The much anticipated CRM 4.0 to GP 10.0 Adapter has shed it’s BETA tag and is now officially available for general use on US Installs. PLEASE BE NOTED that this is generally available for only US Installs.

Check out the Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog article: RELEASED!! – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Adapter for …

VAIDY

My friend, Arunprasath VM, has shared an info on two DEX.INI settings which looks pretty new and interesting to me. I thought I would share with you all.

Below are the two switches:

duUseResourceDlls=FALSE
duExtractSqlResources=TRUE

From his explanation: These two settings will extract all SQL objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc.) when an installation / upgradation of GP is done. These details can be found in the “SQL” subfolder inside GP Application Folder.

I am yet to try these settings, but if anyone has got any extra information about these settings, kindly do share with us.

Thanks Arun for sharing this info.

VAIDY

UPDATE: The DEX.INI switches are updated with correct spelling and values.

Quite an informative article from David on OLE Attachments and the Record Notes.

If anyone want to learn about these concepts, do read this article.

VAIDY

Thanks to Mohammad Daoud to point out this article to us.

Geoffrey Wayong of Dynamics Solution Edge, has got a very informative post that explains the simplicity of Dynamics GP Installation with Service Packs.

A really good one to know about.

VAIDY

This portal, MSDynamicsWire, was having it’s worst phase from earlier last week till a couple of days back, I believe.

Looks like all the issues are solved now and this portal is up & running with good amount of feeds centralized for our reading. Just have a look at it and I am sure someone may definitely find something useful.

VAIDY

I read this article from MichaelJ on his blog: PO Purchases Account Required…

I must admit that I learned how to think diversely when we try to define a solution for a specific requirement. This is something which sounds very simple (rather silly) in advocating, but then sometimes it does become critical unknowingly.

Read thru’ the comments also on the above said article and you would get to know what I am talking about.

VAIDY

One major issue which was in the previous versions of Extender was:

When we delete an Extender Window or Detail Window, the respective records were not deleted and that leaves substantial orphan records in the EXT tables.

This issue is fixed in Extender 10.0 SP4. Now deleting a Window/Detail Window will not delete the underlying records also. Now that’s another critical point. The user should be intimated about this when he/she try to delete from Extender Maintenance form.

The issue which I thought could have been fixed in Extender 10.0 SP4 has not yet got fixed, much to my disappointment. Which is this:

When we change the Key fields for an Extender Window (add a field or remove an existing key field), the records pertaining to the old key combination will be left in the EXT tables.

This is a very big flaw in Extender feature. While this do not often happen, when it happens though, we will be left with pretty nasty orphan records which do not have any meaning at all.

I am not quite sure what the technical difficulty that Extender Developers may face when they try incorporating this much needed functionality. But to my knowledge, this looks pretty simple to get it work.

VAIDY

This one is nothing to do with Dynamics GP and it’s related technologies. But it is worth mentioning in this blog.

I read this most hilarious CodeSmith forum post and replies, wherein a user (calling himself/herself as “dushyant”) asks the CodeSmith Forum a serial key to crack the CodeSmith Professional 5.1.X product?!?!?!?!?!?! You heard it right. A user logged on to ask CodeSmith Product Forum itself to provide him a Serial Key to crack the CodeSmith Pro product.

Read it here: Need Serial Key.

VAIDY

I am a bit late in spreading my words about this wonderful initiative from fellow GP Blogger Janakiram MP.

He has started a portal called MSDynamicsWire.Com. Let’s read his introduction to this Portal:

“MSDynamicsWire.com is an informative portal dedicated to bring the latest news updates, Blog updates and several other informative resources in Microsoft Dynamics Community. The portal is based on RSS syndication aggregating various sources of information in Microsoft Dynamics community.

MSDynamiWire.com covers various product areas inside Microsoft Dynamics that include Dynamics GP, Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics RMS, Dynamics SL adding to the general news updates in Microsoft.“

An wonderful initiative I would say, to centralize all possible MS Dynamics information, Blog articles, etc.

The best that we can do for this initiative is to visit the Portal and send Janakiram MP our feedbacks.

VAIDY

This one is pretty important.

I was reading thru’ the GP Partner Forum and learned that PO Integrations using eConnect 10.0 SP4 fails with the message: Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.eConnect: Number = 8701 Stored Procedure taPoLine : Description = Document Date is required for PA

Original Link: eConnect failure in integration manager taPOLine.

MSFT responded back saying that this is a bug and will be rectified in the coming Hot Fix.

So those who are updating eConnect 10.0 to SP4, kindly be informed about this and make sure that you are keeping track of the Hot Fixes which MSFT is going to release in future.

VAIDY