The Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release Candidate and Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Community-ready VPC image contains the software software preinstalled and configured for you.

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              • MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2005 TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER, BETA 3</UL> Installing the VPC image

              Run the VSTSRCTFSB3Demo.part01.exe file by double-clicking it to extract the following two files;

              1. VSTSRC1.vmc   (12kb)
                 • VSTSRC1.vhd   (9.2Gb)</OL> The default installation path is C:Program FilesVSTSRCTFSB3Demo and you are going to need to make sure you extract to an NTFS partition with around 10Gb available.</BLOCKQUOTE>

              **Getting started**
              
              > To log into the virtual machine you should use the following credentials (contained in the readme.txt file)
              > 
              > Username:    darren  
              > Password:    Pass@word1
              
              The recommended system requirements to use the VPC image are
              
                * PC with 2.0 gigahertz or faster processor 
                    * 1.5 GB RAM minimum 
                        * 10 GB available hard disk space 
                            * Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher video 
                                * DVD-ROM drive 
                                    * Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 software</UL> 
                                  I will post some information about my experiences with the VPC image after I have used ot for a little while.</p>