Friday, February 13, 2009

Convergence 2009 is coming!

11:55 AM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
Convergence 2009 New Orleans is just around the corner!

Don't miss the must attend event for all Great Plains professionals!

· The session catalog (containing 225 sessions) is now live on the Convergence marketing site.
· The Convergence Customer Excellence Awards recognize, honor and celebrate customers who have achieved outstanding success with their Microsoft solutions as well as Microsoft partners' solutions. Customer Excellence Award nominations are now being accepted through January 20, 2009.

Check out these 6 reasons why you should go!

http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/convergence/neworleans09/about_6reasonstoattend.aspx
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Application Connections in Forecaster 7.0 or Where is Forecaster.ini?

1:32 PM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
Here's some quick information on how Forecaster stores application connections.

I'm running Forecaster 7.0 under Citrix and we ran into an issue where any new application connections that we're being created weren't being saved. It turns out that these connections are stored thusly:

T:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Forecaster\Forecaster.ini
(where T: is our system drive letter under Citrix).

The contents of Forecaster.ini are pretty straight forward, here's an example entry:

[Applications]
0=Demo
[Demo]
FileName=T:\Program Files\Microsoft Forecaster 7.0\Demo70.mdb

We're getting around the fact that Citrix cleans up this file on logoff (thus erasing any newly created application connections) by using a batch file to copy this file to and from the user's home drive during logon and logoff.

I hope this helps with anyone needing make sure these entries get saved or if they need to be moved (or copied or whatever)!


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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Great Plains Test Drive!

1:35 PM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
Take Great Plains for a try out virtually!

https://dynamicsgptestdrive.com/content.aspx


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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Webcast on Tools to Customize your Dynamics Great Plains Solution

8:30 AM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
Found this great video covering various tools available for customizing your Great Plains install!



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Great Great Plains Videos!

8:19 AM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
You ever want to know how to do something? You don't want the why or a bunch of "fluff" about the architechure, you just want to know where to click to make things happen. I find that "How To" Videos can really help out in this situation! 

I was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of these "How To" videos posted up on YouTube! Who would have thunk it? I thought YouTube was only for music videos and RickRolling! Well, come to find out, many reputeable companies are using YouTube to post all sorts of educational videos. 

For "How To" Video's in the Great Plains world, check out this link:

This is the YouTube homepage (aka channel) of our friend from DynamicAccouting.Net, Mark Polino. It's pure gold when it comes to finding out the how to do a specific thing in GP!


If it turns out that you are after more of the "why" type info (and I guess we do that need, too, eventually), try this YouTube channel:


or this one, from Microsoft:



Happy Video Watching!



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Friday, January 9, 2009

Great Plains 10 Table Name Quick Reference

2:32 PM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
Found this little gem, a great quick reference for Great Plains 10 Table Names!

http://www.box.net/shared/jc90kdsh2k

And more great downloads here:

http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2005/09/gp-downloads.html

Thanks to Mark Polino and the guys from from DynamicAccounting.net!
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Monday, January 5, 2009

desSPRkmhBBCreh

6:23 AM | Posted by David E. Patrick | Edit Post
I found this bit of SQL while reviewing a trace of Great Plains acitivity:

SELECT desSPRkmhBBCreh FROM

and I was wondering what the heck the column desSPRkmhBBCreh was, as it wasn't in any tables that I could find.

Then I found this gem:

http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2008/10/15/what-is-column-dessprkmhbbcreh.aspx

Ah ha! It's all so clear now.... :-)
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