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2 Comments Posted on 27 September 201925 September 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Microsoft, Products, Training

#UserGroupSummit Winthrop Development Consultants at User Summit Orlando 2019

In one week from today, I will be getting on the first of three flights and heading back to the USA (after the recent GP Technical Conference in Fargo) for the User Group Summit North America 2019 Conference being held on October 15-18, 2019 at the Gaylord Palms Resort, Kissimmee, Orlando, Florida, USA.

My wife, Jennifer, will be coming with me to help with running our booth at the Expo Hall. Please come see us at Booth 222. Read on for more information on the two training classes and three sessions I am presenting.

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2 Comments Posted on 25 September 201923 September 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Dynamics, GP, GPUG, Microsoft

#GPUG Partners: Ignore User Groups at your own peril

After attending the User Group Summit Australia conference in Melbourne in August 2019, I feel compelled to write another opinion article.

The conference was fantastic with over 600 attendees for the inaugural event with lots of great local and international presenters as well as many exhibitors and sponsors.

But the number of Microsoft Dynamics GP customer sites represented was extremely low and quite disappointing. After investing time and money to attend and exhibit at a conference, it feels like a missed opportunity when the target audience is barely represented.

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Leave a comment Posted on 13 August 201912 August 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, GPUG, News

#GPUGSummit Vote for your GPUG All Stars for 2019

Bob McAdam has announced that voting for the GPUG All Stars for 2019 is open from now until 30^th August 2019.

There are 25 end users and 34 partners nominated and awaiting your votes for this year’s GPUG All Star award. Think of who of the nominees is out there actively promoting Microsoft Dynamics GP for the great product it is and is helping others with blog posts and helpful responses to forum questions.

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Leave a comment Posted on 15 July 201915 July 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, GPUG, News

#GPUGSummit Nominate your GPUG All Stars for 2019

Bob McAdam has announced that nominations for the GPUG All Stars for 2019 are open from now until 2^nd August 2019.

You can put forward the names of customers and partners who your feel embody what it means to be a GPUG All Star. Think of people in the GPUG community who are out there actively promoting Microsoft Dynamics GP for the great product it is and who are helping others with blog posts and helpful responses to forum questions.

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Leave a comment Posted on 2 July 20192 July 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#UserGroupSummit Winthrop Development Consultants at Summit Australia 2019

We are closing in on the start of the User Group Summit Australia in Melbourne with only 50 days to go before the conference, which runs between Wednesday 21^st and Friday 23^rd August 2019. There is also a pre-conference Partner only day on Tuesday the 20^th August 2019.

I am really looking forward to this conference as it is the first time there has been a User Group event in Australia and the first time for many years that there has been any event for Microsoft Dynamics GP partners and customers.

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Leave a comment Posted on 16 June 20192 July 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Microsoft, Products

#UserGroupSummit Summit Australia Session Schedule now available

Just in case you missed it.

The Dynamic Communities team have published the session schedule for the Summit Australia for Microsoft Business Applications 2019 conference being held in Melbourne on 21-23 August 2019.

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Leave a comment Posted on 15 June 201915 June 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Microsoft, Products

#UserGroupWT User Group World Tour 2019 – Johannesburg

Hello from Johannesburg.

Yesterday was the final day of the User Group World Tour 2019 conference in Johannesburg. It was a fantastic two days jammed packed with lots of sessions and plenty of “advanced networking opportunities” *.

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Leave a comment Posted on 7 June 20199 June 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Dynamics, GP, GPUG, Microsoft, News

#UserGroupSummit Join us for Summit Australia for Microsoft Business Applications 2019

For many years I have dreamed of having a User Summit event in Australia, so that the Asia Pacific region could get some conference “love” without having to travel to the USA. That dream is now a reality with the Summit Australia 2019 conference in Melbourne, Australia.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Microsoft Dynamics (especially Dynamics GP) and Power platform products. Register before 12th June to get the Early Bird Discount.

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Leave a comment Posted on 5 June 201911 July 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Products, Training

#GPPT GP Power Tools Training at User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA

I am pleased to announce that there will be GP Power Tools training offered by the GPUG Academy during the training days before User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

We have previously run this training as two half day courses, but it worked best when students attended both the morning and afternoon sessions. So, this year we have decided to run the training as a single full day course on Monday 14^th October 2019.

We have lots of new functionality to cover with the releases of Build 26 and Build 27 of GP Power Tools this year.

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Leave a comment Posted on 4 June 201915 June 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Dynamics, GP, GPUG, Microsoft, News, Training

#UserGroupWT Join us at the User Group World Tour 2019 – Johannesburg, South Africa

In less than a week, I am getting on a plane and heading west to Johannesburg, South Africa for the User Group World Tour conference. This will be my third Microsoft Dynamics GP conference in South Africa and I am looking foward to spending time with the community again.

If you are not registered yet, now is your chance to learn how to get the most from your software investment.

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2 Comments Posted on 3 June 201911 July 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dexterity, GPUG, Training

Announcing Dexterity Training at User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA

The 2019 conference season starts soon (just a week to Johannesburg, South Africa), and it is time to take advantage of the Dexterity Bootcamp training that is being run in the week prior to User Group Summit 2019 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Dexterity is the development environment that Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on and the best tool to use for any customisation to the user interface of the product. Knowledge of Dexterity is vital for anyone customising Dynamics GP even when using other languages such as C#, VB.Net and even VBA (Visual Basic for Application).

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3 Comments Posted on 21 May 201920 May 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, GP Power Tools, Products, Training

#GPPT GP Power Tools Training before User Group World Tour 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa

As mentioned yesterday, I am heading to Johannesburg, South Africa for the User Group World Tour 2019 conference and will be offering Dexterity training afterwards.

However, I will also be offering a day of free GP Power Tools training (available to registered conference attendees) during the pre conference Workshop day on Tuesday 11^th June 2019.

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4 Comments Posted on 20 May 20197 June 2019 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dexterity, Training

Announcing Dexterity Training after User Group World Tour 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa

I will be heading to Johannesburg, South Africa soon for the User Group World Tour 2019 conference organised by Dynamic Communities.

After the conference I have been asked by a customer to run Dexterity Training for some of their staff and so this has been planned to run in the week following the conference. Additional, but limited room, is available at this training and so I am opening this up to any partner or customer who can attend.

Dexterity is the development environment that Microsoft Dynamics GP is built on and the best tool to use for any customisation to the user interface of the product. Knowledge of Dexterity is vital for anyone customising Dynamics GP even when using other languages such as C#, VB.Net and even VBA (Visual Basic for Application).

This training is being offered at a special reduced price and I cannot guarantee that there will be another opportunity to receive this training in the region or at this price.

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Leave a comment Posted on 4 April 201912 May 2019 by WinthropDC Conference

The 2019 Conference Season is getting closer

The conference season for 2019 is approaching and I am going to be very busy doing lots of travelling, presenting, exhibiting and training.

I have been working hard on the development of the Winthrop Development Consulting products with new builds of GP Power Tools, Batch Posting Service Toolkit and Visual Studio Integration Toolkit being released already and another new build of GP Power Tools currently in development.

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Leave a comment Posted on 19 December 201819 December 2018 by WinthropDC Conference, GPUG, News, Public Service Announcement

Action Required: User Group Summit Australia 2019 in Melbourne

Dynamics Communities is finally planning to bring the User Group Summit conference down under to Melbourne, Australia on 21-23 August 2019.

No, this is not an April Fool post, it is true. However, whether it will have content for Microsoft Dynamics GP has not yet been confirmed.

So, please read on for your URGENT CALL TO ACTION ….

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1 Comment Posted on 1 October 20181 October 2018 by WinthropDC 2018, 2018 R2, Batch Posting Service Toolkit, Conference, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Microsoft, News, Products, SQL Server, Training, Visual Studio, Windows

GPD Pocket 2 7″ Mini Laptop Windows 10 PC

You might have seen my posts on Twitter and Facebook recently about my new ~~toy~~ mini laptop PC, the crowd funded GPD Pocket 2.

I have been burnt before with crowd funded projects (I supported 3 smartwatches and only one make it to production and it under-delivered 🙁 ), so I was wary of getting involved again. However, this was the second generation of the GPD Pocket and demo devices had already been delivered to a number of YouTube reviewers. I felt fairly safe to get involved with crowd funding again, as this would give me a discount and get the device earlier.

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5 Comments Posted on 4 September 20184 September 2018 by WinthropDC 2018 R2, Conference, Dynamics, GP, GPUG, Microsoft, News

#GPTechConf Microsoft Dynamics GP Tech Conference 2018 Wrap Up

In August, I went on my annual pilgrimage to Fabulous Fargo for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Tech Conference 2018. The event was held at the Microsoft Campus in Fargo, ND, USA on the 20^th to 22^nd August 2018.

While smaller than previous years it was still well attended and everyone who was there found it worthwhile, both for the technical knowledge and product information provided as well as for the social and networking opportunities.

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Leave a comment Posted on 30 August 201830 August 2018 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Microsoft, Products, Training

#GPUGSummit GPUG Summit 2018 in Phoenix, AZ, USA early bird pricing ends soon

The GPUG Summit 2018 Conference is fast approaching. It is being held on October 15-18, 2018 at the Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Winthrop Development Consultants will be at the conference as I am training 3 GPUG Academy classes and co-presenting at least 5 sessions. We will also have booth 1540 at the Expo.

Register now before the early-bird pricing runs out on September 6^th… Don’t forget to use the Winthrop 10% discount code below.

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8 Comments Posted on 25 August 201829 August 2018 by WinthropDC Batch Posting Service Toolkit, Conference, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Microsoft, Products, Public Service Announcement

#GPPT #BPST PLEASE READ: Special promotion for Pennies for Taylor

About seven weeks ago, my good friend, fellow MVP & GPUG All-Star, blogger and past co-presenter, Shawn Dorward‘s life was turned upside down when his eighteen year old son, Taylor was involved in a drowning accident.

Thanks to Taylor’s friends and the emergency teams, Taylor survived but has suffered significant brain damage. He is now on the long road to recovery and making great progress.

Please read on and watch the video to see how you can help and for more information on the special promotion that I am running through Winthrop Development Consultants. Taylor needs your support.

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2 Comments Posted on 10 August 20188 August 2018 by WinthropDC Conference, GPUG, News

#GPUGSummit Vote now for your GPUG All Stars for 2018

Bob McAdam has announced that 2018 GPUG All*Star voting is now available.

After the nominations closed recently, #GPUGSummit Last days to nominate your GPUG All Stars for 2018, it is now time to cast your votes for a customer and partner GPUG All Star before the survey closes on Friday 31^st August 2018.

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