Hands On With MDGP 2018 RTM: Configure eConnect Service

Microsoft Dynamics GPMicrosoft Dynamics GP 2018 RTM has now been released. In this series of posts, I will be stepping through the installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP and additional products and then will move on to taking a look at the new functionality which has been introduced.

The series index for this series of posts is here and will automatically update as posts go live.

With eConnect installed on the server, there are a couple of pieces of configuration which need to be done. The first is covered in this blog post, and that is the configuration of the eConnect Service.

Perfect Image maintain and support a Dexterity Extension written by a company which is no longer a Microsoft Dynamics partner; this customisation receives transactions via eConnect from an external line of business system. The default configuration results in timeouts if the eConnect service isn’t configured to receive large messages; which basically means adding the following to the Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.eConnect.Service.exe.config file:

receiveTimeout="infinite"

To add this element to the bindings node of the configuration file, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\eConnect 18.0\Service.

Edit the node so it looks like the below and then save the file:

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Stop and restart the eConnect service to ensure the change is picked up.

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Hands On With MDGP 2018 RTM: Install eConnect on Server

Microsoft Dynamics GPMicrosoft Dynamics GP 2018 RTM has now been released. In this series of posts, I will be stepping through the installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP and additional products and then will move on to taking a look at the new functionality which has been introduced.

The series index for this series of posts is here and will automatically update as posts go live.

With the eConnect prerequisites configured or installed (as appropriate), eConnect can now be installed on the server. eConnect is installed from the setup.exeRun on each one as it appears:

Click Install on the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 Bootstrapper Setup:

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 Bootstrapper Setup

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eConnect 18 Prerequisites: Install MSMQ Triggers

Microsoft Dynamics GPMicrosoft Dynamics GP 2018 RTM has now been released and I am in the middle of a series of Hands On posts. As part of thsat series, I am about to cover the installation of the eConnect additional product on a server configured for receiving messages via the MSMQ. However, there are two prerequisites which need to be dealt with before eConnect can be installed on the server.

Usually, when doing Hands On posts, I only cover the core installs and only mentioned prerequisites such as this, referring back to old posts were necessary, but it appears I’ve only made references previously to what you have to do, without actually blogging about it. So, this series on the eConnect prerequisites, is going to be a brief diversion from the Hands On series, which will resume tomorrow.

The eConnect 18 Prerequisites series index can be found here.

Before eConnect can be installed and configured to receive messages from the Microsoft Message Queue, the Message Queuing Triggers need to be installed. This is done via Server Manager:

Click Add roles and features link:

Server Manager

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