Brian Randell just announced his holiday surprise: New Virtual PC/Server and Hyper-V images with VSTS and TFS and a 12/31/2009 expiration date.

As part of the refresh and extending the expiration date, Brian have updated the images to include the following (naturally some items only appear in the “all-up” images):

• 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

You can download the images from:

• 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)

Read Brian’s full post here.