If you had downloaded the previous version of the virtual machines, then you are likely aware they are set to expire soon (12/15/2010).

Brian Keller announced yesterday (blog post here) the availability of a vm refresh (new expiration set for 6/1/2011).

What is part of the refresh?

Here is the excerpt from Brian’s post:

“ The version of this virtual machine which was refreshed on December 9, 2010, includes the following additions:
· Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2
· Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools (September 2010 Release)
· Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools (these are disabled in VS so that the screenshots of the hands-on-labs still match; you can quickly enable the Productivity Power Tools via Tools -> Extension Manager from within Visual Studio)
· Test Scribe for Microsoft Test Manager
· Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template
· All Windows Updates through December 8, 2010
· Lab Management GDR (KB983578)
· Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 pre-requisite hotfix (KB2403277)
· Microsoft Test Manager hotfix (KB2387011)
· Minor fit-and-finish fixes based on customer feedback
· A new expiration date of June 1, 2011”

The links to download the Virtual Machines are:

Hyper-V: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0198b64-4acb-4709-b07f-359fb4d523bc&displaylang=en

Windows Virtual PC (Win 7): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=509c3ba1-4efc-42b5-b6d8-0232b2cbb26e&displaylang=en