{"id":3623,"date":"2006-08-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2006\/08\/23\/a-tool-for-reporting-expiration-dates-for-rc-and-rtm-trial-editions-of-team-foundation-server\/"},"modified":"2006-08-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:00:00","slug":"a-tool-for-reporting-expiration-dates-for-rc-and-rtm-trial-editions-of-team-foundation-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/a-tool-for-reporting-expiration-dates-for-rc-and-rtm-trial-editions-of-team-foundation-server\/","title":{"rendered":"A tool for reporting expiration dates for RC and RTM trial editions of Team Foundation Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some customers have found out the hard way, the TFS release candidates have started to expire without warning at the end of the 6 month (180 days) period.&nbsp; The TFS trial edition (RTM) will start to expire next month, again without warning.&nbsp; It also expires 6 months after installation.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bharry\">Brian Harry<\/a> posted a tool that you can use to detect which version of Team Foundation Server you have installed and when it will expire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bharry\/archive\/2006\/08\/23\/714412.aspx\">More Expirations Coming Soon&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the impending expirations of TFS Release Candidate installations and Trial installations that were installed soon after release.&nbsp; Both the TFS Release Candidate and the TFS Trial Edition have 6 month expiration periods.&nbsp; Many of the Release Candidate builds started expiring this month.&nbsp; Trial Editions will start expiring in September.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some customers have found out the hard way, the TFS release candidates have started to expire without warning at the end of the 6 month (180 days) period.&nbsp; The TFS trial edition (RTM) will start to expire next month, again without warning.&nbsp; It also expires 6 months after installation. This morning, Brian Harry posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,8],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-build","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As some customers have found out the hard way, the TFS release candidates have started to expire without warning at the end of the 6 month (180 days) period.&nbsp; The TFS trial edition (RTM) will start to expire next month, again without warning.&nbsp; It also expires 6 months after installation. This morning, Brian Harry posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}