Nice replies guys - hopefully these three emails will be helpful to others in the future who get caught out. i was so happy to see how easy it was to upgrade once i found our key. phew :) cheers guys :)
-------------------------------------------------------- Justin Adler Senior Developer Stargate Group Level 4, 600 Victoria Street Richmond Victoria 3121 Telephone: 03 8420 3009 Facsimile: 03 9428 1533 This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. No responsibility is assumed by the company or its employee to any other person for any loss or damage (whether caused by negligence or not) arising from the use of the information and advice contained herein. Finally, it is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening or sending them on. -------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OzTFS] Whoa! Close call!! :) If you are concerned about your TFS trial expiring then please visit the following link. It is from one of the MS devs working on TFS. http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/10/04/Last-word-on-TFS-Expirat ions-_2800_I-hope_2900_.aspx That link has instructions on: - how to extract your TFS product key from the media provided by MS (your license key is embedded in the "setup.sdb" file on the dvd) - how to upgrade a trial TFS install He also includes a very useful tool that gives a 30 day extension to the trial period (only able to use it once of course). This can be applied after an install expires. "Justin Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/03/2007 10:46 AM Please respond to [email protected] To <[email protected]> cc Subject [OzTFS] Whoa! Close call!! :) Whoa :) Got to work this morning and found out that our TFS had expired! I swear i checked to see when the expiry was due ... and i thought it was upgrade when we purchased the keys/cals. I know we have a key (and a huge bucket of CALS) so I wasn't stressing ... until the IT dept couldn't find they key! Er -- WTF? On some EOpen website they were showing me, it lists all the products and the keys etc but for TFS there was nothing! (ie. this product doesn't have a volume license key or something geeky like that ... i'm so glad i don't need the degree required to handle licesning). Now I was starting to worry (just a tiny bit) because i was thinking it would take some time to ring the suppliers and get the key for the server. In the mean time i'm already starting to think of plan B, C, D, etc.. It's not good when you have 20+ developers starting to get restless :( So i tried one last thing before I started raising the issue from embarassing to serious -> run the TFS install and see if the key is 'grey'd out' in the setup wizard before it starts doing the main main main install. I've noticed this with other products i've recieved from MSDN before. Yep it was and yes it worked when i upgraded our TFS from (i'm guessing) RTM 1.0 -> whatever the physical CD/DVD the IT guys purchased. Close call and now 20+ happen developers once again. Can't. Live. Without. Tfs. :) ________________________________ Justin Adler Senior Developer Stargate Group Level 4, 600 Victoria Street Richmond Victoria 3121 Telephone: 03 8420 3009 Facsimile: 03 9428 1533 <http://www.stargategroup.com.au/> This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. No responsibility is assumed by the company or its employee to any other person for any loss or damage (whether caused by negligence or not) arising from the use of the information and advice contained herein. Finally, it is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening or sending them on. ________________________________ OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net -- This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender and delete the transmission. The contents of this e-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by the Mincom Group of companies unless expressly stated otherwise. -- OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
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