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by David Musgrave (Perth, WA, Australia) and the Microsoft Dynamics GP Developer Support Team (Fargo, ND, USA)
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11-Jul-2008: Blog Created by David Musgrave.
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Automating Distribution of Customizations
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference 2009 Wrap Up
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Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Beta
Microsoft Dynamics Convergence Atlanta 2010 Wrap Up
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Getting the most out of your Microsoft Dynamics GP Community
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference 2011 - Wrap Up
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Microsoft Convergence 2012 Houston - Wrap Up
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Developing for Dynamics GP
ERP in the Cloud Partner Day in Sydney, Australia on 2nd October
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7 days ago
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I am please to announce that the Australian Dynamics team will be holding an "ERP in the Cloud Partner Day" for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics GP partners in the region to attend. When: Wednesday October 2nd, 8:30am-5:30pm AEST Where...
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Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s devices & services business, license Nokia’s patents and mapping services
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7 days ago
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If you have not heard yet, Microsoft has announced plans to acquire Nokia's devices and services business including the Lumia Windows Phone range. Check out the following official resources for more information: Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s...
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2
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12 days ago
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David Musgrave
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Fantastic News. Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 has been released ahead of schedule. We were expecting it some time in September and it has now been released at the end of August. Not only does this release fix a number of problem...
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RoboCup Junior WA 2013 Rescue Premier & Senior Dance State Champions
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16 days ago
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David Musgrave
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After both my sons won the 2012 Western Australian State RoboCup Junior competition in their divisions and then went on to compete at the RoboCup Junior Australia 2012 National Championships , I decided that I wanted to get more involved in helping other...
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ERP in the Cloud Partner Day in Sydney, Australia on 2nd October
Posted
7 days ago
by
David Musgrave
4
Comments
I am please to announce that the Australian Dynamics team will be holding an "ERP in the Cloud Partner Day" for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics GP partners in the region to attend. When: Wednesday October 2nd, 8:30am-5:30pm AEST Where...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s devices & services business, license Nokia’s patents and mapping services
Posted
7 days ago
by
David Musgrave
0
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If you have not heard yet, Microsoft has announced plans to acquire Nokia's devices and services business including the Lumia Windows Phone range. Check out the following official resources for more information: Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Another great new Windows Phone Advert
Posted
8 days ago
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David Musgrave
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Following on from the success of the Nokia Lumia 920 and "The Wedding" advert , Nokia have released a new advert for the Lumia 1020 and its amazing 41 megapixel camera. Have a read about in on the Windows Phone Blog : If you thought The Wedding...
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Fast Links to Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs
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9 days ago
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David Musgrave
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Since September 2011 you have been able to access this blog using a shortened URL on the aka.ms domain. But did you know that there are shortened links for the two other Microsoft Dynamics GP blogs maintained by Microsoft teams. Below are the three...
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2
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12 days ago
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David Musgrave
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Fantastic News. Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 has been released ahead of schedule. We were expecting it some time in September and it has now been released at the end of August. Not only does this release fix a number of problem...
Developing for Dynamics GP
GPUG Magazine - Fall 2013 edition is out
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13 days ago
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David Musgrave
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My last community announcement for the week. The GPUG Magazine - Fall 2013 edition is now available. For more information and the link to download, check out Katie Froeber's post on the Dynamics Community GPUG Events & News blog: ...
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GPUG Summit 2013
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14 days ago
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David Musgrave
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While we are talking about conferences (see Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2013 ), we should also mention that the GPUG Summit 2013 will be happing in Tampa, Florida, USA on the 22 nd to 25 th October 2013. Go to the GP Summit 2013 website...
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2013
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15 days ago
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David Musgrave
1
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If you have been hiding under a rock, you might not know that the Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2013 hosted by GP Partner Connections will happening in Fargo, North Dakota, USA on the 18 th to 20 th September 2013. So, if you did not know already...
Developing for Dynamics GP
RoboCup Junior WA 2013 Rescue Premier & Senior Dance State Champions
Posted
16 days ago
by
David Musgrave
3
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After both my sons won the 2012 Western Australian State RoboCup Junior competition in their divisions and then went on to compete at the RoboCup Junior Australia 2012 National Championships , I decided that I wanted to get more involved in helping other...
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Microsoft by the Numbers
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27 days ago
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David Musgrave
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Did you know that 1 in 7 people on the planet use Office? Or that hungry employees eat over half of a million pizza slices on Microsoft’s campus annually? Explore more cool stats from across the company in “ Microsoft by the Numbers .”...
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Adobe X performance issues with Citrix Environment
Posted
1 month ago
by
David Musgrave
1
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I had a recent case where a customer was having performance problems with printing to PDF files. If you print a report to the screen and then Send to Mail as PDF it was fast, but if you try to directly email the report as a PDF it would be really slow...
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Troubleshooting the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client Series
Posted
1 month ago
by
David Musgrave
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My friend, Mariano Gomez aka The Dynamics GP Blogster , has been busy writing a fantastic series of articles about troubleshooting the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client. Mariano was one of the early adopters of the technology and worked closely...
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IntelliSense for Dexterity - DexSense 2.2 released
Posted
1 month ago
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David Musgrave
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Tim Gordon from AlphaSOFT has released a new build of his great DexSense tool. Here is a list of some of the changes made: Improved the stability of the COM interop (was causing crashes on some systems, specifically Windows 8) Improved stability...
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Using Menus for Visual Studio Tools to launch ad hoc and custom applications
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1 month ago
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David Musgrave
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Back in July 2008, I was attending a Developer Toolkit training course run by my friend, Steve Gray. It was during this course that the idea for Menus for Visual Studio Tools was created. Being the geek I am, I had a prototype of the concept running the...
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Updated: spSearchOnAllDB: SQL Stored Procedure to Search an Entire Database
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1 month ago
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David Musgrave
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From the Useful SQL Scripts Series . Back in December 2008, I posted an article providing the spSearchOnAllDB stored procedure, originally created by Oufimtsev Gleb. Based on feedback in the comments of that article, I have made two lots of updates...
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Handling Australian GST Requirements for Payables Transactions in eConnect
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1 month ago
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David Musgrave
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As part of the handling of Australian Good and Services Tax (GST), Microsoft Dynamics GP needs to be able to track if a Tax Invoice has been received for payables transactions. This is important as a company must have a Tax Invoice for a purchase before...
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Developing with the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Named System Database
Posted
1 month ago
by
David Musgrave
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 introduced another long sought after feature.... The Named System Database. Instead of the System database being hardcoded to DYNAMICS, a different name can be selected when installing GP. So what does that mean? Well...
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Quick Tip: Debugging Visual Studio Tools
Posted
1 month ago
by
Lee R. Butenhoff
2
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Let's jump right in. We debug our Visual Studio applications over and over; and attaching to the test environment is among the most important, and time-consuming skills we use. (How many times have I launched GP2010 when I was thinking of GP2013?) ...
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, Printer Selection, Named Printers, Page Orientation and the System Print Dialog
Posted
1 month ago
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David Musgrave
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 added a long awaited feature, the ability to change the printer selection for a report after it has printed to the screen output. However, this change has introduced some side effects. Microsoft is aware of the side effects...
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 1 updates ABN Lookup Feature
Posted
1 month ago
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David Musgrave
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Back in June 2011, we reported that an Australian Business Register update breaks ABN Lookup Feature . Within a couple of weeks, the Australian Business Register (ABR) team did add a URL direction which allowed the ABN (Australian Business Number) Lookup...
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Five Years later: Welcome to the Developing for Dynamics GP blog
Posted
2 months ago
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David Musgrave
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Five years ago today, I decided that I could help the community better by writing about my experiences as a developer, consultant, administrator and support engineer with Microsoft Dynamics GP in a single location. Previously, I would respond to questions...
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Why does SmartList not return all of the expected data for large queries?
Posted
2 months ago
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David Musgrave
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Here is another support issue that you might come across. I just closed a case where a SmartList was returning less than the expected number of records. If a SQL Statement was executed via the SQL Server Management Studio, it returned more records...
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Why does my computer get stuck at Please Wait and fail to boot up?
Posted
2 months ago
by
David Musgrave
4
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This issue took me a little while to discover the cause, but now that I understand what was happening I thought I would let you know in case you come across a similar issue. Most of the time I put my work laptop into sleep mode overnight and so I don...
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Microsoft Dynamics GP EE Summit 2013
Posted
2 months ago
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David Musgrave
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You might be wondering why the blog has no posts last week. Well, that was primarily because I was busy travelling and attending meetings. Last week I had the pleasure of travelling from Perth, Australia to Fargo, North Dakota, USA for the Microsoft...
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Surface Pro arrives in Australia today
Posted
3 months ago
by
David Musgrave
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The wait in Australia is over. I mentioned that Surface Pro was due in Australia on 30th May , and today I received an email notice reminding me that it is now available. If you want to order one, go to the Microsoft Online Store , or to your local...
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