Category Archives: FRx

FRx Error 9060 during the CreateZIPfile procedure

Posted on 23rd March 2012 by Ian Grieve

A client recently tried to run their month end reports in FRx and got the below error message;

FRx Error 9060 during the CreateZIPfile procedure

Posted in Dynamics, FRx, Microsoft | Tagged Errors, FRx, GP, Installation, Microsoft Dynamics | 2 Comments

How To Create A Domain Controller

Posted on 28th December 2011 by Ian Grieve

The release of Management Reporter brought several advantages over FRx; x64 compatibility, replacement of the Access database with SQL Server and a modern client among them. However, one of the downsides is that Management Reporter requires a domain to be available for both the installation and running.

Where FRx could be run on any PC or laptop regardless of the operating system, Management Reporter can only be run on a server OS. This means that the Business Development Managers, and I, need either a laptop with Windows Server 2008, or better the R2 version, installed or we need a VM with the same. To make everyday life easier I opted for the latter as I can install it once and then copy the VM between machines.

I am a Microsoft Dynamics GP consultant by training, certification and experience but I don’t have a huge amount of experience with Active Directory. I am the most knowledgeable here about installing GP and Management Reporter though, so it falls to me to do the setup of the demo systems and I figured I might as well do the full monty rather than getting someone else to install the operating system and then passing it back to me.

To this end I needed to learn how to install and configure Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) and I thought it best to document here for anyone else interested and also for my own future reference. Continue reading →

Posted in Dynamics, FRx, GP, Management Reporter, Microsoft, Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Tagged Active Directory, DNS, GP, Installation, Installation & Configuration, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 | 3 Comments

Transferring GP To A New Server Without Resetting All Passwords

Posted on 20th December 2011 by Ian Grieve

One of the annoyances when migrating a client’s installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP to a new server is that, unless the new server has the same name as the old one, the password of every user needs to be reset as the server name is encrypted in with the password.

The is another alternative though and that is to create a DNS CNAME Alias and use this as the server name in the SQL Server ODBC instead of the servers actual name. When GP is migrated to a new box you only need to amend the DNS CNAME Alias and users can continue logging in with the same password. Continue reading →

Posted in Dynamics, FRx, GP, Management Reporter, Microsoft | Tagged Configuration, DNS, FRx, GP, Installation & Configuration, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, Microsoft SQL Server, ODBC | 6 Comments

Missing Font Causes Crash In Management Reporter

Posted on 5th December 2011 by Ian Grieve

I’ve recently been doing some work for a client where we’ve upgraded them from Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 to 2010 R2. Alongside this, we also migrated them from FRx to Management Reporter.