InRelease- Release Management Licence issue using with TFS2012

Question

We installed the latest version of Release Management from MSDN and connected it to our TFS 2012 Server. The migration to TFS 2013 is scheduled to a later point.

After one week we are getting the following error in the logs:

License for Release Management Server for Team Foundation Server 2013 has expired.

Is a TFS 2013 server mandatory for the usage of the new Version of Release Management? In our case it was working for a week without any problems with the TFS 2012.

I didn't see any pages in the Client where a licence can be entered.

We stuck with our Deployment. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

Posted same question at below link also.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/24655842-37a6-4be5-9edb-e31cc0dc74fd/release-manager-2013-preview-inrelease-connecting-to-tfs-2012?forum=tfsbuild

Answer 1

Licensing is on a per-deployment server/CPU core basis. Microsoft has licensing info up on MSDN, but it's still a little bit confusing at the moment.

I suspect that you downloaded a trial version that has expired. If you have an Ultimate MSDN subscription, then you have a free license, per the licensing page.

Release Management works with TFS2010, 2012, and 2013 -- the licensing is the same for all of them, so it's not that you're connecting it to TFS 2012.