Author: Ian Grieve

Ian is a Microsoft Dynamics GP certified consultant specialising in the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics GP projects and currently the Lead ERP Consultant for ISC Software Ltd., a Microsoft Partner, VAR and ISV in England. Ian has worked with Microsoft Dynamics GP since 2003 and, over the nine years since, has dealt with all aspects of the product life-cycle from presales, to implementation, to technical and functional training, to post go-live support and subsequent upgrades and process reviews. In his spare time, Ian runs the azurecurve | Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant blog dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics GP and related products.

Coming Soon: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook

Thursday 11th Apr 2013Tuesday 23rd Apr 2013 Ian Grieve2 minute read3 Comments

With an expected release date of June 2013, the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook is to be released.

This is an update to the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 by Mark Polino, which was released three years ago. With the new version of Dynamics GP 2013 being released in December last year, it was time for a new version of the book to be written and with Mark was otherwise engaged writing the Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 so Packt Publishing approached me and asked if I would write the update.

So, in June this year the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook by Ian Grieve and Mark Polino will be released;

With this book you will:

Understand the various tips and tricks to master Dynamics GP, and improve your system’s stability in order to enable you to get work done faster
Discover how to solve real world problems in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 with easy-to-understand and practical recipes
Access proven and effective Dynamics GP techniques from authors with vast and rich experience in Dynamics GP

You can pre-order the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook direct from Packt Publishing.

Review of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications – Part 5

Thursday 11th Apr 2013 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

I started reviewing Leslie Vail’s book, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications, which was published at the end of December by Packt Publishing, a few weeks ago. To do this review I decided to take a read through and complete all the examples she gives on developing an application as I’ve only had very limited experience with Dexterity;

Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications by Leslie Vail

Today, it is time for part 5 of my review where I look at Chapter 6: Deploying a Dexterity Solution where Leslie covers the following key topics:

System requirements
Versions and builds
Table creation routines
Completing the application
Creating the chunk file
Testing in a multi-dictionary environment
Distributing the completed application

This chapter has a fair bit of explanatory text covering each of the key topics.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client First Run On A Client

Wednesday 10th Apr 2013Sunday 14th Sep 2014 Ian Grieve2 minute read4 Comments

Over the last few posts, I’ve covered the installation of the Web Client Runtime, added the IIS role, created a self-signed certificate, installed the Web Client, ran the Configuration Wizard, and installed the GP Resource Web Cache. Now it is time to run the Web Client for the first time to ensure required components are installed on a client; I’m installing a new demo machine so I know one component won’t be installed.

Navigate to the address if the site hosting the Web Client. In the case when you have a self-signed security certificate (which I would only advise for demo or test systems) you will be presented with a warning that the site may not be safe; this is the one time I will recommend to someone that they go against the browser’s advice and click Continue to this website (like my credit card company, MBNA, who have a site with an invalid certificate, going on for six years now, and have the security team advise people to accept the invalid certificate and proceed);

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Review of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications – Part 4

Saturday 6th Apr 2013Saturday 6th Apr 2013 Ian Grieve1 minute read2 Comments

I started reviewing Leslie Vail’s book, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications,which was published at the end of December by Packt Publishing, a few weeks ago. To do this review I decided to take a read through and complete all the examples she gives on developing an application as I’ve only had very limited experience with Dexterity;

Today I’m taking a look at Chapter 5 which covers sanScript and how to add it to windows to enable the required functionality. The key topics to be covered are:

Introduction to sanScript
Scrolling Windows
Triggers

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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications eBook Giveaway Winners

Wednesday 3rd Apr 2013 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

I recently had three e-copies to giveaway of Leslie Vail’s book, Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications.

The ebook giveway was in association with the publisher of the book, Packt Publishing.

Thanks very much all who entered, but unfortunately there could only be three winners who have now been contacted by Packt on the email address supplied with their entries in the giveaway.

The winners are (in no particular order, beyond ladies first);

Jennifer H
Bruce E
Scott S

For those unfortunate not to win, you can purchase Leslie’s book either direct from Packt Publishing or via Amazon:

Amazon UK	Amazon US

Thanks again to those who entered.

How To Install Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client: Installing The GP Web Resource Cache

Tuesday 2nd Apr 2013Friday 7th Dec 2018 Ian Grieve1 minute read2 Comments

With the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client installed and configured the Web Client is now available for use. However, there is one final additional product which can be installed from the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 setup utility and that is the GP Web Resource Cache which improves performance by enabling web client caching.

On a multi-machine deployment the GP Web Resource Cache should be installed on each Session Host machine.

Launch the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 setup utility and under Additional products select GP Web Resource Cache;

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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 by Mark Polino

Monday 1st Apr 2013Saturday 13th Dec 2014 Ian Grieve1 minute read3 Comments

Following on relatively quickly from Leslie Vail’s new Microsoft Dynamics GP book, , available from Packt Publishing, comes Mark Polino with Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013.

This book will teach you how to build a dashboard using Excel 2013 with information from Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, how to make Excel a true business intelligence tool with charts, sparklines and slicers and show how to utilise PowerPivot’s full potential to create even more complex dashboards;

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DynamicAccounting.net has moved to DynamicAccounting.net

Monday 1st Apr 2013 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

Okay not actually as confusing as the title suggests but Mark Polino has migrated hs blog from Blogspot to Wordpress and now has the address www.DynamicsAccounting.net pointing to the blog so update your bookmarks and go to the new site for his regular updates on happenings in the Dynamics GP community.

Mark has kept a theme very similar to the one on the Blogspot version so you should be able to adapt to the new site and keep up to date without any problems.

It also marks another GP blog using Wordpress along with Victoria Yudin, Ian Stewart, Vaidy Mohan, Sivakumar Venkataraman and I.

How To Install Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client: Running The Configuration Wizard

Tuesday 26th Mar 2013 Ian Grieve1 minute read5 Comments

In the last post, I showed how to install the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client; the next step is to run the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client Configuration Wizard from the Windows Start menu;

Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client Configuration Wizard - Welcome

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Review of Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications – Part 3

Sunday 24th Mar 2013 Ian Grieve2 minute read2 Comments

After slacking off a lot in terms of reviewing Leslie Vail’s book Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications, which was published at the end of December by Packt Publishing, I’m going to try to get a regular tempo of review posts going. Today I’m here with the review for chapter 4;

This chapter is all about Building the User Interface which Leslie does by getting the reader to build an interface for customer contacts integration and covers: