my license to the Community Ed just expired. Wondering how I can update the license without upgrading to 4 or 5, which I have been told will result in losing old branches with dynamic inheritance. Thanks in advance!!
The Plastic SCM support have contacted you in order to help with your license issue and renew your CE license.
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As part of a server move, we'll be transferring our TFS and its SQL back-end. Can someone tell me if this is possible, and if so, what order we should be doing the migration vs upgrade? Would it be best to do the upgrade in-place before moving hardware/domain? Are there any particular pitfalls I should be wary of?
Details:
Moving TFS2010 to TFS2018 (potentially via 2013.5)
Moving SQL Server 2008 R2 to 2017
All moves will be done to new hardware on a new domain
Build and work item compatibility is not a concern, as we use TFS only for version control
Direct upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 is supported from TFS 2012 and newer. If your TFS deployment is on TFS 2010 or earlier, you will need to perform some interim steps before upgrading to TFS 2018 Update 2. Please see the chart below for more information.
Can someone tell me if this is possible, and if so, what order we should be doing the migration vs upgrade?
Yes. You can upgrade from TFS 2010 to TFS 2018. But you have to upgrade to TFS 2012 and newer, then upgrade to TFS 2018. You could refer to the link below:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/tfs-server/upgrade/tfs-2005-to-2015?view=tfs-2015&viewFallbackFrom=tfs-2018
And, changing the hardware is a restoration-based move, and you should never combine the two move types. First complete the hardware move, and then change the environment: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/tfs-server/admin/move-across-domains?view=tfs-2015v
Would it be best to do the upgrade in-place before moving hardware/domain?
You could do in place upgrade, or move to new hardware. If you're upgrading in place, consider doing a dry run of your upgrade in a pre-production environment, and make sure the system environment is meet.
Are there any particular pitfalls I should be wary of?
Before upgrade, you can read this article first, and be sure you have full backup of your database.
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 are attempting to move from TFS 2015 to TFS 2018 On Premise. For TFS 2015 we received physical media with a SQL Server 2014 Standard install cd and license key. For TFS 2018 we had to go through Microsoft Volume Licensing and have our TFS install media but no media or license for SQL Server 2017 Standard. Has anyone else updated and how did you license SQL Server 2017?
Edit: For those saying I did not research, there is no information on Microsoft's pages for this. This is the closest you get:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/tfs-server/install/dual-server
Paid copies of Team Foundation Server come with a license to SQL Server Standard for use with TFS. The Team Foundation Server pricing page explains the details. If you use the license that's included with TFS, you can only use it for the TFS databases.
We are trying to figure out WHERE to go to get this license because it is not on our volume licensing account where the TFS license is.
Since the question is a license issue, you can 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. You can also visit the following site for more information and support on licensing issues:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/mplahome.mspx
Our IT resource eventually found the SQL Server iso download on the volume licensing page. Thank you for your help.
We have a production JIRA server running on an old CentOS 5 box that needs to be upgraded or better yet trashed and renewed. Anyway, we also have a JIRA license that our local Atlassian support experts keep telling us to get renewed or it will prevent us from upgrading to JIRA v7.
Now, the version of JIRA we want to upgrade to is 7.1.4, which came out before our license expired last August. And the Atlassian License FAQ seems to say it's a perpetual license, not one that will expire and prevent us from using the app.
I read somewhere in the atlassian documentation that the JIRA v7 upgrades requires a valid support license - that it won't upgrade at all if the current product license is expired. But everywhere else the license documentation seems to say that if the version I'm are upgrading to was released while my license is valid then I should be able to upgrade to it.
Before I dive into the server (well...the test instance of that server) and start changing things I thought I'd ask around a bit to see.
From experience: you need a valid license if you want to upgrade your JIRA instance.
The JIRA upgrade guide also mentions this as one of the first things to check before you start your upgrade:
Check your license - Verify that your license support period is still valid.
You should always be able to run a version that was released before your maintenance expired. Whether some automatic updater will install it for you is another question. You can always install 7.1.4 without a license, and then add your license to it.
Is there any way to export TFS/VS Online?
We need to import the data to our onpremise environment.
We are running Windows Server 2012 R2 with TFS
AFAIK there is no free tool that can help you with migration from VSO (Visual Studio Online) to TFS (Team Foundation Server)
OpsHub has a paid product that should allow you to do this though.
http://www.opshub.com/main/index.php/products/oim
They have a free version of their tool to migrate from TFS on prem into VSO. Which seems to have been sponsored by Microsoft. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/05/14/migrating-on-premises-tfs-to-vs-online.aspx
Microsoft enabled this for a short while, but it is no longer available. There is a chance they will enable this again in the future. See this blog by Brian Harry for more details on the Export feature (about halfway down the post): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/02/21/vs-online-early-adopter-program-extended-to-may-7-2014.aspx
You can use the TFS Integration Tools to move your data from VSO to TFS. I have only done this once but it is possible. The TFS Integration Tools are however not hugely friendly and I would recommend contacting an expert 😊
http://nakedalm.com/migration-from-tf-service-to-tf-server-with-the-tfs-integration-platform/