#MySummitNA Last Call for Community Summit 2023 Session Ideas

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe Community Summit 2023 conference will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA on 15th to 20th October 2023.

Winthrop Development Consultants will be there to run Dexterity Training in the week before the conference (9th to 13th October) and have a booth at the Expo as well as present some sessions.

And that is today’s topic. The call for speakers and session ideas is open until 31st March, so act now!

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#DynamicsCon Announces Winthrop Dexterity Consultants as Title Sponsor for Dynamics GP Track

David Meego - Click for blog homepageYes, you heard correctly. Winthrop Development Consultants is thrilled to be Title Sponsor of the March 2023 DynamicsCon Virtual Conference taking place on 15th and 16th of March 2023.

Make sure you register to attend this free online conference to learn more about Microsoft Dynamics GP and related products and technologies.

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#DynamicsCon Vote for Sessions for March 2023 Conference

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe next installment of DynamicsCon conference is scheduled for 15th to 16th March 2023. The session submission period is over and now we enter the session voting period until 27th January 2023.

During this voting period all registered attendees have 8 votes to apply to sessions as they wish, then the votes will be tallied and the final session lists published. See this explanation for more details of the process.

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#MSDynGP Microsoft, Stop Scaring Microsoft Dynamics GP Customers

David Meego - Click for blog homepageYou might have heard about the “announcement” made by Mike Morton (Vice President, Dynamics 365 Business Central and SMB, Microsoft) during the Microsoft Dynamics GP General Session and his subsequent retraction and clarification.

I decided to write this article to provide my thoughts on what happened and the bigger issues it raises.
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#MySummitNA Clarification of Microsoft Dynamics GP Lifecycle

David Meego - Click for blog homepageMike Morton (Vice President, Dynamics 365 Business Central at Microsoft) has clarified the Microsoft Dynamics GP Lifecycle after his comments at the GP General Session during the Community Summit 2022 conference.

Dynamics GP’s lifecycle is still 2028 and beyond and does include new features as well as tax, compliance and security updates. Since GP is a mature and stable product, don’t expect large new features or new modules. The large ISV community will continue to develop additional functionality to make GP a viable system for many years to come. Continue reading

Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.5 – October 2022 has released

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe latest version of Microsoft Dynamics GP was released today, and it contains a number of new features and bug fixes. Winthrop Development Consultants has already updated its products for this Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.5 – October 2022 release. They are now built against the final build and so are no longer beta builds.

Check out the previous article for more information:

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#SummitNA Winthrop Development Consultants at Community Summit Orlando 2022

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis Friday, I will start my flights to the USA to get to Community Summit 2022 in Orlando. I will be flying to Singapore first and then getting on the world’s longest flight: Singapore Airlines from Singapore to New York with a flight time of 18 hours and 25 minutes.

For the first week I will be staying at the Caribe Royale hotel while I am running a 5-day Dexterity Fundamentals Bootcamp training course. Then during the Community Summit 2022 Conference being held on October 10-13, 2022, I will be at the Gaylord Palms Resort, Kissimmee, Orlando, Florida, USA.

My friend, Tim Wappat from the UK, will be helping me out at the Winthrop Development Consultants booth in the Expo Hall. Please come see us at Booth 829. Read on for more information on the two training classes and six sessions I am presenting.

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#SummitNA Don’t miss out on the Training Opportunities at Community Summit 2022

David Meego - Click for blog homepageDavid Musgrave MVP is coming to Community Summit 2022 in Orlando and will be running two training courses for GP users, administrators, consultants and developers.

The first is a 5 day Dexterity bootcamp, before the conference, which will teach you how to get started with Dexterity, the development tool used to create Microsoft Dynamics GP.

The second is a single day class on GP Power Tools, covering all modules of the product.

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Winthrop Development Consultants Newsletter – August 2022

David Meego - Click for blog homepageIt has been a long time between Newsletters, but that does not mean nothing’s been happening. On the contrary, we have been really busy working hard to improve our software products with the aim of making your lives better.

This newsletter contains important information about price changes, and new releases of all our software (including a critical security update). Please forward this newsletter to anyone in your organization who would find this information useful. They can subscribe to future newsletters using the link below:

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#GPPT GP Power Tools Training at Community Summit 2022 in Orlando, FL, USA

David Meego - Click for blog homepageI am pleased to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training there will be GP Power Tools training offered by the GPUG Academy during the Academy days before Community Summit in Orlando, Florida, USA.

The training will be presented as a single full day course on Monday 10th October 2022, running from 8:00am to 5:00pm with lunch included.

We have lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release of Build 29 of GP Power Tools recently.

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#Dexterity Announcing Dexterity Training before Community Summit 2022 in Orlando, FL, USA

David Meego - Click for blog homepageI have had quite a few requests for Dexterity Training recently. So once I decided to go to Community Summit in Orlando, Florida, USA in October, I planned to run a 5 day Dexterity Fundamentals Bootcamp in the week beforehand. Please register your interest as soon as possible to ensure the course goes ahead.

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).

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#MySummitNA Great News: I am coming to Community Summit 2022 in Orlando

David Meego - Click for blog homepageAfter two years of uncertainty, I am finally heading back to the United States for the Community Summit conference in Orlando, Florida, USA in 10th to 13th of October 2022.

I will be running Dexterity and GP Power Tools training, presenting a number of conference sessions and manning an Expo booth.

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#DynamicsCon I will be hosting the Dynamics GP Watch Party Breakout Room on Wednesday and Thursday

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe latest installation DynamicsCon virtual conference started yesterday. The conference is running from 15th to 17th March 2022.

While I am not presenting a session this time around, I will be hosting the Dynamics GP Watch Party Breakout Room on Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 12pm ET on both days.

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#DynamicsCon Vote for Sessions for March 2022 Conference

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe next installment of DynamicsCon conference is scheduled for 15th to 17th March 2022. The session submission period is over and now we enter the session voting period until 19th January 2022.

During this voting period all registered attendees have 12 votes to apply to sessions as they wish, then the votes will be tallied and the final session lists published. See this explanation for more details of the process.

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K2A Days and GPUC 2021 Sponsor Video

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants are proud to be one of the sponsors of the K2A Days & GPUC event running in Fargo, North Dakota, USA (the home of Microsoft Dynamics GP) this week.

The event is hosted by Implementation Specialists and for the first two days focusses on Key2Act (formerly Wennsoft) customers with the final three days covering everything Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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K2A Days and GPUC 2021 starts this week

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants are proud to be one of the sponsors of the K2A Days & GPUC event running this week in Fargo, North Dakota (the home of Microsoft Dynamics GP) and virtually.

The event is hosted by Implementation Specialists and for the first two days focusses on Key2Act (formerly Wennsoft) customers with the final three days covering everything Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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#MySummitNA Materials from my Dynamics GP Development Tools Session

David Meego - Click for blog homepageCommunity Summit Conference 2021, hosted by Dynamic Communities (DC) ran in Houston, Texas, USA last week from 12th to 15th October 2021.

I presented a session on Microsoft Dynamics GP development tools. Because I am still unable to leave Australia due to the pandemic border closures, the session was a pre-recorded video presentation.

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