Thursday, March 29, 2012

The 'Microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine

Download and install office 2007 data connectivity components

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=23734

Dynamics GP - Integration Manager "This item is not effective"

When trying to integrate an item, you get an error saying "This item is not effective".

This is because the item is not activated in the manufacturing module.
To activate the item go to

Cards>Manufacturing>Inventory>Engineering Data>Enter Item>Change Status to Active

Friday, March 23, 2012

VM Recipes - Windows 2003 R2 with SP2 32-bit, SQL2k5, Dynamics GP 10, Business Portal 4.0 SP2

Business Portal 4.0 CANNOT be installed on 64-bit.
Business Portal 4.0 works on 32-bit only.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Dynamics GP - Download Product

Go to partnersource.
Search for Product Release downloads

https://mbs2.microsoft.com/PartnerSourceApp/search.aspx?qu=product+release+downloads

Dynamics GP - Data Connection is blank after installing client on 64 bit machine

The machine is a 64 bit machine, and the Dynamics GP install does not create a 64-bit odbc connection.

You have to manually create a 32-bit odbc data connection for GP.

The 32-bit version of the Odbcad32.exe file is located in the %systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64 folder.
Run it and create your odbc.
Connect to your sql server using sa
untick all checkboxes on all windows as you go through the setup
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You should see your data connection when you run GP.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942976

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Dynamics GP - Pre-Requisites

Hardware and Software Requirements for Dynamics GP 2010 R2

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/documentation/systemrequirements/mdgp2010_technology_requirements.htm?printpage=false&sid=gkpquo3wv0x0z4rpb5gky00r&stext=System Requirements for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 r2

Dynamics GP Version Release Numbers

http://www.jivtesh.com/2008/01/great-plains-service-pack-versions.html