Thaidoweb 2008

Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions accounting package for the US market. You should probably expect some issues when you have software development company to be bought by big player – in this case Great Plains Software was bought by Microsoft (Bill Gates was a friend to Doug Burgum – owner and leader of Great Plains Software – Great Plains Dynamics/eEnterprise). We certainly have some influence level in Microsoft Business Solutions, but what happened is out of our [...]

Some introduction into Great Plains Software products, now Microsoft Business Solutions. Microsoft Great Plains becomes more and more popular, partly because of Microsoft muscles behind it. Now it is targeted to the whole spectrum of horizontal and vertical market clientele. Small companies use Small Business Manager (which is based on the same technology ? Great Plains Dexterity dictionary DYNAMICS.DIC and runtime DYNAMICS.EXE), Great Plains Standard on MSDE is for small to midsize clients, and then Great Plains serves the rest [...]

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, Axapta, Microsoft CRM require existing customer to be on active service contract: enhancement program. Minimal maintenance plan gives you free new software version (however upgrade itself, if it is done by your MBS partner is not free). If you are outside of USA/Canada: Mexico, South America, UK, South Africa, France, Australia, New Zealand ? you may have different promotion campaigns and might be not required to be on the service contract. In this [...]

How to delete the user? This is the first problem you encounter – when user shuts down the computer – Great Plains doesn’t have the command to log off the user and when user tries to login the next day – she gets error message that user is already logged on. The fix:

Microsoft SQL Server – open SQL Query Analyzer, switch to DYNAMICS database and run the following script: DELETE ACTIVITY WHERE USERID=’KATHY’.

Pervasive SQL/Ctree – if you have more than [...]