Hands On With Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 RTM: First Run Of The Desktop Client

Microsoft Dynamics GPNow that Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 RTM is available, I thought I could follow my usual pattern of posting a series of posts o how to install and configure both Dynamics GP, but also the additional products which ship with it. You can find the series index for these posts here. I am assuming you already have your server built with Windows and SQL Server for this series.

In the last couple of posts, I ran through the server install and deploy of the Fabrikam Sample Company. In this post, I’ll take a quick look through the first run of the GP client.

Dynamics GP is launched using the GP icon on the Start screen. You’ll notice that the old tri-colour icon has been replaced with a simple white on dark blue background (which matches the Dynamics Community site colours) and the splash has also been redone to match. When the logon prompt appears log in using the sa account and wait while the SQL Get Messages are updated:

Welcome to Microsoft Dynamics GP

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