The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog has started a series Feature of the Day posts for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 RTM; as the most recent versions have been, these posts are in the form of PowerPoint slides; I am reposting them here so they can be read more easily as well as adding my won commentary.

The series index for this series of posts is here.

This delayed Feature of the Day (I think I missed the official post when it was posted) is One Payment Per Vendor/Invoice Setting on the Vendor Card which allows the user to decide, on a per vendor basis, if one payment should be produced per vendor or invoice:

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Microsoft 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 Service and the eConnect Incoming Queue configured, the final step is to configure permissions of the queue to accept messages.

Launch Computer Management from the Control Panel on the eConnect server. Expand the following nodes:

• Services and Applications
• Message Queuing
• Private Queues

Right click on econnect_incoming and select Properties

In the Group or users names list, select Everyone and set Permissions for Everyone to Full Control. Click OK to accept the changes

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Microsoft 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 Service configured, the next step is to configure the Incoming Queue.

This configuration change is done in the eConnect_Incoming.exe.config file which is located, by default, in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\eConnect 18.0\Service\Incoming Service:

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Microsoft 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:

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

Microsoft 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:

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Microsoft 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 installing eConnect, the service account it will run under needs to be configured as a local administrator. Do this by launching the Computer Management Control Panel applet.

Expand the following nodes in the navigation tree:

1. System Tools
2. Local Users and Groups
3. Groups

Double click on the Administrators group in the central list of groups:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 RTM has now been released and I am in the middle of a series of Hands On posts.

As part of that 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.

eConnect 18 Prerequisites
Set Service Account as Local Administrator
Install MSMQ Triggers