I have a TFS Administrator who does not develop or use Visual Studio. They only use TFS through the Web UI. Do they need to have an MSDN, all they are really doing is setting access levels.
TFS is licensed on a Server/CAL model. Thus, you need 1 Server license for the TFS server and 1 TFS CAL (client access license) for each user that will use TFS features.
That TFS CAL covers the usage no matter how the user accesses TFS (i.e. Visual Studio, Eclipse, Web Access client, Excel, MSProject, 3rd party tool, ect, etc).
Client access licenses (CALs) aren’t required for people who just access work items – assign them “Stakeholder” access, which is free.
So in your scenario, to manage the TFS they need CALs (client access license), Visual Studio/MSDN subscription is needed.
The two ways to acquire TFS CALs are:
Purchase a TFS User CAL
1 TFS CAL (and 1 TFS Server license) is included in each Visual
Studio/MSDN subscription. Thus, anyone who has an active MSDN
subscription assigned to them is covered with a TFS CAL.
Client access licenses (CALs) aren’t required for people who just
access work items – assign them “Stakeholder” access, which is
free.
Extensions to TFS such as Test Manager, Package Management,
and Private Pipelines require an additional purchase. Some TFS
Extensions are included with Visual Studio Enterprise subscriptions
and many others are free. Paid extensions can also be purchased
monthly, no Visual Studio subscription is required.
More details please refer below two blogs:
Understand TFS Licensing
Team Foundation Server 2018 Licensing
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I need to setup TFS 2017 for 20 developers/analysts. Usage will be mostly for code repository, therefore 1 server only with TFS 2017/8 and SQL 2017. I need to know the licensing requirements for TFS application only, I know for SQL. We plan on using SSRS, but not SharePoint. Will a Visual Studio subscription cover for the TFS license for server and does it have to be Enterprise or Professional subscription is OK? What license will be the most economical for the rest of 19 users?
Thank you,
Will a Visual Studio subscription cover for the TFS license for server
and does it have to be Enterprise or Professional subscription is OK?
Yes, Visual Studio subscriptions include a server license for TFS, plus a TFS CAL for the subscriber
What license will be the most economical for the rest of 19 users?
It's based on your real requirements. Client access licenses (CALs) aren’t required for people who just access work items – assign them “Stakeholder” access, which is free.
If the users want to work on codes, then they need client access licenses...
Extensions to TFS such as Test Manager, Package Management, and Private Pipelines require an additional purchase. Some TFS Extensions are included with Visual Studio Enterprise subscriptions and many others are free. Paid extensions can also be purchased monthly, no Visual Studio subscription is required.
Please see Team Foundation Server 2018 Licensing for details, it also applies to TFS 2017.
I am new to TFS admin configuration. I have installed a TFS 2018 in one of the server and now facing connectivity issue to MTM.
So I came to know that I should have a valid license and I also got the license.
Can anyone tell meWhere or How to upgrade my TFS 2018 License
Thanks
To license TFS 2018, you’ll need a TFS server license and a
Windows operating system license (Windows Server is best) for each
machine running TFS, plus a client access license for each person
connecting to TFS. Client access licenses (CALs) aren’t required for
people who just access work items – assign them “Stakeholder” access,
which is free.
Extensions to TFS such as Test Manager, Package Management, and
Private Pipelines require an additional purchase. Some TFS Extensions
are included with Visual Studio Enterprise subscriptions and many
others are free. Paid extensions can also be purchased monthly, no
Visual Studio subscription is required.
In your case, for every MSDN subscription that you own, you will also have a TFS server licenses. So, theoretically, you could install as many TFS servers as you have MSDN subscriptions.
To use the features MTM, you must have either a Visual Studio
Enterprise subscription, or have installed the Test Manager
extension available from Visual Studio Marketplace.
More details please refer: Connect Microsoft Test Manager to your team project and test plan
Besides, If you want to double confirm this and know more information about TFS license, you could call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific Time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detail information from there. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites to find contact information in their locations: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/
We have TFS Server license which got along with MSDN. But we need to have more CALS as more users need to access our TFS Server.
TFS CAL license cost more, when we look for an alternate we found that VSTS CALS can be used to access TFS On Premises Server.
Could any one can confirm whether it is right or wrong?
Yes, VSTS CAL's include access to TFS.
Team Foundation Server Pricing
Buy VSTS for TFS CALs. When you buy VSTS users (starting at $6/month), those same users have a TFS CAL and can connect to any TFS in your organization. If those users also need TFS extensions like Test Manager or Package Management, or if you need additional Private Pipelines for your team, you can purchase these through the Visual Studio Marketplace. All VSTS charges are month-to-month. See detailed instructions.
Currently using Team Foundation Server 2012 (version 11.0.50727.1), I have a developers' team working with the backlog and board pages, which is fine.
And I also have a bunch of clients, who are not developers. I would like to give them a sufficient access to be able to see the backlog and board pages. I'm understanding the "limited" rights are not enough.
What permissions are needed to be able to do that? Plus, if I need them to create/edit/delete work items, what licence do they need?
To use the agile planning features in TFS2012 (backlog management and boards) each person must be licensed with either Visual Studio Test Professional, Premium or Ultimate.
If you have CALs for those people you need to ensure their web access permissions are set to Full, via the admin panel.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/govdev/archive/2012/09/06/license-the-new-tfs-2012-agile-planning-boards.aspx
We are currently working on how to best manage our projects in TFS 2012. We are planning to create multiple team in order to manage concurrent iteration on the same project for distinct feature not released at the same time so we did two team (Project 1, Project 2).
The problem we currently have is how can I manage team member capacity when assigning a member to multiple Team. Is ther a way to view Capacity assign to a member for all current iteration of every team without navigating between multiple sprint?
What you want is not supported with the current tools, nor have we plans as for now to support this in the near future.
Feel free to add your suggestion to User Voice. We use that list to help prioritize our work.
This functionality is provided out-of-the-box and has been available since TFS 2008. You will require to install Microsoft Project Server onto the SharePoint implementation that you use with TFS (or another one if you like) and then configure the integration.
By installing Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server, project managers can use Microsoft Project Server to access up-to-date project status and resource availability across agile and formal software teams who work in Team Foundation. This integration enables data to flow from work items in Team Foundation Server (TFS) to tasks in enterprise project plans in Project Server. Project managers and software development teams can use the tools that they prefer, work at the level of precision that supports their needs, and share information transparently. After the two server products are configured, the synchronization engine maintains scheduling data and resource usage for the configured data in the mapped enterprise project plan and team project.
For TFS 2010 there is an Add-on, but for TFS 2012 it is included in the product.
Enable Data Flow Between Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Project Server
Microsoft® Team Foundation Server® 2010 and Microsoft Project Server® 2010 Integration Hyper-V Virtual Machine