From the Microsoft Dynamics GP blogs: Picking email accounts; Bootstrap error; Boot up mystery; SQL Server collation

How Does Microsoft Dynamics GP Determine Which Account To Use When Sending Emails?: Mariano Gomez, aka The Dynamics GP Blogster, asks and answers this question on his blog. He explained:

"One of the advantages of working with Microsoft Outlook is its ability to configure multiple email accounts. Recently, a partner was working with a customer that supports multiple companies, so as such, each employee has an email account per company supported.

"The partner was under the impression that Microsoft Dynamics GP ‘looked' at the mailbox for the email account opened at the time of sending an email, but came to the conclusion it wasn't the case as the customer could not get emails sent through a second email account."

So how does Microsoft Dynamics GP determine which email account to use when sending emails via Microsoft Outlook? You can find out here.

Bootstrapper Error: On her blog, Leslie Vail, takes a moment to call out a solution shared by a Dynamics GP Forum member to a problem that was otherwise impossible to track down.

"The Problem: Here's the scenario, you're installing Dynamics GP 2013 on a x64 workstation and you are greeted with the following: ‘An error occurred while installing system components for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Bootstrapper.  Setup cannot continue until all system components have been successfully installed.'

When you click the details button, the following is displayed: ‘Setup has detected that the file

C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\VSDC0C4.tmp\Watson\dw20shared.msi' has either ...