InRelease- Release Management Licence issue using with TFS2012 - visual-studio-2012

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

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.

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How can I install Team Foundation Server 2010 without a DVD?

I have a client who has TFS 2010 and I need to setup my own installation on an Azure VM in order to do some testing, and help them migrate off of TFS 2010 to TFS 2015. However, I cant for the life of me seem to locate a setup .exe online for Team Foundation Server 2010. Is this still possible? Do I need a physical DVD?
The instructions here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=24337
ask to use the physical DVD, but I dont have one.
According to this link https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/56343ed9-6c0c-4c17-89d1-62b4bb3cf645/visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2010-setup-downloadable-link?forum=tfsbuild
Its available for MSDN subscribers, but I dont see any TFS versions below 2015 on MSDN download page.
I have found the service pack 1 install, but not the setup for the full product. can anyone help me locate a setup exe online so that I can get this running? Thank you in advance.
Seems you are installing TFS 2010 to simulate some existing environment and test configuration changes. However, there is not any setup.exe for TFS 2010 in official site for now.
It's unsupported and 8 years old. There have been five major releases since then. We encourage users move to newly version of TFS server. Either back up the TFS2010 database and do the move directly or use some other machine with DVD to install the TFS2010 ISO image for a test.

Visual Studio: Development Environment for Sharepoint 2013 Enterprise vs. Foundation

I am trying to determine if I can configure a development machine for Sharepoint 2013 Enterprise using Visual Studio Pro 2013 and Sharepoint Foundation 2013.
I do not wish to install VS on the production server and run it from there - that is just asking for trouble.
However the budget will not withstand another SP2013 Enterprise license.
I have searched this site and others, but have not found any instance that specifically addresses my question:
can I install SP2013 Foundation (which is free) on my development machine with VS2013 Pro, and use that to build solutions for deployment to my production SP2013 Enterprise server?
The short answer is yes you could do this, but it may not let you do what you need...
So my first addendum to 'yes,' is that the dev machine needs to be running Windows Server 2008 R2 or later and meet all the other hardware and software requirements.
My second is probably a bit more important -- if you develop on SP foundation instead of enterprise you'll be unable to develop and test many of the features that your organization (or your customer, whichever is appropriate) probably purchased the enterprise edition for in the first place.
Something that's also important to note, you wouldn't need to purchase another full enterprise license; you can get an MSDN subscription (platforms or premium for access to SharePoint) that will give you access to software to use specifically for development and testing purposes.

Missing prerequisites in Visual Studio 2012 for sharepoint 2013 development

I am following the Microsoft tutorial for creating my first sharepoint 2013 app.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp142379.aspx )
I have installed on a windows 2008 R2 Server Sharepoint 2013 RTM, done all the farm config stuff RTM, and installed all of Visual Studio 2012 ultimate and update 1 and restarted the server.
I have also followed the instructions for "How to: Set up an on-premises development environment for apps for SharePoint" which is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179923.aspx (I have to do this as our dev environment has no internet access)
I have got to the point where running Visual Studio as an Administrator I have named it and chosen "sharepoint-hosted" and validated the server and clicked finish (Step 5).
Instead of getting the next step where I open the AppManifest.xml file I get a message saying "An error occurred whilst trying to load some required components, Please ensure the following prerequisite components are installed. Microsoft Web Developer Tools and Microsoft Exchange Web Services"
I have checked VS setup and web developer tools is definetely installed (the only option I have would be to remove it)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know Im a noob here (this is my first post) but I have googled this and searched stack exchange and found nothing that helps me.
Got it after a few trial and errors
With an offline install you have to download the Exchange Web Services component. I had downloaded "EwsManageApi" and installed that.
As the error message specifically refers to Exchange Web services, I looked at other versions and tried the older 1.1 and the 32 bit version, but they didn't work either, ** until ** I relised in my haste that I installed using the default settings (which is for the current user) and not for all users of the machine.
So installing EwsManagedApi32 for all users on a 64 bit server does the trick (for me)
I tried reinstalling the EWS Managed API for All Users, but that didn't solve it for me. In the end the solution was simple:
Just uninstall BOTH the EWS Managed API and the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. After that reinstall ONLY the Office Developer Tools. This time the Web Platform Installer will ensure the correct EWS Managed API is also installed.
I also wrote a small blog about this problem:
https://leonzandman.com/2013/02/07/prerequisite-components-error-when-creating-a-visual-studio-2012-sharepoint-2013-app-project/
Answer for the year of 2014:
Install Microsoft Exchange Web Services Managed API 2.1 (the latest version I can find at this time).

TFS 2010 with Project Server 2010

I've just tried out TFS 2010 today, along with Project 2010 and VS 2010. Only Later realized that without Sharepoint, TFS is only configured as Basic. This reduces it's functionality as oppose to what I've seen during VS2010 product launch. Sadly I can't find any alternative but to get a trial copy of Sharepoint to see if it serve my purpose. Well, apparently Sharepoint only comes with x64 edition. I'm not formatting any machine to x64 just to give this a try. So, after some reading up, I found that Project Server is actually based on Sharepoint. Now I wonder is whether TFS can be configure to connect to Project Server?
If it's possible, would the setting be much different that Sharepoint's?
And what am I missing from this setup as oppose to Sharepoint's?
Based on Sharepoint != Sharepoint. I think that Project Server is just a subset of Sharepoint functionality. Also, basing Project on Sharepoint allows for some really tight integration into your portal. To answer your question, I don't think you still will get your fully featured TFS without Sharepoint Proper.
FYI - Sharepoint 2007 (or 3.0 or whatever it is) is not x64 only, but will run on x86. TFS 2010 will go full feature on 2007
Sharepoint 2007 Trial
To answer what you are missing:
Reports
Project Portal
TFS Web Access
That's about it. You still get 90% of the features with your current deployment without SharePoint. Tommy is right about MOSS 2007, it comes in 32-bit and will give you all features. Project Server runs on top of SharePoint as a shared service provider. Traditionally MS releases a power toy to integrate TFS with Project Server. They said they would go over this at TechEd, which just happened about a week ago.
Also, I suspect the integration with Project Server 2010 will be better, but then you will have to run SharePoint 2010 :(
In my opinion, TFS has enough to run most projects by itself and you can use the client version of MS Project for critical path anaylsis, etc.
Use Windows Sharepoint Services for Windows 2003 & Windows 2008:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx
For Windows Server 2008 sp2 and Windows Server R2, use SharePoint Foundation 2010:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595&displaylang=en
Both are free.
I'm not formatting any machine to x64
just to give this a try.
Why not use VMWare Server, Hyper-V, Virtual Box or some other virtualization software to run the pre-made demo/trial/lab VHD's - no formatting, no installation, no setup, more hair.
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Any problems upgrading TFS to 2008 if SharePoint already upgraded to 3.0?

I installed WSS 3.0 and pointed my TFS2005SP1 installation at it. I am planning my TFS 2008 upgrade. Everything I've read mentions migrating to WSS3.0 after the TFS upgrade.
Are there any gotchas I need to be aware of related to the WSS upgrade already having been performed?
I am in this same situation. I have TFS2008 sitting here ready to go. What I am ultimately thinking is that since Microsoft did put out official documentation on how to upgrade TFS2005 to use WSS3.0 (which I followed and worked perfectly), that the upgrade from TFS2005 to TFS2008 should go on without a hitch with WSS3.0 already in place.
I am still a bit nervous about it and your question is the first mention I have even been able to find online about this.
I had issues with the upgrade. It would always silently exit after entering the Reporting Services account information. The next page of the setup wizard is supposed to be SharePoint connection settings. When I upgraded, I did not replace the WSS 2.0 site but installed side-by-side and changed the SharePoint port settings in TFS config. I think this was the cause of the install failure.
I ended up building up a new virtual machine with the exact same specs, computer name, etc. I did not install TFS 2005, but restored the TFS 2005 databases and then ran the TFS 2008 installer. It detected and upgraded the 2005 databases and all is well.

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