Martin Woodward posted an interesting article on his blog yesterday which details how you can determine the expiry date of a TFS Trial Edition installation. Like many others, I have installed the Trial edition for a number of clients while they waited for the full version to become orderable. A quick commandline will allow you to work out the date before which you really need to get the full license arranged and installed on your server.

Run the following command line and add 180 days to the date shown.

tf changeset 1 /server:http://servername:8080 /noprompt

See Martin’s full blog post for all the details and an explanation of how this works.

 

[Martin Woodward: TFS Top Tip #7 – Determine when TFS Trial Edition will expire]