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The quick way to register Integration Manager
I’m working on an upgrade at a client from GP 2010 to GP 2015. Part of this involves upgrading Integration Manager to the newest version. As I opened IM the first time on a new install, I am reminded of what a pain in the butt it is to manually put the reg keys in each…
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reImagine 2015 – wrap-up
Today, as I sit in the airport in Fargo awaiting my departing flight, I’m writing this wrap-up on the week with some random thoughts and things I forgot to include earlier. These are in no particular order. Rubber Ducks A rubber duck that was in my hotel room. Did everyone else at the Hilton Garden…
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reImagine 2015 – Day 3
Today was a half-day for the official part of the conference, except for post-conference training offerings. I chose to sign up for post-conference training, as I always take advantage of something interesting if I can while I am here. I figure this week is an investment in my self-development and it’s worth taking advantage of any…
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reImagine 2015 – Day 2
Day 2 was not quite as crazy as Day 1 for me, at least I don’t feel as drained as I did yesterday at this time of day (4:00 pm as I am writing this!). I can’t speak for everyone though, I’m sure those who attended the eOne Smartner Party, their opinion on today might…
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reImagine 2015 – Day 1
It’s been a great start to day one so far (as I am writing this throughout the day to save trying to remember it all later!). This isn’t going to be about everything that happened today, however, it’s the things that were most interesting to me. Keynote & Opening Session Wayne Morris was the official keynote…
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reImagine 2015 – Arrival Day
Today started early but it was a lot better than my alternatives would have been! This year flying is easier since I’m leaving from the airport closest to me, in Kitchener, Ontario, and it is less than 30 minutes away. So a 6:45 am flight doesn’t seem too bad after all! A GP colleague who lives…
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reImagine 2015 – preparing to go to Fargo
As many others in the Dynamics GP community, I’m getting ready to head to Fargo for the annual partner conference dedicated purely to GP. This year, I vow to not pay ridiculous US roaming fees on my cell phone. Every year I feel a little bit stranded, a little bit out of touch and always…
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Azure – when you forget to turn your VM off!
An update on my Azure experiences… apparently I forgot to turn off my Azure VM one day last month. I say apparently because I don’t recall using Azure to turn it on, but perhaps I did, anticipating doing something, then forgot. It happens. Here is exactly what happened when I forgot! First, I got an…
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Pet Peeves
There are tons of situations where I find I have to follow up with people in my job. That’s the nature of my Type A personality I suppose, as well as the nature of managing different clients and projects. The truth is: I hate following up, I hate having to follow up because I have…
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Restore issue on GP 2015 drove me nuts!
I lost an evening that I’ll never get back over something so stupid I wish I had just stopped to think about this issue a little more. The situation was this: I just upgraded a client from GP 2010 to GP 2015. I didn’t upgrade the test companies, because it’s a waste of time right? So…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Wrap-Up
This is officially the last post, for the foreseeable future, on my experiences with Azure. There isn’t a ton of meat in this one, as it’s more of a “what’s happened since the last post” type of post. Since the last post I’ve done everything I said I would do at the end of my…
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FRx with Dynamics GP 2015
Recently I’ve been playing with Microsoft Azure and installing Dynamics GP 2015 on Azure, upgrading my GP 2010 test environment etc. One of the things I needed to try to get working was FRx. I haven’t gotten to the point of adding Active Directory on Azure yet, therefore I don’t have a domain and can’t…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 6
Pretty soon I’ll have to be more creative with the blog post titles! Part 193 …. geez. More stuff I’m learning: it’s way easier to install and configure Active Directory Domain Services on Azure than installing SQL Server 2014 fresh on a Windows-only VM. Seriously… I’m on my 3rd attempt to install SQL Server! In…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 5
One month has been completed, and my Azure experience cost me $18.80 for a month. So far, I haven’t left the machine running outside of when I am using it yet… hence the extremely low cost to date. And of course, it didn’t *actually* cost me anything because I was using my MPN credits. Costs…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 4
This post is a continuation of my little series of learning about Azure. Part 1 is here Part 2 is here Part 3 is here. In this post, I’m going to correct a couple of things I’ve written in the previous posts, update the costs of running this so far, and add a few more general…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 3
Day 3 of using Microsoft Azure and things are becoming a little more clear. I haven’t *done* much with actually using apps on the VM yet, more messing around with installs and configuration. This is a continuation of my first two posts on learning Azure in the context of upgrading to GP2015 for testing. Part…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 2
As I sat up til nearly 1:00 am last night (er, this morning) playing with the new Azure VM, I was thinking “This is going SO smoothly!”. I should have known it wasn’t going to be that easy. 😄 See yesterday’s “Part 1” post for the introduction to this journey I’m on, which covers why…
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Dynamics GP on Microsoft Azure – Part 1
I feel that I’m a bit behind the curve… I haven’t installed GP 2015 in my environment yet, I haven’t tried anything on Microsoft Azure yet, and I figure it is about time I started to look at both. There has been a lot of press and information about Azure, but I haven’t had the time…
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Learning new things the hard way
I’m continuing to learn more about websites, WordPress ins & outs, and CSS… the hard way! Last year I switched my website from Expression Engine to WordPress… for the most part to be on a platform that is more mainstream, ideally easier to get support on, and hopefully a platform that I could do more things…
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Spammers, go away!
If someone sends me emails (or phone me) on any of the following topics (plus many others I’ve forgotten about already): They think my website needs redesigned (it might, but I happen to like it!). They promise to improve my search engine rankings and all those SEO things (swell!). They guarantee me a lot of…
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New Year’s Resolutions 2015
Hey, look at that… another year just whooshed by! Time for another post of what I resolve to do this coming year and how I fared this past year. What Happened in 2014? This past year was a fantastic year for me personally. My highlight was playing Pebble Beach, on my birthday last April. Simply awesome, it…
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Don’t forget about your reminders!
As most of my blog topics start, this begins with a fairly standard question from a client asking why their taxes are not defaulting on their Purchase Order in Dynamics GP. This situation is something I see a lot of in various clients: Something isn’t working. They try to troubleshoot it themselves but can’t find…
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GP & Lowercase Database IDs
Some days I feel like I’m on a game show, where troubleshooting is a contest… “I’ll take strange GP errors for $400 Alex!”. Today is one of those days! One of my clients imports in SOP and Payables transactions via eConnect and then uses Postmaster Enterprise to post the batches. Today one of the QA…
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GP 2015 is released!
Right on time, Microsoft announced the release of Dynamics GP 2015 yesterday (December 1, 2014). Awesome! Tons of new features and continued advancement in the integration of data and possibilities for applications. As always, watch the Dynamics GP team blog for the most up-to-date information and new feature announcements. I’m excited for a number of…
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reImagine 2014 – Day 4
The last half of day 3 and the first part of day 4 was post-conference training that attendees could sign up in advance for. I saw there was a deep dive on Reporting and I thought “cool”… I feel a bit behind on some of the reporting tools and surely could use some in-depth training…
