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...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 How To & Tips, Installation, Off Topic Articles
Time has flown by, as it does tend to do when you are not paying attention! One minute I'm in Fargo, dropping a perfectly functioning laptop on a hard tile floor (yes, boy, that was fun!), and the next, it's nearly Christmas and I'm loading Windows 8 on a even more perfectly functioning new laptop. It's wrapped in bubble wrap to protect it from myself, just so ya know... ; )
When the Windows 8 previews and betas came out, I fully intended to install them on a virtual image or something, and get to know the new features. So much for that! The, ahem, fortunate timing of dropping a laptop and having my other functional Dell brick fail to boot led me to a just-in-time-for-Christmas new shiny laptop. While my American friends were eating Thanksgiving turkey, I was doing some timely Black Friday shopping. It seems Canadian retailers have adopted the sale weekend much to our price advantage!
I ordered another trusty Lenovo, my third one. Even though my first one died, I got a ton out of it and took it everywhere. My last one - which I dropped - actually still kind of worked even after dropping it on a tile floor. Dented, yes, but busted, no! I think I dented some internal things though as there were several issues with all the ports on one side not working all the time etc., and Black Friday came calling to rescue me from frustration.
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:
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!
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!
Thursday, August 4, 2011 Installation, Troubleshooting
What usually is a typical service pack install client visit started off on the wrong foot. I am installing SP2 for GP2010 plus related hotfixes for a client, and the last time I was here was in January for the year end tax updates. While I was doing my usual preparation, before I even started the process of installing anything, users started reporting warning messages keeping them out of GP.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 How To & Tips, Installation, Troubleshooting
I write this with a little embarrassment at the solution to a problem I had. Earlier this week I renamed a server I'm using for GP2010 to prepare for a new network and improve my network naming conventions. I've changed server names before at clients and the steps and places you need to make updates are pretty straight forward, at least for vanilla GP. There are other complications when you get into web services and other things where the configuration is not strictly within the application.
Saturday, November 27, 2010 Installation, Troubleshooting
Otherwise known as "how I lost my mind"! I ran into a difficult situation at a client where we were unable to uninstall GP2010. The issues were various but the short story is, the add/remove programs shortcut to "change" the installation (add new modules) was not working - it was empty - so, I thought uninstalling and reinstalling the client from scratch should be easy enough. BOY was I wrong!
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