyper-V image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)

TFS “only” Hyper-V image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

…”

If you need a test/eval environment for TFS or VSTS, then these VM’s are a must have. 

Cool to see both Virtual PC/Server and Hyper-V versions. I wonder how long we’ll have to deal with both VM “formats” (i.e. wouldn’t it be cool with Windows 7 had Hyper-V baked in? ;)

 

Related Past Post XRef:
New Team Foundation Server 2008 VPC Released (with 12/31/2008 Expire date)