#GPPT GP Power Tools Build 30.3 hotfix released

Today, we are announcing the release of GP Power Tools Build 30.3. Over the last couple of months, a few issues have been discovered, which have now been fixed. We have also enhanced the functionality of a number of features in the product.

We have also been encouraging our customers to get updated onto the latest builds of our products for their versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Security Vulnerability discovered and fixed in August 2022.

#BPST Batch Posting Service Toolkit build 14.1 released

Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 14 of Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 08-Apr-2024.

This build adds the ability to transfer Sales Order Processing batches.

#GPPT GP Power Tools Training at Community Summit 2024 in San Antonio, TX, USA

I am excited to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training (during the week before the conference), there will also be GP Power Tools training offered at Academy at Summit in the days before Community Summit in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

The training will be presented as a single full day course on Sunday 13^th October 2024, running from 8:00am to 5:00pm with lunch included.

We always have lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release the latest builds of GP Power Tools.

#Dexterity Announcing Dexterity Training before Community Summit 2024 in San Antonio, TX, USA

I will once again be running the 5-day Dexterity Fundamentals for Dynamics GP bootcamp training class in the week before the Community Summit conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA in October. Please register for the training now and plan to be in San Antonio for the week before the conference.

Dexterity is the development environment that Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on and the best tool to use for any customization to the user interface of the product. Knowledge of Dexterity is vital for anyone customizing Dynamics GP even when using other development tools such as GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module, Visual Studio Tools (C# or VB .Net) or “End of Life” VBA (Visual Basic for Application).

#GPPT #VSIT Adding Windows to Microsoft Dynamics GP Menus with GP Power Tools

Here is a quick project that can make using Microsoft Dynamics GP much easier for your users. We are going to use GP Power Tools along with the free menu module of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit to add windows to the application level navigation menus.

For our example we are going to use the Professional Services Tools Library and add a menu to the main window of the product as well as the Receivables Transaction Unapply window.

[Edit] We are also going to add the Item Reconciler window as that requires some different techniques.

#MSOffice Changing the Aptos font back to Calibri in Microsoft Outlook (Updated)

Microsoft have done many great things over the years but have also made some bad (maybe awful) decisions in my opinion. This includes discontinuing Zune and Windows Phone and Xbox Kinect as well as the addition of Clippy to Office or the removal of the Start Menu in Windows 8.

However, the latest change that I am less than impressed by is the changing of the default Office font (technically Typeface) from Calibri to Aptos. This article explains how to restore Calibri as the default in Microsoft Outlook.

#GPPT GP Power Tools Build 30.2 hotfix released

Today we are pleased to announce the release of GP Power Tools Build 30.2. It has been about six months since GP Power Tools Build 30.1 was released and we have been working on consolidating all the features and functionality of that build as well as fixing some minor bugs.

We have also been encouraging our customers to get updated onto the latest builds of our products for their versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Security Vulnerability discovered in August 2022.

#Dynamics365 #SuperUsers Dynamics 365 Community Super User

It is with great pleasure that I can announce I was selected to join the Dynamics 365 Super User program for their Season 1 kickoff!

I look forward to contributing further with the Dynamics 365 Community and help guide the community with continued success.

Installation Failing with ANSI_WARNINGS and CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL Errors

A couple of weeks ago, we had an unusual support case: upgrading two of our products, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit and GP Power Tools, was failing with a SQL Server error I had never seen before.

The errors only occurred on the customer’s live system, but the install worked fine on their development system. Eventually the cause for the issue was identified.

Today, my good friend Beat Bucher, had the same error and I was able to tell him the cause straight away. Read on for a full explanation.

#MSDynGP 2024 Report on the Future of Dynamics GP

Last week, AccountingWare, the people behind the ActivReporter reporting tool for GP, released the updated 2024 version of their report on the future of Dynamics GP. You might remember that I asked for my readers to complete the two surveys on the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP, well this is the resulting report from the second survey.

This report (based on 149 respondents) again confirms anecdotal evidence that most of the Microsoft Dynamics GP customer base is happy staying with Dynamics GP for the foreseeable future, and also that most of the few who are moving off GP are moving away from Microsoft’s ERP solutions.

#GPPT You do not have permission to run FN_TRACE_GETINFO

GP Power Tools has the ability to capture SQL Profile Traces as one of the five different types of logs it can generate from Microsoft Dynamics GP.

To achieve this, GP Power Tools needs to change some permissions on the SQL Server so that it can both generate the Trace programmatically and also copy the resulting files to the shared Logging Folder.

Registration Expired or Failed Dialog shown when launching Microsoft Dynamics GP

We are currently seeing an increase in customer sites reporting the Registration Expired or Failed dialog when launching Microsoft Dynamics GP.

This dialog is to notify users that a Winthrop Development Consultants product is no longer registered and action needs to be taken by the system administrator to fix the subscription and restore the product’s functionality.

#VSIT Visual Studio Integration Toolkit build 19.1 released

Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 19 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 19-Jan-2024.

This build includes enhancements to the new Custom Forms module along with improvements to the installer systems. The User Guide Manual has now grown to 95 pages, plus their code examples and sample project also provided.

#MSDynGP Understanding the Modern Lifecycle for Dynamics GP

There have been a number of articles on the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP with the change to the Modern Lifecycle in 2021 and the announcement about ceasing new customer site sales in April 2023.

[Edit] GPUG All-Star, SQL Guru and good friend Kerry Hataley has consolidated all the information from Microsoft into a single article and also produced a Dynamics GP Consolidated Timeline based on the official Microsoft Roadmap, product lifecycle information and the April 2023 announcement.

#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 3

This is a further update to the previous version of the change tracking project for Item Cards:

• #GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 2

Based on the version 2 project, this update adds optional emailing of the changes made to a specified address.

#GPPT Tracking changes to Customer and Vendor Cards Version 4

This is another update to the previous versions of the change tracking projects for Customer and Vendor cards:

• #GPPT Tracking changes to Customer and Vendor Cards Version 3

Based on the version 3 projects, this update adds optional emailing of the changes made to a specified address.

#MSDynGP Dynamics GP’s Future So Bright Survey Results

At Community Summit 2023 in Charlotte, NC, USA we had a session on the future of Dynamics GP immediately after the GP General Session. The Dynamics GP Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades session interviewed customers, partners and ISVs to discuss their commitment to the Microsoft Dynamics GP platform.

During the session there was a quick live poll, as well as the link for a more detailed survey was shared.

#GPPT Remotely requesting immediate Automatic Logout

GP Power Tools has very powerful and flexible Automatic Logout functionality to gracefully log idle users out of Microsoft Dynamics GP. However, this feature requires the user to be idle for a specified period before it will attempt to logout.

As an Administrator there are times where you would like users to exit Microsoft Dynamics GP immediately and don’t want to wait for Automatic Logout to activate. The sample project in this article makes this possible.

#GPPT GP Power Tools has detected mismatched product dictionaries

When GP Power Tools Build 28 was released, it added a new Product Version Validation feature. One function of Product Version Validation is to warn when it detects Dexterity Product Dictionary version mismatches.

A dialog will be displayed after logging into Microsoft Dynamics GP explaining which product dictionary versions are mismatched for the current workstation. Once dismissed the application will continue as normal. However, mismatched product dictionaries are a security and data damage risk, and the issue should be resolved as soon as possible.

Uninstalling Winthrop Products and Removing previous versions from Programs and Features

This article covers how to uninstall Winthrop Products and also how to remove previous versions showing in Programs and Features in the Control Panel.

Winthrop Products use a two-step uninstall process and will not uninstall from the Programs and Features applet in the Control Panel until they have first been uninstalled from the Microsoft Dynamics GP application. This allows the products to clean up all the settings, tables and other SQL objects from the SQL Server as well as removing themselves from the application installation before the files are removed by uninstalling from the control panel.