Deploy Visual Studio 2008 via AD and GPO

Enterprise Deployment for Visual Studio 2008 using Active Directory http://blogs.msdn.com/joy/archive/2008/12/10/the-following-script-can-be-used-for-visual-studio-2008-deployment.aspx

Deploy Visual Studio 2008 Professional 9.x package
http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=1410

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008Administrator Deployment Readme
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/0/490EADD1-19C0-47F9-9748-E901C926F925/adminreadme2008.htm

MS forum support for VS2008:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/category/visualstudio/

VS2008 sp1 readme

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=119522

VS 2008 Service Pack 1 - Docs and Installation

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2008/05/18/10418.aspx

VS2008 SP1 Beta fails to add "new item - ADO.NET Entity Data Model" Item Template

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vs2008sp1beta/thread/de81a1f4-a31f-428a-bbd2-a286cdffb29a/

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_21089219.html