Category Archives: GP Utilities

How To Install Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 – How To Create A Company

The Microsoft Dynamics GP sample company, which I showed how to install in the last post, is good for doing a demo or for testing, but in the real world most sites will never deploy the sample company. Instead their efforts will be focused on creating a company to host their own data, which is what we’re going to take a look at in this post.

New companies are created using GP Utilities (Windows Start menu >> All Programs >> Microsoft Dynamics >> GP 2013 >> GP Utilities) and login using the sa password;

Welcome to Microsoft Dynamics GP Utilities

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How To Deploy The Demo Company In Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010

In the last couple of posts, I showed how to configure the server of Microsoft Dynamics GP by creating the System database and how to create a new company. In this post I’m going to run through deploying the Fabrikam, Inc. demo company.

To create the company, open GP Utilities (Windows Start menu >> All Programs >> Microsoft Dynamics >> GP Utilities) by right clicking and select Run as Administrator. Log in as the SQL System Administrator (sa);

Welcome to Microsoft Dynamics GP Utilities

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How To Create A Company In Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010

In the last post, I showed how to configure the server of Microsoft Dynamics GP by creating the System database. In this post I’m going to run through the company creation process.

To create the company, open GP Utilities (Windows Start menu >> All Programs >> Microsoft Dynamics >> GP Utilities) by right clicking and select Run as Administrator. Log in as the SQL System Administrator (sa);

Welcome to Microsoft Dynamics GP Utilities

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How To Install Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 – Server Configuration

In the last post I explained how to install the Microsoft Dynamics GP client and in this one I’m going to cover the server configuration. There is no server installation as such, as this can all be done from any client installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP.

To configure the Microsoft Dynamics GP server, right click on GP Utilities and choose Run as Administrator (Windows Start menu >> All Programs >> Microsoft Dynamics >> GP 2010) and log in as the SQL System Administartor (sa);

Welcome to Microsoft Dynamics GP Utilities

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Unknown Error Creating Demo Company

This is another mea culpa post; I’ve been doing enough of them I’m thinking of giving them their own tag.

I was created a virtual machine with the Fabrikam, Inc. demo company in it. When GP Utilities was processing I got this error pop up;

Microsoft Dynamics GP Utilities - An unknown error occurred when initialising tyhe conversion.

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