The Dynamics GP Blogster

Couple days ago, I blogged about some of the top articles I wrote this past year. Today, I am in Discovery Bay (an hour away from crowded Montego Bay), Jamaica enjoying the holiday season with family and friends and looking forward to get some rest. Discovery Bay, Jamaica Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid-al-Adha, Kuanza, etc., you know how important it is to be with love ones around this time of the year. So, on behalf of my family and I, we wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you had a great 2011 too. I now leave you with this great song from Michael Buble, from his new album, Christmas. Enjoy! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP IntellPartners, LLC http://www.IntellPartners.com/

It's simply amazing! When it's all said and done, I will have published close to 160 articles for this year alone. Sometimes I find myself asking, "what will I write about next?". The truth is, I simply don't know or can't tell: I enjoy writing about issues I work on, challenges in my implementations, conferences I attend, etc. And the outlets to get my thoughts out just keep increasing. I am actively for: This site MSDynamicsWorld.com Microsoft Dynamics Community I also have Facebook and Twitter accounts to keep up with. So, when I look back at 2011 to choose the best articles of this year, I must consider the various outlets where they are published. After all, The Dynamics GP Blogster is no longer a site, but a person... me! With that said, these are some of the best articles I personally enjoyed writing this year: 1. The Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference 2011 - The Technical Conference was a great experience up in Fargo, ND. I definitel...

Scouting the Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner Online Technical Forum , I came across this interesting case, in which a partner reported seeing overlapping options text on the home page and missing picture bars. The problem, as reported by the partner, was only happening with a user on a specific workstation, but not with his domain account and Microsoft Dynamics GP user. Home page with overlapping text and missing pictures Initially, the partner attempted to reduce Internet Explorer's Internet zone's security to the bare minimum, which would allow all home page scripts to be executed, with no results. Still puzzled, they began running a ProcMon trace on Microsoft Dynamics GP to look for ACCESS DENIED events, as instructed by Microsoft's Partner Online Technical Community support engineer, Jason Larson . The partner recorded all trace results, but SUCCESS, and found the following being displayed several times in the log: FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS FAST IO DISALLOW...

It was long overdue! However, I had to wait for the right time to do this and it finally came with Decisions Fall 2011 - Dynamics GP Day . Today, my presentation on 5 Support Debugging Tool features you should be using with Microsoft Dynamics GP , featured 5 clips that are now available on my new YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure. If you had wanted to learn about the basic features in Support Debugging Tool, now you can visit The Dynamics GP Blogster YouTube Channel to watch the videos. They are recorded in full HD, scalable from 360p to 1080p - the audio quality is close to CD quality. Keep checking the Channel, since I will be posting more videos around some of the cool Microsoft Dynamics GP technologies. You can find a link to The Dynamics GP Blogster YouTube Channel on the left frame of this blog. Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP IntellPartners, LLC http://www.IntellPartners.com/

In his most recent article, Granting Access and Binding Defaults when recreating SQL Tables , my good friend, David Musgrave, points out how to drop and re-create a Microsoft Dynamics GP object with the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) database object scripting capabilities. His article overall addresses issues with objects not being properly upgraded from previous releases of Microsoft Dynamics GP to the version you are trying to upgrade to, and how to deal with these issue, so please read the articles as they contain valuable upgrade tips. However, in his article, David points out that SSMS does not generate the object permissions and bindings necessary, hence the reason for the script he created and attached to his article. The bottom line is, these are configurable settings under SSMS's SQL Server Object Explorer options. To activate scripting of permissions and bindings in SSMS, follow these steps: 1. Open SSMS and go to the Tools | Options menu. This will open the Op...

Just recently I assisted a partner with an issue they were having on a Terminal Server environment, after upgrading from Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. Upon launching Microsoft Dynamics GP, an end-user was receiving the error shown below: Dynamics.exe Error Clicking on the hyperlink for the error detail showed the following: Error Signature I have faced a number of issues of this type in the past and typically they are all narrowed down to corrupt forms and/or reports dictionaries - both Dynamics and third-parties. However, this seemed different, since other Terminal Server users were not experiencing the same issue. The Event Viewer, however, showed a bit more details about the issue: Event Viewer The Event Viewer information was in effect confirming that the faulting application was indeed the Runtime Engine, Dynamics.exe. However, interestingly enough, it was showing that the faulting module was the msvcr90.dll . In doing some search, I...

Just recently I worked on an issue being experienced by several Microsoft Dynamics GP users in a Citrix environment. The users would report that, when double-clicking on the Microsoft Dynamics GP application launch icon, the program would "automatically minimize". In doing some digging, I remembered a few Dex.ini settings that control whether the Microsoft Dynamics GP desktop shows maximized upon start up and the position at which the desktop appears. So, I took my good ol' friend Notepad and edited the DEX.INI to find the following: [General] . . WindowMax=FALSE . WindowPosX=1605 WindowPosY=902 WindowWidth=1200 WindowHeight=625 Sample DEX.INI entries As you can imagine, this problem can be easily replicated if you have a dual monitor and move the GP desktop off to a second monitor or by reducing the desktop size and moving the window off screen. The fix is also pretty simple indeed. Reset the WindowMax key value to TRUE and bring the WindowPosX and W...