No TFS CAL required for defect tracking!

November 20, 2007 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments

This is amazing news! Adam Gallant has posted the details in this blog entry.

Microsoft has made one licensing change with the release of TFS 2008. The change is as follows: You do not need a CAL to access work item tracking functionality, to create new work items or view and update work items you opened.

Check out Adam’s post to get more details. The major benefit to developers I see in this change is that now any software you release in the field can send back a work item to your server. So your clients can send you enhancement requests, bugs, whatever right into your TFS server.

This is huge.

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2 Responses to “No TFS CAL required for defect tracking!”

Unknown Reply April 15, 2008 at 6:02 pm

What does the developer need in order to get access?

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Wes Reply April 21, 2008 at 10:36 am

The members of the organization would use the new WIWA web application to open work items. Please note this tool is only for internal users of your organization, if you plan to allow access to your customers you must purchase an “external connector” license.

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