Tips, Tricks & Thoughts on Microsoft Dynamics GP
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Sunday, January 13, 2013 Canadian Payroll, News
(Updated Feb 2013)
There was an issue identified last week with the 2012 year end tax update that affects T4s. This issue is being worked on and a hotfix should be available soon.
The specific issue is this:
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Box 24 (EI Insurable Earnings) will show the 2011 rate $44,200 instead of the 2012 rate $45,900
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Box 26 (CPP Pensionable Earnings) will show the 2011 rate $48,300 instead of the 2012 rate $50,100
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Also, RL-1 Box G (QPP Pensionable Earnings) will show the 2011 rate $48,300 instead of the 2012 rate $50,100
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Thursday, December 20, 2012 Canadian Payroll, Installation, News
Welcome to my annual "hey the tax tables are out" blog post! Like clockwork - or like death and taxes - yet another certainty is each year end there are tax table updates to apply! Here are the details for those Canadian Payroll users of Microsoft Dynamics GP! Special note to you GP2013 users as well...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012 General Stuff, News
It's a big day ... and I'm a day late in blogging about this!
Microsoft Dynamics GP2013 has launched! Yay!
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Friday, September 14, 2012 General Stuff, Installation, News
A continuation of the first part of my articles on the GP2013 Web Client, this goes through some of the other training things that were covered that are installation related. Some of the things in this article are:
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Certificates
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SSL
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Firewalls
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Domain Users & Groups
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Deployment Strategies
As I mentioned in the first article, this is not an exhaustive resource for installing the web client. To be quite honest, there are several areas which are pretty new to me so there may be instances where I don't have the terminology described quite correctly... drop me a line via the comments if there are any glaring errors!
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Thursday, September 13, 2012 General Stuff, Installation, News
Tuesday was the unofficial first day of the conference for me with the agenda being one of two things for those who chose to come a day early. There was a sales presentation for those on the business development side and there was technical training on the web client for the rest of us.
Generally you have to pay for training but due to the importance of this product release and the new content, Microsoft put this training on for free - which was awesome. They really want to make sure the Partner channel is informed and ready for the web client specifically, and understand the "stack" dependencies to be able to troubleshoot it when it does release.
The training ended up filling up very quickly and they even had a waitlist. So many people signed up that they had to pair people up to share virtual machines to do the hands on lab portion. They had 40 VM environments and over 90 people registered. Fortunately, I was one of the "leads" which meant I got to have my hands on the keybaord for the hands on portion. Everyone learns differently and I definitely learn by doing, and/or writing things down, so I was happy not to be just a spectator.
Here in no particular order are some of the key takeaways I got out of the day. These are my observations and notes, so please take them with a grain of salt if you plan on relying them as the complete facts!
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Canadian Payroll, News
... Otherwise known as OMG it's already July???? I talked to two clients today and yesterday about this and both of them forgot too... so apparently I'm not the only one not paying attention to time these days!
Yes, I, too, fell into the trap this year of letting time merrily fly by without realizing I didn't blog about the Cdn Payroll tax updates for mid year.
So, now to the not-so-new-news! Yes there is mid-year 2012 tax update as there is every year, and this year the provinces affected are: Ontario and Nova Scotia.
There is only one bug fix in this update which is for Quebec employees, QPIP exceeding the maximum limit based on rounding in certain situations. I don't know much about that one, that's just what's in the notification email I got when the update was published.
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Friday, March 23, 2012 General Stuff, News
(updated with more information Sun March 25, 2012)
You read that correctly! Microsoft has decided to change the way they work with some of their utilities and tools. Previously there were charges to get access to tools or utilities like Customer Modifier and Customer Combiner (and Vendor, Account, Item etc.). On the partner side, we had to purchase those outside of the normal ordering processes (they weren't "modules" like ordering something like Integration Manager was). They want to streamline that to eliminate some of their Direct Billing policies and that means Dynamics GP customers win!
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Sunday, October 2, 2011 News, Off Topic Articles
Yesterday I went golfing, and it was the first day that really had that "autumn turning to winter" feel about it. It was about 8 degrees Celcius when I teed off, and yes, I froze my backside off in the process. But the sun came out and gradually I only needed 3 layers to keep warm. ; ) (Such is life in Canada when you want to golf in October!)
October 1st also is a new season business-wise: the new Microsoft partner requirements officially begin. For my firm, that means I officially do not meet the requirements to be a reseller anymore. This isn't new, it hasn't "crept up" or caught me off-guard... no, partners have been well aware of the changes for many months now.
Am I disappointed? Yes and no. When I started, I was really proud to be a full Microsoft Dynamics GP reselling partner... I had customers who wanted to work with me, and only me, and they switched VARs to demonstrate their committment to my business as I had to theirs over the years. Little did I know when I started, how difficult it is to be a small fish in a big pond. Systems are heavily geared towards larger partners, particularly on the business transaction side of things. I've grown to realize that doing business with firms where I'm such a blip on the radar is not fun, and it's not easy. If you don't have a partner service plan or credit terms, it just takes a lot of back and forth to get business transactions done unfortunately.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Canadian Payroll, News
The mid year tax update is posted for GP10 and coming soon for GP2010. Changes are only (so far) for Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.
New this time around: this is only the Canadian changes. At the end of June there will be a hotfix which will contain US tax changes and other bug fixes. You only have to install the tax update if you are in the jurisdictions involved - the hot fix in June will be cumulative and will contain the tax updates PLUS the regular bug fixes that normally would be in one service pack.
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Monday, May 9, 2011 News, Troubleshooting
At long last I'm back, and aim to get back to regular weekly (if not more frequent) blogging!
First topic, last week I installed GP2010 SP2 (aka R2) at a client site and all was fine. That is, until I was doing some unrelated work in Report Writer, and was getting an error message when coming back into Dynamics GP.
I had some trouble finding this specific error but did find a post on the partner technical forums with the same problem, from a couple of months ago, that had gone dormant. I updated the post with my information, adding to the original poster's info, and it turns out it is indeed a bug.
UPDATED: December 6, 2011
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