A Virginia client of mine recently called; their organization had been down all week due to a server crash. The IT department took an entire week to get the server back up and running and now it was my turn to get Dynamics GP back up and running. ...[Read More]

Many clients often ask me, "Is there a way to remove inactive accounts from the account lookup screens within Dynamics GP?" There is good news! The developers of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 have made this possible (at least for the GL ent ...[Read More]

I recommend once you have reconfigured, or configured, a users' Dynamics GP 10 security the best thing to do is to turn on Activity Tracking.   Activity Tracking can provide basic logging of  Dynamics GP security events. If a user logged in suc ...[Read More]

Have you heard the buzz? Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 has arrived!  Two new features that I find particularly useful are the pre-defined templates in Microsoft Word, and enhanced email capabilities.   Pre-Defined Templates in Microsoft Word     ...[Read More]

Security in Microsoft Dynamics GP is completely different beginning with Dynamics GP10. It's much stronger, but requires understanding to take advantage of the new capabilities. Prior to Microsoft Dynamics GP10, user security took an "optim ...[Read More]

One of the key benefits of having an active Microsoft Support Service Plan is access to CustomerSource.           Microsoft Dynamics CustomerSource is an award winning, personalized web site resource to help you optimize your use of Dynamics SL ...[Read More]

Is your Dynamics GP vendor list full of old vendors you would like to delete, but can't because they have a history? Here's a simple solution.   Temporary Vendors can be deleted much easier than deleting Active Vendors. You will NOT lose transa ...[Read More]

In last month's blog I showed you how to activate business alerts in Microsoft Dynamics GP10 (see "Monitor Business Activity with Alert Feature in Dynamics GP"). The next step is to create your own customized business alert by defining an ...[Read More]

Shortcuts are a nice convenience and easy to add, yet many users don't take advantage of the shortcut function in GP 10.0. Let's walk through the steps of adding a shortcut to your desktop.      There are three areas on your Dynamics GP home screen ...[Read More]

 Ever try to attach a PDF, Word or Excel file to a document or master record in Dynamics GP 10 and the paper clip is missing? I'll show you how to fix that problem.   In order to have the paper clip appear we need to look at the following: ...[Read More]