{"id":29215,"date":"2017-04-05T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/?p=29215"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:55:39","slug":"reintroducing-the-team-explorer-standalone-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/reintroducing-the-team-explorer-standalone-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reintroducing the Team Explorer standalone installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you remember back to 2013 (and before), we released standalone installers for Team Explorer. In VS 2015, we did not release a standalone Team Explorer since customers had free options with Express SKUs and Community, which included Team Explorer functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Customers have continued to request a standalone installer for Team Explorer for non-developers, however. And so today, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2017\/04\/05\/visual-studio-2017-update\/\">Visual Studio 2017 Update\u00a0release<\/a>, the standalone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio\/?sku=TeamExplorer&amp;rel=15\">Team Explorer installer <\/a>is back.\u00a0This is a free download for non-developers who connect to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services. Users of Team Foundation Server will typically need a client access license (CAL), see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Visual-Studio-2017-Licensing-Whitepaper-March-2017.pdf\">licensing white paper<\/a> for details.\u00a0 Also, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/team-services\/pricing\/\">Visual Studio Team Services pricing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please send any feedback through <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vs-rap\">Report a Problem<\/a> by going to Help-&gt;Send Feedback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/reportaproblem.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29225\" alt=\"reportaproblem\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/reportaproblem-300x121.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you remember back to 2013 (and before), we released standalone installers for Team Explorer. In VS 2015, we did not release a standalone Team Explorer since customers had free options with Express SKUs and Community, which included Team Explorer functionality. Customers have continued to request a standalone installer for Team Explorer for non-developers, however. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you remember back to 2013 (and before), we released standalone installers for Team Explorer. In VS 2015, we did not release a standalone Team Explorer since customers had free options with Express SKUs and Community, which included Team Explorer functionality. Customers have continued to request a standalone installer for Team Explorer for non-developers, however. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}