Checking your TFS Version and Extending Trials
As with Team Foundation Server 2005, we are publishing a utility that you can run on your TFS 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 (or can be requested from Customer Support). 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 or pre-release (Beta 2 or RC) install, an "Extend" button will show up in the lower left hand corner. Pressing it will extend the expiration another 30 days. For Trial Edition (not for pre-releases), 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. If they don'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
