From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Versioning mystery; Fixed assets year end report; New company setup; Receivables batch approval tip

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

• Versioning your Dynamics GP Customizations and Software;
• GP 2015 - Fixed Assets Year End Closing Report;
• GP 2015 - Understanding Receivable Batch Approval;
• How to Set Up a New Company in Dynamics GP;
• Don't Forget About Your Reminders!

Versioning your Dynamics GP Customizations and Software

Over at the Dynamics GP Land blog, Steve Endow says that earlier this year he was working with a third-party product for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Because it was all .NET, there were a few DLL (dynamics link library) files in the Dynamics GP AddIns folder, and a few additional DLLs that were used by an external application independent of Dynamics GP.

Endow says that during testing, he identified a few bugs. 

"While communicating with the ISV, we were asked which version we had installed.  I checked the DLLs and found the following version number: 10.0.0.0

"Hmm, that's a little unusual, but okay, I told them we were using version 10. Their reply was not THAT version number, but the date time stamp on the DLL files that we had installed. Say what?"

Apparently, the vendor asked Endow's company to take some strange steps to identify the DLL. Endow says he was surprised, adding that to this day, the vendor still refuses to use version numbers on its software.

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