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.

Service Based Architecture (SBA) is a feature introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 RTM which provides a REST web service which exposes Dynamics GP business logic as service operations.

The installation is a three part process, the previous but one post in this series covered adding the SBA feature to the desktop client on the web server, the previous covered the installation of the SBA web components and this one will cover the configuration.

After the installation of the web components completes, the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Components Configuration Wizard will automatically launch. Click Next to proceed:

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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.

Service Based Architecture (SBA) is a feature introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 RTM which provides a REST web service which exposes Dynamics GP business logic as service operations.

The installation is a three part process, the previous post in this seriescovered adding the SBA feature to the desktop client on the web server, this post will cover the installation of the SBA web components and the next will cover the configuration.

To install the SBA Web Components on the web server, launch the Dynamics GP setup utility and, under Additional Products, click on Web Components:

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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.

Service Based Architecture (SBA) is a feature introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 RTM which provides a REST web service which exposes Dynamics GP business logic as service operations.

The installation is a three part process, the first of which I will cover in this post, and the remainder in the next posts of this series.

The first step is to add the SBA feature to the instance of the desktop Dynamics GP client installed on the web server. To do this open the Program and Features Control Panel applet easiest way is to press Win+R and type appwiz.cpl.

Select Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 and click on 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; the index for this series can be found here.

If you have a number of clients which need Microsoft Dynamics GP installed, this can become somewhat burdensome to ensure that they are all installed exactly the same way; if you do it manually at least. However, via the Microsoft Dynamics GP setup utility, you can build an installation package which much simplifies the job.

To create an installation package, launch the setup utility and select Create Installation Package from under the Install heading:

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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 OData Service for Microsoft Dyamics GP allows connections to be made to the Dynamics GP databases in order to run reports. To install the service, launch the Microsoft Dynamics GP setup utility and click on GP OData Service under Additional Products:

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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.

As of Microsoft Dynamics 2010, Word Templates can be used for the production of reporets such as Purchase Orders, Check Remittances and Sales Invoices, and more.

The Word Templates are fully customisable, but to get the best out of customising them, you need to have the Microsoft Dynamics GP Add-in for Microsoft Word installed. This can be found on the installation media under Additional Products:

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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 covered the installation of GP PowerShell; in this I’m going to refer back to a Hands On With Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R1 post I did back in May 2016 on how to use GP PowerShell to create a company.

Everything in that post is still relevant and unchanged in 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.

Microsoft Dynamics GP has a number of PowerShell cmdlets which can be used to, for example, create new companies. To use these cmdlets, GP PowerShell needs to be installed. Launch the setup utility and select GP PowerShell from under Additional Products:

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