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How to: Upgrade from Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition

Updated: November 2007

You can upgrade Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition to Team Foundation Server. To do this, you must have a valid product key for Team Foundation Server. For more information about Team Foundation Server upgrades, see Team Foundation Server Upgrade Types.

Note:

After you upgrade from Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition, the membership of the Team Foundation Licensed Users group no longer controls access to Team Foundation Server, but the group will still exist. You can choose to remove members from this group.

Important Note:

During the upgrade, you must provide a product key. If you acquired Team Foundation Server through a volume licensing program, you can locate this key on your Volume License medium (CD, DVD, or .iso image). For more information, see How to: Locate the Product Key for Team Foundation Server. For additional assistance, you can contact support for Visual Studio Team System by using the information at "Help and Support" on the Microsoft Web site. For more information about licensing, see “Visual Studio Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper” on the Microsoft Web site.

Required Permissions

To complete this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the Team Foundation application-tier and data-tier servers and a member of the Team Foundation Administrators group.

To upgrade to Team Foundation Server

  1. On the Team Foundation application-tier server, click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel.

  2. In Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs.

  3. In Add or Remove Programs, click Change or Remove Programs. Click Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, and then click Change/Remove.

  4. In Maintenance Mode Options, select Upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, type the product key for your Team Foundation Server, and then click Next.

    A Command Prompt window might appear and display services stopping and starting.

    Note:

    During the upgrade to Team Foundation Server, you will have to provide a product key. If you acquired Team Foundation Server through a volume licensing program, you will not have an individual product key to provide during the upgrade process. You must contact Visual Studio Developer Professional Support in order to obtain a product key for the upgrade. For a list of support contact numbers, visit the Microsoft Web site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/support).

  5. On the Maintenance - Setup Complete page, click Finish.

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Key fields not updateable!      Nicholas Rogoff ... Thomas Lee   |   Edit   |  
I have tried this and the key fields are disabled and pre-filled. I upgraded TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 using only the issued MSDN CDs. Anyone know what I can do to upgrade to my recently purchased enterprise version?

[tfl - 14 Aug 08] You should post questions like this to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or the MSDN Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content.

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