If I use MOSS 2007 or Sharepoint Services 3.0 with TFS do I need a license or is there an implicit license with TFS, like there is for SQL Server.
You need a license for MOSS, but Sharepoint Services 3.0 are part of Windows and don't require a separate license to use. TFS only requires WSS to run. The stack looks like this:
WSS
/ \
MOSS TFS
WSS 3.0 comes free with Windows Server 2005/2008, MOSS always requires a separate license. TFS doesn't grant you any kind of SharePoint licensing afaik.
Ray - as others have said you need a license for MOSS beyond your Windows Server and TFS licenses, but not WSS 3.0 for TFS 2008. TFS 2010 does not require WSS or MOSS at all if you have another site or portal solution (i.e. FlexWiki, Zen, Pivotal Tracker, etc).
Related
What will be the steps to disable and completely remove SharePoint integration on TFS 2017? Currently the documentation shows how to "Disable SharePoint integration after TFS 2018 upgrade".
Go to TFS Administration Console.
Click SharePoint Web Applications.
Click Modify against your server connection.
Choose Remove.
TFS 2018 and later versions no longer support native integration with SharePoint products.
With TFS 2017 & earlier you could still configure and use TFS-SharePoint integration, if you don't need the sharepoint feature any more. You could simply remove sharepoint feature.
For SharePoint, click SharePoint Web Applications and under the top section, click Modify against your server connection and choose Remove.
More details please take a look at this similar question: How to remove Sharepoint and Reporting Services from TFS 2013?
I have TFS 2015 Update 3 configured with SharePoint 2013 integration. I am planning to upgrade to TFS 2018 in new hardware, which does not support SharePoint integration.
According to MS documents I should upgrade and disable the SharePoint integration post upgrade.
In my case I am upgrading and moving to new hardware at the same time. When I am moving to a new set of hardware, I do not want to bring the OLD SharePoint along.
So before even upgrading to TFS 2018 I want to decouple SharePoint sites from the existing TFS 2015 Update 3 configuration.
Is there a way to achieve this? or my approach is wrong?
If you don't need SharePoint anymore, you could remove SharePoint extension in your TFS 2015 by going to TFS Administration Console, click SharePoint Web Applications, click Modify against your server connection and choose Remove.
If you still need TFS SharePoint sites, you should follow the document you mentioned to disable SharePoint integration.
It's suggested have a full backup of your database, and do a dryrun upgrade before using in production environment.
What is the difference between a TFS installation with Sharepoint Services and one with Sharepoint Server? What are the limitations of the former?
Thanks
This refers to licensing. If you have a SharePoint server license you would like to use for your TFS web portal, or would you like to install a new instance of SharePoint Services(which is free).
With Moss 2007, we had WSS on our servers so that we could use some basic functionality of SharePoint without purchasing a license. We also created a number of public facing sites on WSS for clients who didnt want to purchase a full fledged license for MOSS 2007. I got some news that SP Foundation 2010 cannot be used as a public facing site. Is it true?
See the following SO question:
Sharepoint 2010 Foundation licenses
I am not a guru of MS licensing, but as far as I know, there is an "external connector license" that has to be purchased when you make a SharePoint server available on internet.
It means that you have to purchese an external connector license for your SQL server as well, if it is on a separate machine.
You will find more information here:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-cals-and-external-connector-license
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/external-connectors.aspx
I am asp.net developer and want to learn microsoft sharepoint for website development.
Is there a trial version of MOSS 2007 available that I can install? And what should be the best approach for installing and learning.
Yes.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version
This is the x86 version of Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial
for Standard and Enterprise editions.
You can download the trial Sharepoint VHD
Sharepoint 2007 VHD
I would suggest you definitely had a look at two resources:
http://myrampup.com
and
http://mssharepointdeveloper.com
Both sites contain a lot of great resources which can help you understand what SharePoint is about from the developer point of view.
Here is the Link for 180 day evaluation Sharepoint 2010 VHD
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ce