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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Now Available

Posted on 2nd January 2013 by Ian Grieve

After what felt like a really long wait, but in reality was to the announced timeline, 19th December 2012 saw Microsoft announce the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog.

As Errol Schoenfish, Director Product Management at Microsoft, said in the announcement, this version of Microsoft Dynamics GP allows customers to access it either via the traditional desktop client or, at no extra license cost, through an innovative new Web Client presented via Silverlight in Microsoft Internet Explorer. I think the web client is a really good addition to GP with the interface looking very clean and modern and means whether the user is in the office, at home or on the road, they can access information when they need it and in a web client which has the same structure as the familiar desktop client.

In addition to the Web Client, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 has seen the addition of more than 120 new features and capability enhancements to the already rich and comprehensive business management functionality; a sample of the new features can be seen in the Microsoft announced Feature of the Day.

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Hands On With The Management Reporter 2012 Web Client

Posted on 17th December 2012 by Ian Grieve

These days I find that time passes far too quickly. Turns out it was on the 14th November that RU3 of Management Reporter was released and I said I’d do some posts on the web client part of it. Well, time flies but I’ve finally found the time to do the post I promised.

When I downloaded Management Reporter 2012 Rollup 3 I did what quite a few people seem to have done and looked for the web client installer within the setup utility. Well, it turns out there isn’t one as it is all handled by the server install. To view a report in the MR 2012 web client all you need to do is output the file to a network location or SharePoint. I’ve gone the easiest route and output the file to a network share.

In the Report Designer, open a Report Definition and switch to the Output and Distribution tab and change the radio button to Generate to multiple report library locations. In this case my report is being output to Library/P&L and if I click on it I can then choose to set a Related Report Link Location which I have set to the shared Dynamics Central location on my server;

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Posted in Dynamics, GP, Management Reporter, Microsoft, Web Viewer | Tagged GP, Internet Explorer, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Reporting, Rollups, Service Packs, Web Client | 2 Comments

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 19th December Release

Posted on 6th December 2012 by Ian Grieve

Yeserday Errol Schoenfish, on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog announced the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 on 19th December.

“Our December product releases deliver significant value to customers through simple-to-use and easy-to-implement business solutions,” said Kirill Tatarinov, president, Microsoft Business Solutions. “This wave of new Microsoft Dynamics’ capabilities, together with Microsoft’s innovative social, mobile, collaboration, productivity and analytics resources, inspires people to do their best work and transform their businesses.”

I’m looking forward to this release of Dynamics GP as there ae many new features included which clients have been asking about for a long time. For Partners there is also the mutli-tenant database and web services architecture as well as the web client (complimented by a web client for Management Reporter 2012 that was made available with Rollup 3).

I’ve been tracking the Feature of the Day announcements made by Pam Misialek, and team, and you can read about them by following the MDGP 2013 Feature of the Day tag.

Posted in Dynamics, GP, Microsoft | Tagged Announcements, GP, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, New Release, Web Client | 1 Comment

Management Reporter 2012 RU3 Now Available (With Included Web Client)

Posted on 14th November 2012 by Ian Grieve

On the 12th November, RU3 for Management Reporter 2012 was released.

Full information available here and it can be downloaded here.

Management Reporter 2012 RU3 brings a web client (reports can be deployed to a network share or to SharePoint depending on preference), the Financial Reporting Data Mart for Dynamics GP (good for dealing with large datasets), the ability to report against Dynamics GP General Ledger and Analytical Accounting information using a single company as well as more than 35 bugs.

I’ll be doing some more posts on MR 2012 RU3 over the coming couple of weeks so stay tuned.

Posted in Analytical Accounting, Dynamics, GP, Management Reporter, Microsoft | Tagged Analytical Accounting, Corporate Performance Management, CPM, Financials, General Ledger, GP, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, New Release, Reporting, Service Packs | 4 Comments

Management Reporter Web-based Report Viewer Announced

Posted on 12th September 2012 by Ian Grieve

At the Dynamics GP 2013 Technical Airlift in Fargo today a web-based viewer for Management Reporter 2012 was announced (details on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog).

The demo was done by Jill Carter of Microsoft in front of 400 partners. The new web-based viewer allows allows users to experience the many features of the desktop viewer without the need for a desktop client to be installed.

The fresh, modern user interface of the new Management Reporter Report Viewer will mean users can focus on the data in the report. And, reports are both personalized and secured. In the report shown above, the user has access to the Production and Sales nodes in the Management Reporter Reporting Tree, but doesn’t have access to the Administration node;

Management Reporter Web-based Report Viewer

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Posted in Dynamics, Management Reporter, Microsoft | Tagged Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Web Viewer | 2 Comments

Management Reporter 2012 Doesn’t Process Reports In Queue

Posted on 1st August 2012 by Ian Grieve

I was on site with a client last week to do training on various parts of the system, one of which was Management Reporter.

Before the training started, I was alerted to the fact that Management Reporter had stopped working. We ran through a few issues such as the Microsoft Dynamics GP adapter disappearing from the Configuration Console (we re-added it), the Application Service was not running and couldn’t be started (it had been setup by the client using the Network Service and for some reason stopped working; we changed it to Local System and was able to restart the service but I’ve advised them to change both Management Reporter services to a Domain User account).

Once everything was set up and apparently working we encountered the final problem. When we tried to produce a report, it was added to the Management Reporter queue where it remained and did not move to a status of Processing.

I found a website discussing changing the SQL Server broker on the ManagementReporter database to true (and it was set to false) so I did this but no luck.

A little more prodding and poking at both Management Reporter and SQL Server, and I turned up the problem which was actually a fairly obvious one.

The ManagementReporter database was owned by Domain\Administrator. Running the below script to change the database owner to sa resolved the problem and allowed the reports to be processed;



sp_changedbowner 'sa'

Fortunately the investigation and resolution didn’t take a long time so we were able to do the full length training session.

Posted in Dynamics, Management Reporter, Microsoft | Tagged Installation & Configuration, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Reporting, Setup | 4 Comments

Management Reporter 2012 Rollup 2 Released

Posted on 31st July 2012 by Ian Grieve

I typically like to see rollups come out as they tend to fix bugs and add new features but yesterday I advised a customer to install rollup 1 for Management Reporter.

Hopefully, I can catch them first thing in the morning and get them onto rollup 2 instead, of which Sivakumar has just announced the release on the Dynamics Partner Technical Services team blog.

Rollup 2 can be downloaded from here (CustomerSource or PartnerSource login required).

This one adds support for SQL Server 2012 as well as other bug fixes and enhancements to the currency translation.

Posted in Dynamics, Management Reporter, Microsoft, SQL Server, SQL Server 2012 | Tagged Installation, Installation & Configuration, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Multicurrency, Reporting, Rollups | Leave a comment

Management Reporter 2012 for Microsoft Dynamics ERP Rollup 1 Released

Posted on 22nd May 2012 by Ian Grieve

I’m slightly late in posting this one but I figure it might still be a useful post to make.

On 30th April 2012 Microsoft released Rollup 1 for Management Reporter 2012 for Microsoft Dynamics ERP which includes an updated Migration Wizard [PDF] which was missing from Management Reporter 2012 until now.

Rollup 1 can be downloaded here (PartnerSource or CustomerSource login required).

Posted in Dynamics, Management Reporter, Microsoft | Tagged Downloads, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Rollups, Service Packs | 4 Comments

How To Install A Domain Controller In Windows 8 Server Consumer Preview

Posted on 17th April 2012 by Ian Grieve

At the start of this year I did a post on how to install a domain controller in Windows Server 2008 R2 (and I think the method would work back to 2003 as well). However, with the release, albeit of the Consumer Preview, of Windows 8 Server (Windows Server 2013 on release?) that post is out of date.

I say it is out of date because when I tried to run it I got the following message;

Active Directory Domain Services Installer - The Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard is relocated in Service Manager. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=220921

So for those of you who, like myself, are preparing a test environment using Windows 8 Server Consumer Preview, SQL Server 2012, Management Reporter 2012 for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 (when it arrives) here is a walk through of creating a domain controller on Windows 8 Server Consumer Preview. Please note this is not a guide that should be used on a production environment; it is solely intended for creating a demo or test environment; I am a Microsoft Dynamics GP specialist, not a Windows Active Directory one.

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Posted in Dynamics, GP, Management Reporter, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 8 | Tagged GP, Installation, Installation & Configuration, Management Reporter, Management Reporter 2012, Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2, Reporting, Windows 8 Server Consumer Preview, Windows Server | 2 Comments

How To Install Management Reporter 2012 – Client Installation

Posted on 10th April 2012 by Ian Grieve

Last week I posted the start of a series of posts on how to install Management Reporter 2012; how to install Management Reporter 2012 – Server Prerequisites, how to install Management Reporter 2012 – Server Installation and how to configure Management Reporter 2012.

Todays post is the final post in the series on how to install Management Reporter and covers the client installation.

The client installer is part of the same installation package as the server installation (download available here (PartnerSource or CustomerSource login required).

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