Important Note: The Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine is Expiring Soon

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The Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine will stop working on September 10, 2012 and will not be updated. If you are still using that virtual machine, please upgrade to the Visual Studio Visual Studio 2012 RTM ALM virtual machine. The 2012 version is based on final RTM software and includes all of the sample data and hands-on-labs / demo scripts which were available in the 2010 ALM virtual machine.

The good news is that 2012 virtual machine uses a different build process which effectively gives it an infinite shelf life, since you can retain the original RAR files and extract a fresh copy whenever you need to. That fresh copy can be activated and will work for 180 days.