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The Microsoft Visual Studio ALM VM and the accompanying hands-on-labs are now updated to Visual Studio 2017 (15.5) and Team Foundation Server 2018.
The virtual machine contains the following pre-configured software:
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Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation
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Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (15.5)
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Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018
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Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
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Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2016
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Sample users and data required to support hands-on-lab scripts which accompany this download.
You can get access to the virtual machine the following ways:
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Download the Virtual Machine - You can download the virtual machine, if you prefer to use it offline. Please see below for instructions to download the VM.
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Try it on Technet Virtual Labs - Coming soon We will be publishing the labs to TechNet so that you can try them online from the convenience of your browser. No downloads, No setup required!
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Run it on Azure - If you prefer to run the VM on Azure, you can simply upload the VHD to your Azure storage and create a VM from the VHD. Thanks to Pieter Gheysens who has written a PowerShell script to create VM instances based on the ALM VM. His blog has more details.
If you want to and customize and upload the VHD yourself, please see this article for step-by-step instructions - Create a Windows VM from a specialized disk.
The size of the download is about 18 GB. It is recommended that you use a download manager like Free download manager or Download Accelerator Plus.
These utility provide:
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Multiple simultaneous download streams for (usually) a much faster download experience.
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Auto-resume support for interrupted downloads
Using Free download manager
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Download and install Free download manager if you currently do not have one installed
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Open and select all the download URLs from the text file. Press CTRL+C to copy the selected URLs to clipboard.
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Select Menu - Paste URLs from clipboard
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When the download is complete, double-click the .exe file to self-extract the RAR files to a folder
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Read the “ Working with the …” document to start using the VM
There are quite a number of important instructions on how to use the VM including activating the VM, taking snapshots/check points, etc., documented. We highly recommend that you read through the Working with the Visual Studio 2017 (Winter Update) ALM Virtual Machine document prior to using the VM, even if you may have used the earlier version of the VM.
Note that The VM has about 15 GB of free hard disk space. Should you want to increase the size of the disk, you will need to do so before creating snapshots/check points. You can refer this article on TechNet for instructions on expanding the virtual hard disk.
Here are the 2018 hands-on-labs for Team Foundation Server. If you want to access the labs offline, you can download them as MS Word documents from here
If you wish to download the previous versions of the Visual Studio ALM VM - here are the links:
- Version 2017 - VM | [Lab documents](https://almvm2017.blob.core.windows.net/vm2017/VisualStudio ALMVM 2017 Labs.zip)
- Version 2015 Update 2: VM | Lab documents