Category: GP (Great Plains)

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.

With eConnect installed I can now install Integration Manager with both sets of adapters (Dynamics GP and eConnect).

To do this launch the setup utility from the installation media and, under Additional Products click on Integration Manager:

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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; the index for this series can be found here.

The first of the companion products I am going to install, is eConnect. This one needs to go first as Integration Manager requires it to be installed if you want to install the eConnect Adapters.

Before you can install eConnect, you need to have added the MSMQ Triggers Windows Feature.

Run the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Setup Utility from the installation media and, under Additional Products, click on eConnect:

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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; the index for this series can be found here.

In this post, I’m going to cover the creating of new companies in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2; to create a company, launch GP Utilities and log in using the sa account:

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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; the index for this series can be found here.

In the last post, I deployed the system database; now we can deploy the sample company.

To do this, launch GP Utilities and log in using the sa account:

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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; the index for this series can be found here.

in the previous post, the first client was installed; the next step it to deploy the System database.

Do this by launching GP Utilities from the Windows start menu. Log in using the sa account (this is one of the few times when the sa account must be used; at this time there are no other users which can be used).

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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; the index for this series can be found here.

In this, the first post of the series, I’m going to install the Dynamics GP client. In early versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP, we would have installed the server components, but these haven’t existed for a long time. Instead, the client itself is used to create the server objects (we’ll cover these in the next posts).

When installing Dynamics GP on a new machine, the first components to be installed are the prerequisites, which are installed by the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Bootstrapper Setup utility. Run this by launching the setup.exe from the installation media and click install:

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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.

Last time I did a series like this, I wondered how useful people found them, but I’ve discussed it with a few people over the last few months and the posts do seem to be regarded as useful. If you don’t see a post you’re looking for, then hold on a few days as I will be covering the installation of all of the components of Microsoft Dynamics GP R2 and related products. If you still don’t see a relevant post, then leave me a comment.

The series index, below, will automatically update each time I add a post to the series.

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On the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog, Pam Misialek has announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2.

You can download it from here.

You can read about the new features coming in my Dynamics GP 2016 R2 Feature of the Day series of posts.

Pam highlights that starting next week, the Support team will post additional technical content in their Blog Series

Dynamics GP is moving, following partner and customer feedback, to annual releases. There was a recent roadmap released which you can see here.

Microsoft are currently working on GP Next and this is your opportunity to help shape the future functionality using Microsoft Connect. I would recommend you use that site to request features or enhancements which you would like to have included in Dynamics GP.

I’m about to drive home from client site, so I can’t get my hands on it for another 7 hours or so 🙁