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Microsoft updates Management Reporter with web viewer enhancements, SQL Server 2014 support

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Microsoft has released Management Reporter 2012 CU9, which includes upgrades to the Management Reporter Web Viewer around opening and refreshing reports, SQL Server 2014 compatibility, as well as additional troubleshooting information in the Configuration Console related to data issues in the ERP.

Management Reporter is used for financial reporting using general ledger data from Microsoft Dynamics ERP apps, as Noah Moseley of the MSX Group, explained in a recent webinar.

At the time Moseley said it appeared Microsoft was going to devote most of its development improving the Web Viewer, which it has done with Cumulative Update 9.

The new Management Reporter CU9 features include:

  • Enabling users to view a list of previous month's reports and open them in the Web Viewer
  • Ability to refresh a report in the Web Viewer
  • Capability to publish a report from the Web Viewer
  • Headers and footers shown by default in the Web Viewer
  • Enhanced data detection in the Configuration Console
  • Support for dynamically displaying currency symbol, currency code and currency description
  • Support for SQL Server 2014
  • Additional fixes for product defects

One of the new updates lets you refresh a report in the Management Reporter Web viewer.

Users can get an updated view of the data in a report without having to go back in Report Designer to regenerate the report, according to Jill Carter, senior project manager at Microsoft. One of the main times this is needed ...

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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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