On May 09, 2013, Microsoft published the release of Business Portal 6.0. This is nearly five months since the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. Besides a blog article and an update to the product release page, it hardly went noticed.The release of Business Portal 6.0 is compatible with Dynamics GP 2013. Dynamics GP installations running Business Portal now have an upgrade solution to Dynamics GP 2013 and Business Portal 6.0. Prior releases of Business Portal are not compatible with Dynamics GP 2013.Besides being able to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 with a compatible release of Business Portal, what enhancements are included?There are only two according to Microsoft’s published “What’s New” document.Use the Business Portal SharePoint Feature Utility to install, activate, upgrade, deactivate and uninstall SharePoint features after Business Portal is installed.Business Portal Release 6.0 must use a single tenant environment.With neither enhancement having an impact to the end user experience or day to day functionality, the reason to upgrade for the majority of installations is for compatibility reasons only. With Dynamics GP 2013 packed full of new features and enhancements, the recommendation is to upgrade to Dynamics GP 2013 and Business Portal 6.0.Contact your Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner to plan your Dynamics GP and Business Portal upgrade…
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With the Scribe Adapter for Dynamics CRM, there is a feature that allows you to customize the time zone that should be used when migrating and integrating date/time fields. This feature is found within the Owner/User tab of the Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM settings window, in the section labeled as Time zone to use for all date/time values. The possible values for this setting are Time Zone of Run As User, Time Zone of Login User, and UTC/GMT. If this value is not set correctly, it can result in date/time fields having incorrect values. This is also just as applicable to date-only…
A customer brought an issue to our attention with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and exporting SmartLists to Excel. Using the Employee default to create a new Smartlist, if you add a column called “Vacation Accrual Amount”, in SmartList after that column is added, the values show up in SmartList just fine. However, when you export the list to Excel the values for this column are zero in Excel. If you export this to Word, the values are there.Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 is working just fine. So this is an issue with GP 2013 and does happen with both Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office…
After upgrading to GP2013, do some of the field values you export to Excel display differently? We are seeing some issues when exporting the same reports used in prior version of Microsoft Dynamics GP when exporting SmartLists to Excel. For example, under the Sales Line Items folder, the SmartList displays great within Microsoft Dynamics GP, the QTY field is correct showing no decimal places. But once that SmartList is exported to Excel, 5 decimal places are appearing for this field as well as other QTY type fields such as QTY Allocated, QTY Canceled etc. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 and…
With Rollup 5 (RU5) for Management Reporter 2012 released, now is a great time to check if your Management Reporter installation is current? Is your business taking advantage of the enhancements Microsoft has released within the Rollups?One might first ask “How can I check the version?” To determine the version of Microsoft Management Reporter, start Microsoft Management Reporter. On the Help menu, click About Management Reporter.To assist in mapping the version and Rollups released, the following table is provided.Management Reporter 2012 Rollup 5 (RU5)2.1.1037.12Rollup 4 Hot…