The Dynamics GP Blogster

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) stage. A little primer on Software Release Lifecycle: The term "release to manufacturing", known still as "going gold", is a term used when a software product is ready to be delivered or provided to customers. At this stage most if not all .NET assemblies and components are digitally signed, allowing the customers to feel confident about the integrity and authenticity of the software they are purchasing. A copy of the RTM build known as the "gold master" or GM is sent for mass duplication - nowadays, the majority of software products are downloaded from software distribution servers, but you still get the occasional vendor that ships DVD media. RTM precedes general availability (GA), when the product is released to the public. Dynamics GP's GA is still scheduled for Sunday, May 1, 2016, at which point, customers and partners will be able to download from CustomerSource and Pa...

Week 5 was a "slow" week, but still very packed with good information. Dynamics GP gains a new licensing user type called a Named Self-Server User which allows for tighter integration into application security. Now you have your choice of creating a consolidated deposit for all cash receipts in a batch or posting each cash receipt as an individual deposit entry. Finally, you can get a lot more granular with attachments flow and editing in Doc Attach which should serve more companies through out the ecosystem. Monday, April 18, 2016 GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Named Self Serve User Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Automatically Batch Deposit Cash Receipts Wednesday, April 20, 2016 GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Manage/Edit Attachment Flows Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP

Falling a little behind on these, but I wanted to make sure I get with the program and fill you in with week 4's features. Week 4 targetted enhancements in SmartList and SmartList Designer, Workflow, and Analytical Accounting security. In particular, it's very cool that you can start out a new SmartLists Designer smart list from a favorite - certainly a time saver. Monday, April 11, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Analytical Accounting User Access Settings Monday, April 11, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Export/Import in SmartList Designer Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: SmartLists from Favorites Friday, April 15, 2016 GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Workflow Condition Management Friday, April 15, 2016 GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Workflow Reassignment Notification Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP

Curiosity is definitely something in my DNA and with all the buzz surrounding Microsoft Project "Madeira", I thought I would take some time to walk you through getting started. "Madeira", besides being a Portuguese archipielago in the North Atlantic ocean, happens to be an Microsoft's first attempt at a true Azure-based SaaS ERP built on the Dynamics NAV platform - for more information, read MVP Aleksandar Totovic -  Project Madeira - Preview  article. Project "Madeira" is still in preview mode so you can try it out for free if you are already a Microsoft Office 365 or Azure subscriber, by going to http://madeira.microsoft.com/ . As is customary with most Microsoft product landing pages, you get quite the enticing visual that just makes you want to click on that Try the preview  button. Project "Madeira" landing page After clicking on the Try the preview  button, you are taken to a Sign up page where you are asked for your organiza...

Just recently, we migrated to Visual Studio Team Services  from Visual SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server. Our migration went very smooth, with only a couple issues to report -- you can read more about these in the 2-part series here and here . During our testing phase, prior to the migration, we ran into an issue where resources were being checked out of the VSTS repository, but did not seem to check back into the repository all the way, requiring the developer to go to Visual Studio Source Control Explorer to complete the check in. We attributed this to a simple environmental issue as the developer also had been having other issues with his machine in general. He had already committed to reformat his machine so no further thought went into this. Also, it is probably a good time to mention that no one else was experiencing this problem so off we went into the sunset. Fast forward a couple weeks. After completing the migration and back working on our daily development acti...

Last week's Feature of the Day series dive into the world of exports from Excel, payroll, purchase order processing, and budgeting, presenting key enhancements to SmartLists, the handling of prepayments in purchasing, and enhancements to old foes like paycodes lookup in payroll. Monday, April 4, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Excel Export as Numbers Monday, April 4, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Inactive Pay Codes Lookup Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Prepayment on Purchase Order Thursday, April 7, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Payroll Posting Accounts Thursday, April 7, 2016 Dynamics GP 2016 Feature of the Day: Budget Import Exception Report Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP

Yesterday, in Part 1 of the series, I provided sufficient enough background on the migration and configuration process we followed to get our  Visual Studio Team Services  (VSTS) source control repository environment up and running. You can read all about it here . Today, I will focus on the two issues we ran into, which prompted us to open a couple support cases with Microsoft. Version Information Crash Typically, and under normal circumstances , you should be able to click on the version information button and obtain the changeset version history of a particular resource in the repository. In our case, clicking on this option would crash Dexterity. Resource Version Information Digging a bit into the issue, we realized that all changeset versions causing Dexterity to crash seemed to have values above 9,999 -- we looked at this through Visual Studio as Dexterity was, well, crashing. Apparently, during the migration to VSTS, changesets get new version infor...

This is the first of two articles in which I will highlight a couple issues we ran into with Dexterity, after our migration from  Visual SourceSafe  (VSS) and  Team Foundation Server  (TFS) to   Visual Studio Team Services  (VSTS). While my initial intent was to simply dive into the issues at hand, I figured I wouldn't be succesful in getting the message out without a full background in which I would explain the migration process both the Visual Studio and Dexterity configurations required to work with VSTS. The Migration Ahhh, the brave new world! Just recently I worked with my team to migrate our source code repository from VSS and TFS to VSTS. Our main goal was to make our code accessible 24/7/365 from anywhere in the world by standardizing access for all of our developers and providing a unique, consistent experience. After all, accessing code in two different repository systems is not precisely an ideal situation. We also wanted to cons...

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