Migrating Team Foundation Server workgroup to the full version without a product key
Hi,
We've been using the workgroup edition of TFS since it became available
(using betas and RCs before that). We've now purchased the full
version, and are waiting for media to be delivered. The version that is
on its way apparently doesn't have a product key because we are using
volume licencing. I saw an MSDN article indicating that there was a way
I could get a product key to do an update via the maintenance screen.
Could someone tell me how I go about doing this?
Kevin
Thanks for that, looks like exactly what I'll need to do.
I was hoping there might have been a way to get the key from some
details on my purchase order, as the media is apparently 10 days away
due to the ineptitude of our purchasing department, and we really need
to upgrade from 5 users before that. Back to the fallback of
uninstalling workgroup and installing the 180 day trial over the top
until the media arrives, I guess :-(
Kev
Just tried this and this also works for upgrading from the Trial Version of Team Foundation Server to the actual Workgroup edition.
The licensing support people at Microsoft should be informed of this because I was just on the phone with them before finding out this thread. they were literally telling me the only way around it was to uninstall everything.
Okay, this is rather worrying, since we're hoping to start our new
developers on this tomorrow. I've just uninstalled the workgroup
edition of team foundation server, the team explorer and team build. I
then installed the 180 day trial, which installed uneventfully, but
when I tried to add new windows accounts to the "Team Foundation
Licenced Users" group I got told there was a limit of 5 users in the
workgroup edition. I'm also unable to add users to the "Valid Users"
group (button disabled).
Am I doing something wrong? If not, any suggestions to get this working?
Thanks,
Kev
You should be ok. The “Licensed Users” group is ignored by TFS Standard
Edition and Trial Edition.
(edit) You're also right that you can't add to "Valid Users" directly. Adding users to any other group automatically makes them valid users.
