Microsoft team foundation server licensing

#Microsoft team foundation server licensing full
#Microsoft team foundation server licensing software

Having purchased it and a CAL, where necessary, you can use either the Visual Studio based Team Explorer or the Eclipse based Team Explorer Everywhere with no additional purchases.

#Microsoft team foundation server licensing full

Team Foundation Server вЂњStandard EditionвЂќ вЂ“ You can acquire the standard Team Foundation Server with the full set of TFS capabilities a number of different ways вЂ“ through MSDN, as a separate purchase, etc.This means that regardless of whether you use the Visual Studio based Team Explorer or the Eclipse based Team Explorer Everywhere, you can use these services without having to purchase any software. Team Foundation Service or CodePlex вЂ“ Both of these provide online hosted versions of TFS that can be used by anyone (no CAL purchase necessary вЂ“ subject to change when Team Foundation Service leaves вЂњpreviewвЂќ but true for now).IвЂ™m not going to try to fully explain every scenario but letвЂ™s pick a few interesting ones: Starting today the story is the same for Team Explorer Everywhere ( TEE 2010 with SP1, TEE 11 Beta).

#Microsoft team foundation server licensing software

Before today, Team Explorer Everywhere users had to purchase both a Client Access License (CAL) and the Team Explorer Everywhere software, whereas Visual Studio Team Explorer users only had to purchase a CAL вЂ“ the Visual Studio Team Explorer software has always been a free download ( TE 2008, TE 2010, TE 11 Beta) for users who had a license to access a TFS server.

Starting today, we are eliminating the requirement to purchase Team Explorer Everywhere separately. Each release has advanced the solution, working to keep rough parity with the Visual Studio tools, while at the same time providing an experience that feels вЂњnativeвЂќ for Eclipse developers. These improvements include an SP1 with some nice improvements that also introduced localized versions, a Java SDK that enabled people to start automating and extending more of their process in Java, and a Developer preview followed by a Beta of Team Explorer Everywhere 11. Over the last two years, we have consistently improved on that initial release. And we gave a new group of people access to a comprehensive set of software development collaboration tools. We provided organizations a substantially improved ability to manage all of their projects and get consistent visibility across them. In doing that we enabled diverse teams to work closely together regardless of platform or technology stack. About 2 years ago, we first introduced Team Explorer Everywhere.