Category: GP (Great Plains)

This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

With Integration Manager installed there are three things we need to do to make it ready for use.

Firstly, we nee to launch Integration Manager using right click + Run as Administrator; this ensures the registry entries are created correctly.

Secondly, we need to enter the registry key; there is no grace period with Integration Manager. After starting as Administrator, a window will popup on which you need to click Register Now:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

In the last post, I covered installing the eConnect Runtime on a client which makes it available to Integration Manager. In this post, I am going to install Integration Manager with both the standard and eConnect adaptors.

Launch the Dynamics GP Setup Utility and under Additional Products select Integration Manager. Accept the terms of the License Agreement and click Next:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

The first of the additional products I am going to install is the eConnect Runtime; this is a tool which allows you to push/pull information with Microsoft Dynamics GP using another tool such as Integration Manager (which I will install in a later post) or other applications which use eConnect.

To install the eConnect Runtime, launch the Dynamics GP Setup utility and under Additional Products select eConnect. Accept the terms of the License Agreement and click Next:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

One of the small surprises of the Fall 2021 version of Microsoft Dynamics GP is that the Intelligent section has been removed from the Dynamics GP homepage; previously there would have been a link in the top left:

It was added to help drive people to Business Central, but I don’t know a single person who actually liked the page or wanted it in Dynamics GP. I have repurposed the section for a few clients, replacing the normal content with the clients Intranet site. Even for these clients, I don’t think any of them will miss the section.

This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

With the sample company deployed and a company created, we can check that the client is working correctly by running it for the first time. Log in using the sa account and wait while the SQL Messages are added:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

When doing demos, I always have more than one company available so I can show intercompany postings or other items which may need two databases. You can create a new company in GP Utilities; log in using the sa account:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

With the system database deployed we can now either add the sample company data or create a company. I’ll create a company in a later post, but first I’m going to add the sample company data; this is the Fabrikam, Inc. which can be used for demonstrations or testing.

To add the sample company, launch GP Utilities and log in using the sa account:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

With the first Microsoft Dynamics GP client installed, we can now progres onto deploying the system database. To do this, launch GP Utilities and log in using the sa account:

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This post is part of the Hands On with Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release series where I am going to go hands on with installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Fall 2021 Release and associated products.

Microsoft Dynamics GP hasn’t had server components for quite a few years now, so the first part of installing a new version of Dynamics GP, is to install the standard client. I always recommend to clients that the SQL Server just be a SQL server, but sometimes when a system database is being created or upgraded I do, on a temporary basis, sometimes install the first client on the SQL Server.

In this set of posts, I am creating a new test environment so everything is going to be installed on the SQL Server; this is NOT a recommended approach for a production system.

I only mention it now, as the first window you will see on a PC on which you first install a component of Dynamics GP is the Bootstrapper Setup and which I will only be seeing once during the set of blog posts; click Install to install the prerequisites:

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