VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Peter Ritchie — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:23:01 GMT

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

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

Etienne's VSTS World — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:01:49 GMT

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

VS2008 Beta2 VPC expiring on 1st November

My VSTS Blog — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:53:53 GMT

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

La Virtual Machine di VS2008 Beta 2 scadr

Normal people bore me! — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:22:40 GMT

La Virtual Machine di VS2008 Beta 2 scadr

Orcas Beta 2 VPC expiration in a week

Daniel Moth — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:11:22 GMT

Orcas Beta 2 VPC expiration in a week

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

El Bruno — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:47:36 GMT

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

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

Ronan Geraghty's Weblog — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:49:12 GMT

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

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

MSDN Ireland Blog — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:49:14 GMT

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

VS2008User — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:42:53 GMT

Why not release VS2008 RTM instead?

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

Noticias externas — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:18:10 GMT

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

A Disappointed Early Adopter — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:32:15 GMT

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).

Consideracion con VS2008 Beta 2 Virtual PCs

Smartymobile — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:40:11 GMT

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

VSTS Links - 10/26/2007

Team System News — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:12:07 GMT

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

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

Amit Cohen-Berezin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:15:21 GMT

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Moreno Borsalino — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:32:41 GMT

Hi Jeff,

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Moreno Borsalino — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:35:21 GMT

Hi Jeff,

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

jeffbe — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:41:52 GMT

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

VS 2008 VPCs will expire on Nov 1st 2007

Maor David - Coding Adventures — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:39:15 GMT

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

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

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:50:25 GMT

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

VS2008 VPCs Expiring 11/1 - Backup Your Data Now

Jason N. Gaylord's Blog — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:51:36 GMT

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

VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

.net DEvHammer — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:31:55 GMT

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

Attention: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely!

Joteke's Blog — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:58:12 GMT

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

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

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:51:37 GMT

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

David Taylor — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:46:15 GMT

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.

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

jeffbe — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:32:26 GMT

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

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

Barry Gervin's Software Architecture Perspectives — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:21:16 GMT

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

VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Tomislav Bronzin [RD&MVP] — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:15:11 GMT

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

Expiration des VPCs Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

CoqBlog — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:22:26 GMT

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

VS 2008 VPC images expiring

Bill Blogs in C# — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:20:31 GMT

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

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

かるあのメモ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:10:35 GMT

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VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC Expiring on 1st Nov 2007

Infosys | Microsoft — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:02:16 GMT

VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC expiring prematurely

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

Dariusz quatscht — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:15:52 GMT

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

Gökhan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:59:51 GMT

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

TFS Beta 2 VPCs Expire November First

Steven Smith — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:53:25 GMT

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

re: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely

jeffbe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:08:05 GMT

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.

Trick or Treat - Watch those "Orcas" VPCs

Allan's Best Week Ever — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:43:05 GMT

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

Trick or Treat - Watch those "Orcas" VPCs

Noticias externas — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:21:35 GMT

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