News of FogBugz On Demand has been seeping out in various places–on our trial page, in some of the online documentation, and in Joel’s discussion forums.  We’ve been working on it for a while now and are well into the beta.  As part of that beta we’ve started making all new trials of FogBugz automatically part of On Demand.  At the end of the free 45-day trial, you’ll have the option to start paying for On Demand, or purchasing our traditionally licensed FogBugz installation.  Some users are nearing the end of the free trial period and as this point gets closer we’re hearing from more people wondering whether they can take an existing database from their own FogBugz installation (or even from a trial started before we moved to the On Demand code), and import it to their new On Demand account.  The answer is, of course, yes you can.  But, we have to do it for you.  Here is what we’re going to need, in addition to a current support contract:

1)      We need a copy of your database in Microsoft SQL format.  It’s easiest if we can get it in MDF format, but a BKP file will work as well.

2)      We need the name of your On Demand account, i.e. what your url is, abc.fogbugz.com

3)      Pack the database file and the information in a nice friendly message (we like those best) and send it to us.

Once we receive that, we’ll place it into your On Demand account and you’ll happily be using FogBugz with out the hassle of managing it yourself.

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