Today, we are announcing the release of GP Power Tools Build 30.3. Over the last couple of months, a few issues have been discovered, which have now been fixed. We have also enhanced the functionality of a number of features in the product. We have also been encouraging our customers to get updated onto the latest builds of our products for their versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Security Vulnerability discovered and ..read more

Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 14 of Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 08-Apr-2024. This build adds the ability to transfer Sales Order Processing batches. IMPORTANT NOTICE: After the release of build 13 and with the aim of removing all builds with the security vulnerability, support for build 11 was discontinued at the end of 2023. Support for build 10 and earlier has already been discontinued. The final released build for each version of Microsoft Dynamics GP will not be discontinued. Sites running discontinued build ..read more

I am excited to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training (during the week before the conference), there will also be GP Power Tools training offered at Academy at Summit in the days before Community Summit in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The training will be presented as a single full day course on Sunday 13th October 2024, running from 8:00am to 5:00pm with lunch included. We always have lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release the latest builds of GP Power Tools. GP Power Tools is the ultimate add on for Microsoft Dynamics GP to improve the experience of Admini ..read more

I will once again be running the 5-day Dexterity Fundamentals for Dynamics GP bootcamp training class in the week before the Community Summit conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA in October. Please register for the training now and plan to be in San Antonio for the week before the conference. Dexterity is the development environment that Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on and the best tool to use for any customization to the user interface of the product. Knowledge of Dexterity is vital for anyone customizing Dynamics GP even when using other development tools such as GP Power Tools – Develope ..read more

Here is a quick project that can make using Microsoft Dynamics GP much easier for your users. We are going to use GP Power Tools along with the free menu module of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit to add windows to the application level navigation menus. For our example we are going to use the Professional Services Tools Library and add a menu to the main window of the product as well as the Receivables Transaction Unapply window. Below are the instructions to create this project. You can use the techniques described here to add any window to the application level navigation menus. Preparatio ..read more

Microsoft have done many great things over the years but have also made some bad (maybe awful) decisions in my opinion. This includes discontinuing Zune and Windows Phone and Xbox Kinect as well as the addition of Clippy to Office or the removal of the Start Menu in Windows 8. However, the latest change that I am less than impressed by is the changing of the default Office font (technically Typeface) from Calibri to Aptos. This article explains how to restore Calibri as the default in Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft have spent a lot of time working on designing and selecting a new typeface and ha ..read more

Today we are pleased to announce the release of GP Power Tools Build 30.2. It has been about six months since GP Power Tools Build 30.1 was released and we have been working on consolidating all the features and functionality of that build as well as fixing some minor bugs. We have also been encouraging our customers to get updated onto the latest builds of our products for their versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Secu ..read more

It is with great pleasure that I can announce I was selected to join the Dynamics 365 Super User program for their Season 1 kickoff! I look forward to contributing further with the Dynamics 365 Community and help guide the community with continued success. Here is a video from Charles Lamanna​, Microsoft CVP for Business Applications & Platforms which explains the program: 2024 Super User Thank You from Charles Lamanna (direct link) For more information, see the announcement and learn more about Super Users: Announcing Super Users: Season 1 – 2024 Thank you to #Dynamics365 #SuperUsers t ..read more

A couple of weeks ago, we had an unusual support case: upgrading two of our products, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit and GP Power Tools, was failing with a SQL Server error I had never seen before. The errors only occurred on the customer’s live system, but the install worked fine on their development system. Eventually the cause for the issue was identified. Today, my good friend Beat Bucher, had the same error and I was able to tell him the cause straight away. Read on for a full explanation. The products were trying to update their tables from the old structures to the new stru ..read more

Last week, AccountingWare, the people behind the ActivReporter reporting tool for GP, released the updated 2024 version of their report on the future of Dynamics GP. You might remember that I asked for my readers to complete the two surveys on the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP, well this is the resulting report from the second survey. This report (based on 149 respondents) again confirms anecdotal evidence that most of the Microsoft Dynamics GP customer base is happy staying with Dynamics GP for the foreseeable future, and also that most of the few who are moving off GP are moving away from ..read more