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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIn just under a month’s time my wife, Jennifer, and I will be flying from Perth via Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth to Nashville, Tennessee, USA for two weeks at the Community Summit 2026 conference.

During the first week (Monday 5th to Friday 9th October 2026), I will be running Dexterity Fundamentals training at the massive Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville. Then on Sunday 11th October, I will be running Academy training for GP Power Tools.

Once the conference starts you will find us at Expo Booth 321. Swing by and say G’day.

Read on for more information on the two training classes and the sessions I am presenting or assisting with.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageCalling all Microsoft Dynamics GP customers and partners.

It is vital that you have “in-house” knowledge and skills to support and maintain your customizations. With the upcoming changes to the Microsoft Dynamics GP support and consulting landscape, if you work with any customizations to your Microsoft Dynamics GP system, you need to know how to maintain them.

David Musgrave from Winthrop Development Consultants will be running two extremely valuable development training courses in the lead up to Community Summit 2026, and now is the time to register. There is no guarantee these classes will be offered again.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is repost of an article I wrote for the Knights of GP Blog. It explains the performance issues with using Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with Microsoft Dynamics GP and how to resolve them.

Here is the link to the original article on the Knights of GP site:

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAfter the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2025, we are now starting to see customer sites implementing the new version in their Microsoft Dynamics GP environments.

So far, I have been notified by two customers, that I work closely with, that they are having issues with Dynamics GP performance being slower on the SQL Server 2025 than their previous SQL Server version.

The following information on the issue and a solution has been provided by my colleague and friend, Arthur Achilleos, with a call out to Rob Farley MVP (who assisted Arthur’s troubleshooting).

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageHere is the Winthrop Development Consultants Newsletter for September 2026:

Community Summit 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee is fast approaching, so it is time for an update from Winthrop Development Consultants. Please share this newsletter with colleagues who may benefit. To receive ongoing news and updates, subscribe at:

What’s In This Newsletter

  • Microsoft Dynamics GP Development and GP Power Tools Training
  • Where to find us at Community Summit 2026
  • GP Power Tools 20th Anniversary Special Deal
  • Changes to Visual Studio Integration Toolkit subscriptions
  • Knights of GP Pre Conference Day
  • SQL Server 2025 Performance Issues
  • Update to the latest Product Builds
  • Subscribe to our Blog

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageStarting in August 2026, the planned changes to the subscription model for 2027 for Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) have been taking effect.

This article explains how those changes effect customers and partners of the product and hopefully answers any and all questions you might have. This article has been added to the VSIT Portal: https://winthropdc.com/VSIT

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageYesterday marked the 20th Anniversary of the creation of the MBS Support Debugging Tool. This was the original name of the Dexterity based Tool originally created by David Musgrave while he was an Escalation Engineer on the Asia Pacific customer services and support team for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

The tool was released publicly to partners two years later on 03-Sep-2008 as the Support Debugging Tool (dropping the MBS prefix). With the help of Pam Mishialek, David secured the rights to the software, and it was renamed and re-released on 07-Jul-2015 as GP Power Tools.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIt’s not too late to join the next Community Learners Event and learn about what’s new in GP Power Tools.

  • Tuesday, 7th Jul 2026 at 10:30 AM (US EDT)

Using real-life examples, this session will demonstrate how GP Power Tools can enhance your Microsoft Dynamics GP investment. Discover how it addresses your pain points and makes the “impossible” possible.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIf you’ve ever needed to change an existing Customer ID or Vendor ID you would have found that there are tools available, but if you need to change the Address ID values for addresses associated with Customers and Vendors, you would you would be in for an arduous, manual, time consuming task as there are no tools available.

This article provides free sample projects that add these tools to Microsoft Dynamics GP using GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module. The code can be downloaded and installed easily.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIn a number of my articles I have mentioned that you must enable “More Sensors” and use the Raw Red value to differentiate between white and silver. This is because the generic Reflected Light reading does not provide values that can safely tell the difference between white and silver.

This article explains how to enable “More Sensors” in the Spike software.

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