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From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Enhancing GP 2013; Service Pack Errors; New SBT Hotfix; Dashboard Book Review

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack Error: From the Dynamics Confessions Blogspot, Leslie Vail offers up this problem - and, of course, a solution.

Here's the scenario, according to Vail:

"You have just installed a service pack. When you launch GP 2013, you are told you need to run Utilities. You launch Utilities, but oddly, it doesn't find an existing instance of GP 2013.

So, you just hit next and it moves along. Suddenly, the error pop's up telling you: ‘A system database name was not supplied. Run a repair of the Microsoft Dynamics GP installation.'"

She says, the fact that it was trying to create a new system database makes a little more sense now. Next, you dutifully launch control panel and begin to run the repair routine. Right at the beginning of the repair process you get another error: ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' "Fabulous, you've seen this error before and it's never pretty," she says. "We used to see it using Integration Manager and it was sometimes hard to fix. You'll be delighted to know that this is a known error with an easy fix."

You can read about the fix here.

9 Tips for Enhancing Your Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Experience: At the BCG Systems Inc. blog, Mark Goodson offers nine ways Dynamics GP 2013 is improving the user experience.

Here are a couple ways courtesy of Goodson:

Reconcile checkbook to GL with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013.

"In the past, a common challenge faced by many Microsoft Dynamics GP users was reconciling differences ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.