Tag: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components; the index for this series can be found here.

I’ve encountered this particular issue around the prerequisites so rarely, that I usually forget to mention it.

When installing the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP there is a step where the SQL Server Connection Information is entered. This is the server where the Dynamics Security data will be stored.

You will receive the following message when clicking Next if the Windows user account you’re logged in as, is not a SQL Server sysadmin:

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Following the announcement by Microsoft back in June last year of a partnership with Jet Reports, the future of Management Reporter has been a topic of conversation amongst the community with rumours constantly swirling that Management Reporter would disappear from the Microsoft Dynamics GP space.

On the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP team blog, Pam Misialek has posted a Management Reporter Fact Check:

• Management Reporter is available and fully supported by Microsoft. It is still included in the Starter Pack and will continue to be.
• Management Reporter will ship with GP Next later this calendar year and will ship in future releases as well.
• Microsoft are looking for any feature enhancements ideas which can be added to the product.
• HTTP support was added for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2
• Management Reporter will not go fully to the cloud in a multi-tenant environment. It can be used in the cloud, with a RDP connection.

Management Reporter is technically a separate product because it works across all Dynamics products. So what? Who cares? It works great at creating financial statements.

I’ve just found a page on CustomerSource called the Microsoft Dynamics GP Directory and it looks like it has been in existence for quite a while as it has links to information on Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 through to 2016 R2.

The links include Top Reasons to Buy Microsoft Dynamics GP, Top Reasons to Upgrade as well as links to the Feature Blog Series, System Requirements, Service Pack, Hotfix and Compliance Update Patch Releases and much more.

I got to the page from the Dynamics GP Support and Services Blog post on the which I got to through David Musgrave’s post on Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 New Features .

Just shows it is worth reading around the blogs on Dynamics GP.

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

in this post, I am “hands on” with the Save Fixed Assets With Suffix Feature of the Day, which was the fifteenth feature.

When this feature was announced, I said I was puzzled by it as I thought you already could, but when testing found that in GP 2016 R1, you could change the Suffix, but GP wasn’t happy and produced a number of errors.

Mark Polino also thought this was not a new feature, but the return of a , possibly inadvertently, removed feature.

The Asset General Information window (Financial >> Cards >> Fixed Assets >> General) now allows you to overtype the Suffix field (to the right of the Asset ID field:

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The thirteenth Feature of the Day I am going “hands on” with is POP to FA Link to Include Taxes.

This feature will be popular with some of our clients who deal with non-recoeverable VAT (VAT is a UK sales tax charged at a standard rate of 20%) as non-rec VAT means they would need to depreciate the gross value of the asset including VAT where in previous versions the asset would be created net and need to be amended.

To use this feature, the Include Tax in Acquisition Cost checkbox on the Fixed Assets Company Setup window (Financial >> Setup >> Fixed Assets >> Company) under the Purchasing Options:

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The tenth Feature of the Day I’m going “hands on” with is the Bank Reconciliation Tracks History one which introduced a new window on the Financial Routines menu:

To use this feature, decide if all, a range or one Checkbook should have its reconciliation history moved to history.

Mark the checkbox next to the type of transactions which should be moved and enter a Cut Off date; although the date field is aligned with the Reconciled Deposit Transactions, it apples to all of the transaction types.

Click Process to perform the move of reconciled transactions to history.

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The feature I am going “hands on” with is the ninnth Feature of the Day, GL Distribution Line Display UI change.

The status of the scrolling window on the Payables or Distribution Zoom window are remembered:

As with the GL Distribution Line Display UI Change feature, the settings for this feature are stored in the SY01402 table (System User Defaults) in the system database, which is typically called DYNAMICS.

Again is closed and 1 is expanded; the Payables Management setting is where the syDefaultType column is equal to 107 and Receivables Management is 111.

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The eighth Feature of the Day, which I am “hands on” with in this post, was Link Credit Card Invoices To Original Invoice.

To test this feature, I entered, posted and paid an invoice for Attractive Telephone Co. for $1,000:

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

The feature I am going “hands on” with is the seventh Feature of the Day, GL Distribution Line Display UI change.

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With the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 it’s time for a series of “hands on” posts where I go through the installation of all of it’s components and also look at the new functionality introduced; the index for this series can be found here.

In this post, I’m going “hands on” with the sixth of the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2 Feature of the Day posts, Display Tax Percent for Historical Sales Transactions.

To test this feature, I created a new Tax Detail in Tax Detail Maintenance (Administration >> Setup >> Company >> Tax Details) for a Sales series Standard Rated UK VAT at 20% and created a related Tax Schedule:

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