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Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server. Learn more about Brian.
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Update: With Team Foundation Server 2010, you no longer need to download and run the TFSVersionDetection.exe tool as this functionality is baked into the Team Foundation Server administration console. See this post for more detail: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2010/05/07/extending-trials-of-tfs-2010.aspx
As with Team Foundation Server 2005, we are publishing a utility that you can run on your TFS 2008 server to determine what version of TFS it is and, if it is trial, how many days remain until it expires. It also enables you to extend trials by 30 days.
The program is called TFSVersionDetection.exe and is attached to this blog post (see the link at the bottom of this post). I recommend that you run the tool on the TFS server itself. You can run it from another machine and point it at the TFS server but it does a less thorough job of detection (due to permissions issues, etc). If you run it on the TFS server and press the "Check" button, you will see a screen that look something like the following.
If you are within 10 days of expiration of a Trial Edition install, an "Extend" button will show up in the lower left hand corner. Pressing it will extend the expiration another 30 days. The "Extend" button will show up again when your 30-day extension nears an end. Pressing it at this point will bring up a dialog that asks for a new Trial ID. It is possible to extend it another 30 days if absolutely necessary. To do this, you will need to contact your Microsoft sales rep and ask them to help you get a new Trial ID. You will need to supply your existing Trial ID when contacting us; this existing Trial ID is displayed by the version detection tool. If your sales rep doesn't understand the process, they can email me at bharry@microsoft.com or Brian Keller - briankel@microsoft.com and one of us will help them.
Brian
Now that Team Foundation Server 2008 keys/media/downloads are available, I'm seeing lots more questions
こんにちは。今、仙台に滞在中です。Brian Harry のブログに TFS のバージョンの確認と評価版の場合は、あと何日評価できるのかを表示してくれるツールが公開されています。 Checking your
Brian Harry has released a new version of the TFS Version Checking tool, more information below. http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/01/15/checking-your-tfs-version-and-extending-trials.aspx
Brian Harry has released a new version of the TFS Version Checking tool, more information below. http
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The TFS 2008 product keys have just been shipped and as I've just gone through the procedure of upgrading
This blog post has been replaced by a newer one that covers both TFS 2005 and TFS 2008: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/01/15/checking-your-tfs-version-and-extending-trials.aspx
Since Team Foundation Server 2008 was released end of November 2007 the early adopters which for some
Brian, does this also work for the VHDs that are available in download center.
Current VHDs are to be expired 1st of April which is very close now. As the complexity of setting up TFS is quite high i would be interested in getting a tool to extend exipiration of VHD to 90 days after my download.
Is that possible?
Thank you
Tim
No, I'm afraid it doesn't work for VHDs. Our VPC are actually set for Windows to expire, not for TFS to expire. There's no way to extend those that I know of.
Brian, Thanks for the post. It really helped.
If you can't connect to your TFS anymore one reason might be that the trial expired. To find you
If I don't upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 on the client side, but do upgrade the TFS: if I use Visual Studio 2005 to access a TFS 2008 server do I require new CALs? or are my existing Visual Studio 2005 CALs good enough?
Well, it's a common request. You started out using the Trial edition of Team Foundation Server 2008,
So when will Team Foundation Server 2008 be available? I thought it was supposed to be available by February, but it is now March, and the trials are expiring.