Tag: Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2

This post is part of the Hands On With Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 New Features series in which I am going hands on with the new features introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 (which was released on the 2^nd October). I reblogged the new features as Microsoft announced them along with some commentary of how I thought they would be received by both my clients and I. In this series, I will be hands on with them giving feedback of how well they work in reality.

The first feature, I am hands on with, is not one of the announced features. Instead it is a new addition to the Home Page of Microsoft Dynamics GP; Intelligent Edge. I first encountered it when I ran the Dynamics GP 2018 R2 client for the first time. I said when I first saw it, that it was not going to be either welcome or useful to clients.

I also said that I hoped someone would find a Dex.ini switch which could be used to switch it off, or re-purpose it to another site such as an Intranet site. Well, MVP David Musgrave has taken a look through the code and found three settings in the Dex.ini file and two messages which need to be updated.

Once this has been done, Intelligent Edge will be no more; instead a useful page can be displayed:

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In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on with the new features introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 which was released on the 2^nd October. I reblogged the new features as Microsoft announced them along with some commentary of how I thought they would be received by both my clients and I. In this series, I will be hands on with them giving feedback of how well they work in reality.

This post is the series index and will automatically update as new posts go-live.

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

The Microsoft Dynamics GP Add-in for Microsoft Word was introduced with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 to allow the Word templates to be amended by adding additional fields (changes to relocate or remove fields do not require the add-in).

It is a nice simple install which is only needed on computers used by the people who maintain the Word templates. To install it, launch the setup utility and, under the Additional Products heading, select Microsoft Dynamics GP Add-in for Microsoft Word:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

In an early post of this series, I installed the Microsoft Dynamics GP client; while installing the client isn’t complicated, it is easy to get the wrong features selected during the installation. There is a way of building an installation package which automates the selection of langauges, features and paths.

Creating an installation package is done via the setup utility; select Create Installation Package from under the Install heading:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

Now that we have Integration Manager installed, we can run it.

Running Integration Manager as administrator is required to ensure that relevant permissions are correctly set; the license key also needs to be installed.

Launch Integration Manager from the Windows Start menu by right-clicking and selecting Run as Administrator. Once it has started, a Register Now/Later dialog will be displayed. Click Register Now:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

In the last post, I installed eConnect on the client to make the eConnect adaptors available to Integration Manager; in this post, I am going to install Integration Manager.

To do this, launch the setup utility and select Integration Manager from under the Additional Products heading:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

I already stepped through the installation of eConnect on the server, but eConnect is also needed on the client in order to use the eConnect adaptors in Integration Manager.

To install eConnect on a client PC, launch the setup utility and select eConnect under the Additional Products header:

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

GP PowerShell can be used to create companies and other actions. The following example shows how GP PowerShell can be used to create a new company:

The supplied parameters and their values are:

• -GPClientDirectory “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics\GP2018”
• -SqlAdmin “sa”
• -SqlAdminPassword “password”
• -SqlServerName “SERVER\GP”
• -CompanyName “azurecurve Publishing”
• -CompanyDbName “A18R2”
• -SqlMdfFilePath “C:\SQLServer\Data\”
• -SqlMdfFileName “GPSA18R2Dat.mdf”
• -SqlLdfFilePath “C:\SQLServer\Data\”
• -SqlLdfFileName “GPSA18R2Dat.ldf”

the text between the quotation marks needs to be changed to the values you want to use to create the company.

Enter the cmdlet and parameters into GP PowerShell and hit return and the cmdlet will launch GP Utilities and create the new company; if you have any missing parameters or errors the launch will fail (usually with a less than helpful message).

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 was released on the 2^nd October. In this series of posts, I’ll be going hands on and installing the majority of the components; some of them, such as Analysis Cubes for Excel, which are little used, I won’t be covering.

The series index will automatically update as posts go-live in this series.

After install GP PowerShell, to make sure it has installed correctly, we can use the Get-Command statement to get the available GP PowerShell commands.

Launch the relevant version of GP PowerShell from the Windows Start menu and type the following command:

Get-Command -module GP2018

In the next post, I’ll show how to create a company using PowerShell.