If you happen to be at TechEd, be certain to head over to the development cabanas (6-8) where DVDs of the complete and fully-installed Team System Beta 2 are being given out (currently by none other than Rob Caron whom I see has just blogged about this.) The DVD contains a Virtual PC instance with the data, app and client all installed and ready to use. It is a very hot commodity and I believe there are only 2,000 DVDs available, so get there soon!
There are some requirements:
- 2.0+ GHz CPU
- 1.5 GB RAM
- 10 GB disk space
- Virtual PC 2004 (of course)
If you aren't at TechEd, word is that MSDN will have the Virtual PC instance available for download “soon”.
I also heard (at today's “.NET Rocks” lunchtime recording with Team System PMs) that Microsoft is considering releasing differencing disk VPC images containing VSTS walkthroughs which you can essentially snap onto the base Team System image to get running quickly and easily.
Great news!
-Chris