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From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Management Reporter challenges; Backup mystery; Free auto-number add-on

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics GP blogs:

  • Management Reporter is Unable to Connect to the Company;
  • Can't Delete Company in Management Reporter
  • When Good Backups Just Aren't Enough;
  • Cards Auto Numbering for Vendors, Customers and Items - Free Add-on;

Management Reporter is Unable to Connect to the Company

On his Azurecurve blog, Ian Grieve says one of his clients was recently having problems with the Microsoft Dynamics GP Datamart in Management Reporter 2012, so he removed the DDM and installed the Legacy GP Connector. He tested it on the server and everything worked fine, so he asked the user to try.

Unfortunately, it didn't just work and the user got this error: "Management Reporter - Unable to connect to the ‘{company].' The connection to the Microsoft Dynamics GP database failed. Contact your system administrator."

After some investigation, Grieve discovered the problem. You can find out what it was here.

Can't Delete Company in Management Reporter

Grieve seems to be having a fun week with Management Reporter. Grieve says recently his company took on a new client that already had Microsoft Dynamics GP and had been migrated to Management Reporter before it went to his company for support.

So Grieve did a little exercise of checking configuration and "tidied up" where it was necessary. During this exercise, he found two companies in Management Reporter that weren't needed -  the FW and FWC companies.

"When I selected the first ...

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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.

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