I’ve been working on a series of posts on a Microsoft DynamicsGP 2013 web client scale-out deployment and it has turned out to be a very long series of posts.

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Along with the web client which gives access to the normal functionality of Microsoft Dynamics GP there is also a Web Management Console which can be used by administrators to manage the web client.

The Web Management Console is accessed via the web browser by replacing the GP part of the address wit WebManagementConsole and logging in with a Domain Account which is part of the Domain Group assigned to the Web Management Console:

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The Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Client is very similar in form and function to the desktop client, but there are some differences between the two.

The first of the differences is with the menu bar. The first image below shows the menu bar in the desktop client; the second shows that of the web client. As you can see the main difference is in the absence of the drop down menus from the web client:

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With all components of the web client installed and configured, it’s time to verify that the web client is actually working correctly.

The way of doing this is quite simple; log in and check if data can be loaded, updated and saved. Open Internet Explorer and navigate to the log in page; enter your Domain user name and password:

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The Microsoft Dynamics GP web client relies on Silverlight which needs to be installed on every client. When you log into the web client, and don’t have Silverlight installed, you’ll be presented with the option to install it:

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To avoid certificate errors with the Web Client, the security certificate from the web server needs to be installed onto the client machines (i.e. all of the PCs which will be running IE to connect to the website).

Before the certificate is loaded, you’ll see the following error when navigating to the GP web client:

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The performance of the web client can be improved by installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Resource Cache.

To install the Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Resource Cache start the Setup.exe and select GP Web Resource Cache under Additional Products:

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After installing the Session Hosts you will be prompted to run the Web CLient Configuration Wizard. We ran this after installing the Session Central server to create the databases; it needs to be run again now, to tell the Session Host which Session Central Database should be used:

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