Author: Ian Grieve

This is the sixth post in the series on installing, configuring and preparing the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP for use. So far I’ve covered the prerequisites, installation process, configuration, verification of the install and security configuration.

In this post, I’m going to show the installation of the Management Tools on a client machine; in this case AZC-DESK1 which is running Windows 7 Enterprise.

The Management Tools are installed off the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 installation media. When you run up the setup utility, the standard Microsoft Dynamics GP 210 Bootstrapper Setup will run to install the prerequisites;

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Microsoft have started the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog.

The twenty seventh feature they’ve announced is Email for 64-bit Microsoft Office.

Users will now have the ability to use 64-bit Microsoft Office when utilizing the email functionality within Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. In previous versions, an installation of the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office was needed in order to use the email functionality.

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This is the fifth post in the series on installing, configuring and preparing the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP for use. So far I’ve covered the prerequisites, installation process, configuration and verification.

In this post, I’ve going to give a run through of configuring of Web Services Security Administrators.

Open the Dynamics Security Console (Windows Start menu » All Programs » Administrative Tools » Dynamics Security Console) and select the Microsoft Dynamics Security node;

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Microsoft have started the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog.

The twenty sixth feature they’ve announced is Reconcile Bank Reconciliation to General Ledger.

In Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Microsoft have added the Bank Reconciliation module to the Reconcile to GL routine, which was first introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 10, to help users analyse differences between the checkbook balances in the Checkbook Balance Inquiry window and the associated General Ledger cash account for the checkbook.

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Microsoft have started the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog.

The twenty fifth feature they’ve announced is Consolidated Invoicing.

With this feature and pick, pack and ship advanced distribution functionality, you can combine several shipments/fulfillment orders made over a period of time into a combined invoice, thus reducing the number of invoices generated for a customer.

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In this series’ three previous posts, I’ve covered the prerequisites, the installation process and configuration.

In this post, I’m going to cover the steps needed to verify the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP have been installed and are working correctly.

The first step is to check that the two services created and present and running. To do this open the Services console in the Windows Start menu’s Administrative Tools group.

The first of the services is the eConnect for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Integration Service service;

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Microsoft have started the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog.

The twenty fourth feature they’ve announced is Requisitions List.

This is another US Human Resources series feature. Customers will now have the ability to quickly see a listing of Requisitions within Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013.

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This is the third in a series of posts covering the installation and configuration of the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. The first post covered the prerequisites and the second one the installation process. In this post, I’m going to show how to configure the Web Services.

Before running the Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Dynamics GP it is recommended to make a backup of the SQL Server databases (system and all companies).

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Microsoft have started the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Feature of the Day series on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog.

The twenty third feature they’ve announced is Mandatory Arrears Templates & Reminders.

This feature is another of those in the US centric Human Resources series.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Deduction in Arrears now supports templates for calculating and posting mandatory arrears. Template creation and mandatory arrears reminders make the calculation process easier and more automated.

Mandatory arrears reminders are reminder tasks. You specify whether a reminder is generated and what security task drives the recipients. Additionally, multiple sets of arrears can be posted at once using the new batch posting feature. The Mandatory arrears reports now include template data.

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