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Monday. Convergence. Atlanta.
After a successful slow start yesterday with working in the labs, managing a Sure Step study hall, and a fun evening at the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola, we are off and running at...
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Back from Convergence 2012
So, next year, back to New Orleans for Convergence 2013. Admittedly, I did like New Orleans a lot, although I have to say that San Diego has been my favorite. Overall it was a good Convergence,...
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The value of logging and diagnostics in Dynamics GP integrations
By Steve Endow I developed a custom web service for a customer that allows one of their internal web sites to create customers in GP and store customer credit card data in a third party credit card...
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How do you backup your Hyper-V virtual machines?
By Steve EndowSo, how do you backup your Hyper-V virtual machines? You DO back them up, don't you?Today I spent a rare day working on my "data center infrastructure".Specifically, I was working on my...
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Who deleted my Dynamics GP database table and stored procedure.?
By Steve EndowAn unusual situation has come up at a client. While reviewing some integration logs, I saw that a custom database table had been deleted from the production Dynamics GP company database....
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eConnect will import data with leading spaces: Why should you care?
By Steve Endow One fine day, you joyfully work on a simple Dynamics GP customer query. You just want to look up the record for a customer.SELECT*FROMRM00101WHERECUSTNMBR='WEB001'Couldn't get much...
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Dynamics GP GPConnNet ReturnCode 131074: One possible cause
By Steve EndowLast week a customer contacted me saying that an eConnect integration suddenly stopped working.They have been using the integration for a few years without issue, but without apparent...
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Two quick tips on Dynamics GP SQL Server backups
By Steve Endow I recently learned two interesting things about SQL Server backups from the esteemed Victoria Yudin.FIRST, I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know that SQL Server 2008 added a native...
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Reopening Closed Years!
Okay, so my new year’s resolution has completely gone astray as I have been absent from this blog for way way way too long. So here I am, coming out of the post-year end haze, and hope to get back in...
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Updating Payroll Transactions for FUTA and SUTA
I had previously posted some scripts to do a compare, to identify transactions where the FUTA and SUTA fields are set differently than the set up records for the pay codes involved. Remember, FUTA...
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Get GPConnNet to connect to SQL Server instance with a TCP port number using...
By Steve Endow I have a very large Dynamics GP customer who has a very large and complex IT environment with a lot of security. In their Test Dynamics GP environment, they have the unusual situation...
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Source Code Control: Converting from VisualSVN to Git on BitBucket
By Steve EndowI do a lot of development with Visual Studio, creating eConnect integrations and VS Tools integrations for Microsoft Dynamics GP.Back in 2012 when I decided to finally setup a source code...
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BadImageFormatException Error after upgrading eConnect import to GP 2015:...
By Steve EndowI recently upgraded a .NET eConnect Dynamics GP integration from GP 2013 to GP 2015.In Dynamics GP 2015, the eConnect libraries were updated to use .NET 4.5.1, so when you upgrade any...
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One sign of a really bad API
By Steve EndowThe last several months, I've been working with a third party product that integrates with Dynamics GP.While the product sometimes technically works, it is absolutely riddled with bugs....
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Clearing Out Old Uninterfaced Fixed Assets GL Activity
It's not unusual for Fixed Assets to get implemented after the initial project for Dynamics GP. But lately, I have had a few different clients who went live with Fixed Assets but never actually went...
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Bug in Dynamics GP 2013 eConnect Employee Deduction import:...
By Steve EndowSeveral years ago I developed a Payroll integration for a customer that transitioned from Dynamics GP HR to Kronos HR. The client wanted to use Kronos for HR, but keep GP for Payroll....
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Dynamics GP Integration Manager script to generate a fixed length number
By Steve EndowThere are some situations when importing data into GP where you want to have a consistent or fixed length to a number.Say you are importing Employees, and your source data file has...
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Why specify a Batch Number when importing bank transactions using eConnect?
By Steve EndowA few weeks ago I delivered an automated eConnect integration to a client that imports vendors, AP vouchers, GL journal entries, and bank transactions. This integration replaced several...
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Dynamics GP 2015 eConnect error: The source was not found, but some or all...
By Steve EndowAfter upgrading an eConnect integration to Dynamics GP 2015, I received the following strange error message:Exception type:Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.eConnect.eConnectExceptionException...
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How to assign a new Dynamics GP Item Class to existing inventory items and...
By Steve EndowI was asked if there was a way to create a new Inventory Item Class, apply that new class to a lot of existing inventory items, and roll down the new item class settings to those...
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