The Dynamics GP Blogster

It's been a week since I got back from GPUG Amplify 201 7 in Anaheim, California and tell you the truth, I am all the more excited about the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP than a lot of you might be. With all these constant rumors of the product going away or not getting the necessary TLC from Microsoft I am left to wonder, where have I heard this before :-) The truth is, Dynamics GP is alive and well, thank you! And will be for many many years to come. As it's been unveiled in Anaheim, the next couple of years - Microsoft has been producing the roadmap for only 2 years at a time ever since GP 2010 - promise to bring some really cool enhancements to the product, based on entries collected via Microsoft Connect . In particular, GP 2018 (shipping sometimes before the end of Q4) will be introducing 3 major themes that traverse the spectrum of features you would expect from an application born in the on-premise world, but that has effectively cross over to power customers lo...

Welcome to the first article in my  Revisiting series. Today I'm going to talk about the now defunct Dexterity OLE Container feature in Microsoft Dynamics GP. However, not because the technology is dead, it means that you don't have to deal with OLE notes. If you are coming from older versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP and upgrading to, say, GP 2013 R2 onward you have to be substantially aware of OLE notes: how are you going to migrate these and what is there in place to replace them. Summary In principle, OLE is a compound document technology from Microsoft based on the Component Object Model (COM) . OLE allows an object such as a graphic, video clip, spreadsheet, etc. to be embedded into a document, called the Container Application. The Dexterity OLE Container is part of the Dexterity Shared Components . In OLE compound document technology, it is the OLE client application ( CONTAIN.EXE ), which holds the linked or embedded objects. The Dexterity OLE Container first surf...

Just wow! All the new features coming out in GP 2016 are fantastic! Last week brought a new list of cool features ranging from a new All-in-One viewer Inventory, to full integration of Project Accounting with Requisitions and document attach, to support for pay runs with credit cards. Below is a link to all the published articles over at Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Dynamics GP Feature of the Day: All-In-One Document Viewer Inventory Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Project Accounting on Requisitions Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Project Accounting Document Attach Thursday, March 31, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Payables Credit Cards Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP