{"id":6521,"date":"2009-06-10T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/06\/10\/trial-tfs-with-teamdevcentral\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:21:35","slug":"trial-tfs-with-teamdevcentral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/trial-tfs-with-teamdevcentral\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial TFS with TeamDevCentral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve been working with a variety of hosters for the past 18 months or so.&nbsp; One of those hosters is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamdevcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TeamDevCentral<\/a>.&nbsp; TeamDevCentral provides a variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamdevcentral.com\/pricing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">options<\/a> for paid hosting of TFS.\nThe new, really cool thing they they have just released is a new, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamdevcentral.com\/trial.html\" target=\"_blank\">free TFS hosted trial<\/a>.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a great easy way to get started with TFS.&nbsp; I signed up myself yesterday and it was really easy.&nbsp; I got the &ldquo;welcome&rdquo; email within about 30 minutes after I signed up.\nUnfortunately the Microsoft firewall doesn&rsquo;t allow https traffic over the default (8081) port.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m told that if you can&rsquo;t get your firewall changed, they can help you with custom ports.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m still working with Microsoft IT to figure out the port situation but I tried it at home last night and it worked like a champ.&nbsp; It was easy, it was fast.\nTeamDevCentral will also provide guidance during the trial so your learning curve will be a lot less steep.&nbsp; If you already have Team Explorer on your machine (or if you just want to use web access), you can be up and running in no time.&nbsp; If not, then you can download the Team Suite trial in the link below.\nThere are, of course, other trial options for TFS.&nbsp; You can check out this Microsoft site to see the options: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/en-us\/try\/default.mspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/en-us\/try\/default.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/en-us\/try\/default.mspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve been working with a variety of hosters for the past 18 months or so.&nbsp; One of those hosters is TeamDevCentral.&nbsp; TeamDevCentral provides a variety of options for paid hosting of TFS. The new, really cool thing they they have just released is a new, free TFS hosted trial.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a great easy way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We&rsquo;ve been working with a variety of hosters for the past 18 months or so.&nbsp; One of those hosters is TeamDevCentral.&nbsp; TeamDevCentral provides a variety of options for paid hosting of TFS. The new, really cool thing they they have just released is a new, free TFS hosted trial.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a great easy way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}