The Dynamics GP Blogster Best Articles of 2014

How about this 2014 year, ah? Two major releases in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 R2 only to top off the year with the recent release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015. More than 30 new features in 2013 R2 (over 150 if you include those released in GP 2013 RTM) and now over 120 new features in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015, including the cornerstone .NET interoperability and Service Based Architecture components, it's no wonder why the Microsoft Dynamics GP Product Management and Product Development teams deserve a massive showing of the hands on this one! Congratulations team on a job well done.

Let's not forget about the events either: the wildly successful Microsoft Convergence 2014 Atlanta, the hugely concurred GPUG Summit 2014 St. Louis, and what's got to be the most anticipated partner event since the days of Stampede, reIMAGINE 2014 in Fargo. All these events drove the vision of t

Travel was also off the chain for me: Johannesburg, South Africa; St. Louis, Missouri; Fargo, North Dakota; Boston, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada; Green Bay, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Shreveport, Louisiana; and the list goes on! Over 70,000 miles of airline travel, 100+ nights of hotel lodging, and tons of driving miles, ah!... and the ALS ice bucket challenge in between.

Nonetheless, every year I try to bring interesting topics to the blog, an insight into the events I attend, and definitely, those troubleshooting and development articles that are life savers when you need them most. So without further due, here's a sample of some of the best articles you liked throughout the year (in no particular order)

No.	Article
1	Word Templates: We can't open template because we found a problem with its contents. Just recently I was working on a Sales Invoice Word Template customization for a customer and ran into a strange issue when attempting to print a batch of invoices for customers assigned to this template... Read more.
2	Web Client Wednesday - You receive ArgumentNull_Generic exception when clicking an option on the Navigation Bar. In good measure, here at Intelligent Partnerships we eat our own dog food. As of January 1, 2014 we completed our internal rollout of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and web... Read more.
3	Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Virtual Machine image from the Windows Azure Gallery. In my previous article, Part 1 of the series, I talked about provisioning a Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 development environment from the Windows Azure gallery.  If you are already an MSDN subscriber and... Read more.
4	Preventing Visual Studio Tools customization processes from being terminated by Microsoft Dynamics GP. Just recently I ran into a case on the Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner Forum where the ISV developer was dealing with a potentially long standing process to be executed from... Read more.
5	Working with the Dex.ini Settings in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. Dex.ini settings have always existed to provide developers and end-users with ways to set a number of preferences for their Microsoft Dynamics GP application without the need of additional development or customizations... Read more.
6	Using Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Intelligence deployment utility to deploy custom SSRS reports. In the previous installment, I outlined a technique to deploy your custom SQL Reporting Services reports using the standard Business Intelligence deployment utility provided by Microsoft... Read more.
7	Deploying Business Analyzer Companion App Services on Windows Azure Service Bus. If you are not using Business Analyzer today, shame on you. Last year sometimes I wrote a small article on how to deploy the Business Analyzer Windows 8 application on a personal laptop, which is typically... Read more.
8	Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 Developer's Preview: .NET Framework Interoperability - Part 3. In part 2 of the series, I delivered a brief primer on the service architecture in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 and how you are able to consume services natively created with Dexterity. There are two types... Read more.
9	Working with Dex.ini Settings to customize the Microsoft Dynamics GP Connect gadget. Have you ever wanted to wake up with The Dynamics GP Blogster page as the centerpiece of your Microsoft Dynamics GP application homepage? Or how about your favorite online news outlet? What if you...Read more.
10	Microsoft Dynamics GP backups with Windows Azure Blob Storage Service - Follow up. As a follow up to my post yesterday (see Microsoft Dynamics GP backups with Windows Azure Blob Storage Service), an issue has been identified with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 running on SQL Server 2014...Read more.

2015 is sure to be a very exciting year for the Dynamics GP community. Right off the bat I can think of Convergence 2015 in Atlanta, GPUG Summit in Tahoe-Reno, NV, reIMAGINE in Fargo, ND, the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2 with another iteration, Dynamics GP 2015 R3, close to the end of 2015. So lots and lots to talk about.

Personally, I start the year with a business trip to Ireland, I already have commitments with Dynamic Partner Connections, and tons of webinars in conjunction with GPUG. So please stay tune to hear from those.

Until next post!

MG.-
Mariano Gomez, MVP
Intelligent Partnerships, LLC
http://www.intelligentpartnerships.com/