Third Shelf

You may or might need to know that there are two released editions of Team Foundation Server 2008. The one version is the workgroup version and the other the full or standard edition. The workgroup edition is intended and limited to a small number of users; in this case, five users. Then, there is the standard or full version, which supports unlimited users, as well as the trial edition.

How do you know which version you have installed? Here is a post by Leon Meijer, that describes a way in which you can find out, by looking in the registry. The other is of course by looking at the TFS groups that are created during the installation in Team Foundation Server. If there is a group called SERVER\Team Foundation Licensed Users, then it implies the workgroup edition.

What do you do when you have the wrong edition installed? Microsoft saw that one coming, and provided an easy way to change it. This article on MSDN describes the upgrade from the workgroup edition to the standard edition.

If you want to upgrade from the trial edition, this article describes the process to follow.