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VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire on Thursday, November 1, 2007, much earlier than we had originally expected.  Since the timeout is at the OS level, we cannot automatically extend the timeout period.  As such we are currently in the process of reissuing the VPCs and expect to make them available early next week.

In the meantime, for anyone that has stored information in TFS that they need to access moving forward, we recommend that you immediately backup the TFS databases in preparation to move them to the updated VPCs.  For information to complete these steps, please refer to the documentation on Moving Team Foundation Server.

We're still working on additional guidance to respond to this situation.  As more information becomes available, I'll post it here. 

Update  - please see my latest post on this topic:  http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/10/27/update-on-expiring-vs2008-beta2-vpcs.aspx

Published Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:00 AM by jeffbe
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# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Ouch, makes me glad I didn't use the VPCs

Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:23 PM by Peter Ritchie

# Visual Studio 2008 B2 VPC from Microsoft to expire Nov 1st

Visual Studio 2008 B2 VPC from Microsoft to expire Nov 1st

Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:01 PM by Etienne's VSTS World

# VS2008 Beta2 VPC expiring on 1st November

If you have downloaded the VS2008 Beta2 VPC from MSDN you need to be aware that this VPC is due to expire

Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:53 PM by My VSTS Blog

# La Virtual Machine di VS2008 Beta 2 scadr

La Virtual Machine di VS2008 Beta 2 scadr

Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:22 PM by Normal people bore me!

# Orcas Beta 2 VPC expiration in a week

Orcas Beta 2 VPC expiration in a week

Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:11 PM by Daniel Moth

# [VS2008] Demo VPC rest in peace (a partir del 01/11)

Buenas si como yo, utilizas las VPC con Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 que están disponibles para su descarga

Friday, October 26, 2007 2:47 AM by El Bruno

# Action required: VS 2008 VPCs will expire on Nov 1st 2007

VS 2008 VPCs will expire (prematurely) on Nov 1st 2007. This is much earlier than expected/intended.

Friday, October 26, 2007 3:49 AM by Ronan Geraghty's Weblog

# Action required: VS 2008 VPCs will expire on Nov 1st 2007

VS 2008 VPCs will expire (prematurely) on Nov 1st 2007. This is much earlier than expected/intended.

Friday, October 26, 2007 3:49 AM by MSDN Ireland Blog

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Why not release VS2008 RTM instead?

Friday, October 26, 2007 4:42 AM by VS2008User

# Microsoft Premature Expiry Dates - Will they never learn? (VS2008 VPC Beta 2)

I've lost count of the number of times I've gotten screwed by a beta timing out mere days or

Friday, October 26, 2007 5:18 AM by Noticias externas

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

You can't be serious?

Do you know how much money/time it takes to set up a dev env for a team of developers? Is Microsoft (who had a US$5.92Bn profit in the past ninty days) going to send its staff around to early adopter customers to do this free of charge, or else pay its customers to do the work?

Guess not, but at least you could think what to do to make it less of a disaster....

One suggestion would be to release the new VPC with Visual Studio 2008 RC. This is available to some folks outside Redmond - why not open it up a bit more. At least then people - your customers - who have to go to all this effort of re-installing get something in return - turning a terrible mistake into a good thing. It is a bit silly releasing beta 2 bits that are months old when a better/more up to date build, RC, is ready. It would mean the RC bits would get much better testing - and when RTM arrives it is of a better quality (we do remember the quality problems with VS2005 RTM, and no one wants to see a repeat of that).

Friday, October 26, 2007 5:32 AM by A Disappointed Early Adopter

# Consideracion con VS2008 Beta 2 Virtual PCs

Según lo que dice esta nota las Virtual PC de VS2008están expirando antes de lo pensado. Por lo que se

Friday, October 26, 2007 9:40 AM by Smartymobile

# VSTS Links - 10/26/2007

Jeff Beehler on Check out the new Tester Center on MSDN and VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely. Martin...

Friday, October 26, 2007 10:12 AM by Team System News

# שימו לב - VS 2008 VPC עומד לפוג בטרם עת...

מאז משיקה מיקרוסופט את מוצרי הפיתוח שלה יחד עם מערכות וירטואליות הרבה יותר נוח להשתמש בהם. כאשר סביבת

Friday, October 26, 2007 10:15 AM by Amit Cohen-Berezin

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Hi Jeff,

I wonder whether is possible simply to update the virtual machine OS to a regular version.

Friday, October 26, 2007 10:32 AM by Moreno Borsalino

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Hi Jeff,

I wonder whether is possible simply to update the virtual machine OS to a regular version.

Friday, October 26, 2007 10:35 AM by Moreno Borsalino

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Moreno -

This is an option I am actively investigating.  My understanding is that you can upgrade a trial version of Windows Server 2003 if you have the proper license.  Before I broadly recommend doing this, I want to try it out myself so I have confidence in the solution.  If it works, this might be the best solution for many.  

Stay tuned.  

Thanks,

jeff

Friday, October 26, 2007 10:41 AM by jeffbe

# VS 2008 VPCs will expire on Nov 1st 2007

If you are using the VPC provided by Microsoft to evaluation Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server

Friday, October 26, 2007 12:39 PM by Maor David - Coding Adventures

# Orcas Beta 2 VPC's to Expire November 1, 2007

I use one of the Beta 2 VPC's regularly, and so I was interested to learn that it will expire prematurely

Friday, October 26, 2007 3:50 PM by Charlie Calvert's Community Blog

# VS2008 VPCs Expiring 11/1 - Backup Your Data Now

I just read a post stating that the Visual Studio 2008 VPCs are expiring on November 1st, 2007. It is

Friday, October 26, 2007 4:51 PM by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

# VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

From Jeff Beehler, something to be aware of , particularly if you're using Team Foundationation Server

Friday, October 26, 2007 9:31 PM by .net DEvHammer

# Attention: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely!

In case you use VS2008 Beta 2 VPS, you should note that Visual Studio 2008 VPCs are expiring on November

Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:58 AM by Joteke's Blog

# VS2008 VPCs Expiring November 1st - Have a nice day!

  "We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release

Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:51 AM by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Holy crap batman - this is not good!

Hopefully you can just release the RC version instead.

Otherwise, we all have MSDN licenses, so if it is possible to upgrade the VPC server license to an MSDN subscription license for Beta2 let us know the steps.

Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:46 AM by David Taylor

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

It is possible to upgrade the VPC server licenses so if you have a MSDN subscriptions, you should be able disable the timeout by installing a fully licensed version of Windows Server.  Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/10/27/update-on-expiring-vs2008-beta2-vpcs.aspx.

Thanks,

jeff

Saturday, October 27, 2007 1:32 PM by jeffbe

# Don't let your VS2008 Beta2 VPC turn into a Pumpkin on Halloween at Midnight

Jeff Beehler blogs here and here that the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPCs are prematurely expiring on

Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:21 PM by Barry Gervin's Software Architecture Perspectives

# VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

If you are like me METRO trainer or just developer that installed Visual Studi Beta 2 and started to

Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:15 AM by Tomislav Bronzin [RD&MVP]

# Expiration des VPCs Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Ceux qui ont appris que les machines virtuelles Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 allaient expirer prématuremment

Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:22 AM by CoqBlog

# VS 2008 VPC images expiring

We interrupt this blog for an important public service announcement. Microsoft has been telling folks

Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:20 AM by Bill Blogs in C#

# Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 の VPC版 11/1 で期限切れ

色々なところで出ていました。 Update on expiring VS2008 Beta2 VPCs VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:10 PM by かるあ のメモ

# VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC Expiring on 1st Nov 2007

VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC expiring prematurely

Monday, October 29, 2007 12:02 AM by Infosys | Microsoft

# Wichtiger Hinweis: VS 2008 Beta 2 VPCs nur bis zum 01.11.07 lauffähig!!!

Habe dies gerade auf dem Blog von Jeff Beehler gelesen. Die Virtual PC Images die man im Rahmen der Visual

Monday, October 29, 2007 4:15 AM by Dariusz quatscht

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Jeff,

Please check this to see if it's a global solution to the problem:

http://altinoren.com/PermaLink,guid,7c26bba3-f2ed-4aaf-a883-c368e1ab4a7a.aspx

Monday, October 29, 2007 8:59 AM by Gökhan

# TFS Beta 2 VPCs Expire November First

In case you haven't seen this news from last Friday, the TFS Beta 2 Virtual PC images have an operating

Monday, October 29, 2007 9:53 AM by Steven Smith

# re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Gokhan -

I would strongly advise against changing the system time on the VPC if you're using TFS as TFS counts on time always moving forward.  You cannot make a check in or save a work item with an earlier date than the last one for obvious reasons.  So, if you're using the VPC in production, you could get yourself into a situation where you can't check in which would obviously be problematic.

Monday, October 29, 2007 10:08 AM by jeffbe

# Trick or Treat - Watch those "Orcas" VPCs

Trick! We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:43 PM by Allan's Best Week Ever

# Trick or Treat - Watch those "Orcas" VPCs

Trick! We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:21 PM by Noticias externas

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