Website move
Saturday, November 24, 2012 Off Topic Articles
This is a quick test post to confirm the move of my website to a new host!
Tips, Tricks & Thoughts on Microsoft Dynamics GP
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Catching up after a web hosting issue
Thursday, October 25, 2012 General Stuff, Off Topic Articles
Those of you that follow my blog via RSS, you've just received 5 duplicate articles, re-posted today, with the original content and dates.
Earlier this week I was notified that my web hosting account had been hacked. Of course I had a backup but it turns out it wasn't as recent as I thought. I couldn't find my most recent one and only could find one from June.
So... thanks to syndication, I was able to view the last 5 articles I posted during the summer since my backup had been taken, and was able to re-create them and get back to where I am today.
Excuse the duplication, and hopefully I will get back to regular blogging soon!
Now if you excuse me, I'm off to do a backup ; )
Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2012 - Web Client part 2
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:
- Certificates
- SSL
- Firewalls
- Domain Users & Groups
- 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!
Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2012 - Web Client part 1
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!
Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2012 - Pre-Conference
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 General Stuff
It's that time again, the time to trek to Fargo and be immersed in all things Microsoft Dynamics GP! The last technical conference was a blast and this proves to be no different.
The content this time around is, of course, Microsoft Dynamics GP2013 and all of it's new features including a ton of content around the new web client. Stayed tuned this week for bits of news as I have time to blog. Check out twitter if you want live action tweeting from myself and others - hashtags most commonly used are #airlift12 and #GP2013.
Canadian Payroll & US Payroll in the same environment
Monday, August 6, 2012 Canadian Payroll
I was asked this question from someone a few days ago and I have a little bit of information about this. At some point I will expand on this article but for now, it's a short one!
This article is simply about using Cdn Payroll and US Payroll together, as in "can you use them together"?
The short version is the supported method is not to have both in the same environment, i.e. same SQL instance. There is a KB article that spells out all of the "how to", and describes two installs, two instances, one US English, one Canadian. That KB article is here.
Cdn Payroll Mid-Year Tax Update (July 2012)
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.
Project Accounting: Misc Log eConnect import issue
Friday, June 8, 2012 General Stuff, Project Accounting, Troubleshooting
My last post about the good and the ugly of the Update Budget Lines feature had a continuing theme to it. I was telling the story of the client who mass updated 650+ projects with a new cost category only to find the budget sources set to Specific didn't get populated with the default "specific" GL account.
What I didn't get into was HOW they found the problem. I built some integrations for them for Misc Logs, which they've been using for a while now and having no issues with. It's been a huge timesaver for them, and they love it. Great! So, fast forward to how they found out they had an issue was during the Misc Log import and posting. The problem was, eConnect didn't fail and alert them of the problem with the missing accounts, it allowed the creation of the transaction without GL distributions and they posted it without thinking to check! Uh oh x2!
This article is explaining the issue, another possible bug, in Project Accounting Misc Log Entry eConnect node (not a problem with Misc Logs themselves).
Project Accounting: Update Budget Lines - the good and the ugly
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 General Stuff, Project Accounting, Troubleshooting
The other day a client asked me if there was a way to mass-add a new cost category to all projects at once. I actually didn't know there was a new function to do this starting with GP10, but a quick google search resulted in a post from Mark Polino describing this exact thing.
Wow. That doesn't happen every day... I was thinking of the alternatives I would explain the client, but was really happy to see this added functionality.
Until... today, after the client used the new window, and rolled down a new cost category to every project they have, they found a problem. Uh oh!
This particular article relates to the Project Accounting module in Dynamics GP, and the Update Budget Lines window under the Routines menu.
Report Writer Series: The End!
Sunday, May 27, 2012 How To & Tips, Report Writer
Well, it's been fun but it's time to focus on more interesting areas of Microsoft Dynamics GP. This is the last official article in the Report Writer series of posts I've written, although I'm sure there may be the odd article pop up that has some Report Writer content.
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