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Welcome to my blog! My name is Jen Kuntz, I am a CPA (CGA) and my blog is about Microsoft Dynamics GP, Excel, Power BI as well as other random topics from time to time.

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  • Dynamics GP 2018 is released!

    Today, December 1, 2017, is the release day for Dynamics GP 2018! Along with the release, we get a refresh in #FabrikamDay, to April 12, 2027, so put that in your calendar, as we will have another FabrikamDay party in 10 years. It’s a Monday… be prepared! 🙂 A calendar showing the new Fabrikam Day… (continue >)

  • Collaborate Canada 2017 Vancouver

    Today was the final event of the 4-city cross-Canada tour for Collaborate Canada. In my earlier posts, the event was aimed at users of 4 of the Dynamics product lines: GP, CRM, NAV, and AX (plus 365 in the mix with its AX/CRM/NAV counterparts). This location was easily my favourite of all of them, for… (continue >)

  • Collaborate Canada 2017 Calgary

    Today was the 3rd of the 4 city Collaborate Canada events, hosted in Calgary, Alberta. Same as the previous days, it was aimed at users of 4 of the Microsoft Dynamics product lines: AX, CRM, GP, NAV, and the applicable D365 content mixed in. Being a Tourist I got in late Saturday afternoon so I… (continue >)

  • Collaborate Canada 2017 Toronto

    Toronto was the 2nd location for the 4-city “Collaborate Canada” tour across Canada. I’m writing this nearly a week later (but the blog post date is backdated to the date of this event). The audience was quite a bit larger than Montreal, estimated to be around 200 people in total between Dynamics GP, AX, NAV, CRM… (continue >)

  • Collaborate Canada 2017 Montreal

    This was the first day of a 4 city “Collaborate Canada” tour across Canada, and the event was hosted in Montreal, Quebec. The expected audiences would be users of Dynamics AX, CRM, NAV, GP or 365. Although I enjoyed the day and the experience, I can honestly describe the day as having some “good, bad… (continue >)

  • Curious about presenting?

    Following up on the GPUG Summit last week, I thought it would be timely to write a blog to encourage others to get involved in presenting in the future! Organizers are always looking for more people to fill presentation time slots. Have you attended Summit or a local GPUG chapter meeting, or even a webinar… (continue >)

  • GPUG Summit 2017 – Getting Home & Recap

    GPUG Summit is done for another year and this is my final post on the conference, getting home and some thoughts. I’m writing this post a day after getting home since the getting home part was a long day! My earlier daily GPUG Summit posts, here they are: Tues. Oct 10th: pre-conference Wed. Oct 11th:… (continue >)

  • GPUG Summit 2017 – Day 3

    This is my 4th blog post in this series. Today, Friday, October 13th, is the 3rd & last day of GPUG Summit. The day was still full of sessions, with the last session time slot ending at 3:30 pm. Many people were leaving before that due to late afternoon flights. Those leaving Friday had to deal… (continue >)

  • GPUG Summit 2017 – Day 2

    This is my 3rd blog post in this series. My Tuesday pre-conference blog is here and Wednesday’s Day 1 blog is here. Today, Thursday, October 12th, is the 2nd full day of the GPUG Summit. It was a lot less stressful than my first day but just as jam-packed. GPUG Community session The first session… (continue >)

  • GPUG Summit 2017 – Day 1

    The official first day of GPUG Summit 2017 was Wednesday, October 11th. Yesterday was the day I arrived and that blog post can be found here. It was a full day that wiped me out, and I only managed to stay awake until 8:30 pm! GPUG Opening Session The first session of the day was… (continue >)

  • GPUG Summit 2017 – Pre-Conference

    This year’s GPUG Summit conference is in Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. Wow, it’s a big place! Here’s a summary of my first day here, Tuesday, October 10th, one day before the full conference began. Getting to Nashville Unlike some of my recent trips, there were no issues getting to… (continue >)

  • My First Year as an MVP, part 2

    This is a continuation of Part 1 of my blog… all written on the same day but broken up into two parts due to the length! NDA, Yammer and PGI, oh my! My first inclination as a new MVP was to sign up for as much of the experience as I could. Others warned me… (continue >)

  • My First Year as an MVP, part 1

    One year ago, I was notified via email of my first Microsoft MVP Award. It was a pretty surreal moment! I captured some of my thoughts and emotions in a blog post last year. Now that a year has gone by, very quickly I might add, it’s time to look back at my first year… (continue >)

  • GP Tech 2017 – Recap & Getting Home

    So, now that I’ve caught up with the daily recaps, I’m starting this post from the Minneapolis airport. I should be landing in Toronto right now, according to my original itinerary but I’m still sitting here. There is some awful weather in Toronto affecting all flights both in and out so we aren’t leaving, since… (continue >)

  • GP Tech 2017 – Day 3

    The third and last day of the GP Technical Conference 2017 was on August 10, 2017. Like other years, the last day is a half day, allowing time for either post-conference training opportunities or for attendees to get home on the same day and not lose another day to travel. My previous posts in this… (continue >)

  • GP Tech 2017 – Day 2

    Day 2 of the GP Technical Conference 2017 was on August 9, 2017. I’m writing this recap while at the airport on a flight delay (irony!), catching up on what I intended to blog each day this week. My previous posts on this series are: Getting to Fargo Day 1 recap Making Financial Data Come… (continue >)

  • GP Tech 2017 – Day 1

    Day 1 of this year’s GP Tech Conference was Tuesday, August 8, 2017. I’m writing this recap post as I sit in the airport on my way back home, as the week just came and went too quickly to get on top of these posts each day! This year’s recaps will also not quite be… (continue >)

  • GP Tech 2017 – Getting to Fargo!

    Today’s story starts 2 days ago. I was scheduled to fly in on Saturday, not today (Monday). I had registered to attend eOne Solutions‘ SmartConnect Boot Camp, a 2-day course before the conference begins. I was willingly giving up more of my Civic Holiday long weekend to learn some new skills. However, that didn’t pan… (continue >)

  • Copy & Paste Journal Entry from Excel

    This is my fifth post in the Did You Know series, tying into Pam Misialek’s series on Inside Dynamics GP. Today’s topic is the Copy-Paste from Excel feature for Journal Entries in Dynamics GP. Summary URL: https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=e51c226e-7e81-4187-8dac-08562e9d60cf Version: available since Dynamics GP 2013 R2 History If I’m not mistaken, this feature first came to light before it… (continue >)

  • Combine Budgets

    This is my fourth post in the Did You Know series, tying into Pam’s series on Inside Dynamics GP. Today’s topic is the ability to combine budgets into a master budget. This is very useful for situations where it’s easier to manage smaller budget upload files, perhaps by department or cost centre, and after they’re imported… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets Year End Close Report

    This is my third post in the Did You Know series, tying into Pam Misialek’s series on Inside Dynamics GP. This will be a fairly short post, as there is nothing to configure to “get” this new feature! Summary URL: https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=784ce3ea-cca2-41ee-9481-14ff80726fce Version: available since Dynamics GP 2015 How To This is fairly straightforward: there is… (continue >)

  • Backups from within Dynamics GP

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    This is my second post in the Did You Know series, tying into Pam Misialek’s series. This feature allows users to create a one-off backup of a database from within Dynamics GP and save it either locally or on Azure storage. Originally introduced in GP 9, the Backup to Azure was added to this feature… (continue >)

  • Reconcile a Chequebook without Transactions

    I’m going to attempt to piggyback on the Did You Know series Pam Misialek started on June 1, 2017, on the Inside Dynamics GP blog. My goal will be to look at the Did You Know topics and write a short blog to illustrate the feature. I won’t be covering all the features, but I’ll… (continue >)

  • GL Account Tables & Account Framework

    This will be a short post. A question came up today on the GPUG forums that reminded me to blog about this one. So, I thought I’d create a short article with some of the tidbits that may be useful! Account Framework When Dynamics GP is installed, one of the few non-editable decisions [1] to make… (continue >)

  • Transaction Descriptions & POP to PM MS Connect Suggestion

    This post is about transaction descriptions on POP (Purchase Order Processing) transactions. Unfortunately, if you don’t have Project Accounting installed, the reference (in the Distributions window) does not flow to the PM Transaction description field. (continue >)