At TechEd 2005 (US & Europe) a VPC with Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 was distributed to the attendees. Now this VPC has been made available for MSDN subscribers.
This self-extracting VPC - a 2,85 Gb iso-image download - is provided as-is, as governed by the terms of the included EULA. The VPC has following products installed:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (expires September 16, 2006)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 (expires May 1, 2006)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Redistributable Package Beta 2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview
- Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Live Communication Server 2003
This is definitely the fastest way to start testing the Visual Studio Team System features!
[Update] Team System VPC now available to more subscribers. More on Rob Caron's blog.