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David Meego - Click for blog homepageIf you need to customize Microsoft Dynamics GP or maintain existing customizations, David Musgrave from Winthrop Development Consultants will be running two extremely valuable development training courses before Community Summit 2025 and now it is time to register.

The conference will be held on the 19th to 23rd October 2025. There will be pre-conference GP Development training in the week before the conference as well as Academy days before and after the conference itself.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageImplementation Specialists are excited to announce that registration for GPUC25 is officially open!

Winthrop Development Consultants is proud to be a sponsor and David Musgrave MVP will also be remotely presenting some sessions.

Join us November 16 – 21, 2025 at the Microsoft Campus in Fargo, ND for a week packed with practical learning, expert-led sessions, and valuable networking.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday is your last chance to save $100 on your Community Summit NA 2025 registration with the Early Bird special extended to the end of Monday 4th August 2025.

Get discounted registration now for Community Summit, attend the free Dynamics GP Digital Summit, and get trained in Dexterity and GP Power Tools.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis article is designed to help you perform a system audit on your Microsoft Dynamics GP system and is used as part of my Microsoft Dynamics GP Systems Audit session in the first week of the Dynamics GP Strategic Planning Digital Summit being held each Wednesday for the next 5 weeks.

Identifying the installed products in the system is fairly easy as you can look at the Dynamics.set launch file to see all the Dexterity product dictionaries loaded.

However, having a product loaded in a system does not necessarily mean that it has been used.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAttention all Microsoft Dynamics GP Customers.

With the End of Support for Dynamics GP by 2031, existing GP customers need to plan what they want to do moving into the future. Should they stay with Dynamics GP? Should they implement a new Microsoft ERP? Should they implement an ERP from another company?

Dynamics Communities have joined with community members to present a free five week Dynamics GP Strategic Planning Digital Summit.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is another update to the previous version of the change tracking project for Item cards:

Based on the version 3 project, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 changes the project to use a Custom Table and Custom Table Buffer calls rather than SQL Scripts and Parameter Lists. So, it does require Build 32 or later to work.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is another update to the previous versions of the change tracking projects for Customer and Vendor cards:

Based on the version 4 projects, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 changes the project to use a Custom Table and Custom Table Buffer calls rather than SQL Scripts and Parameter Lists. So, it does require Build 32 or later to work.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThanks to Noah Moseley for inviting me to be part of his Presenter Spotlights Podcast series.

We had a fun time discussing many topics including Microsoft Dynamics GP development and customization, the End of Support announcement, the training and sessions I will be presenting at Community Summit 2025, and finally Australian chocolates, Tim Tams and Vegemite!

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is taking part in the upcoming GP Demo Day by The ISV Society on 28th May 2025 at 1:00pm (US Eastern Time).

Join us and see how the new GP Power Tools Form Control module helps you adapt Microsoft Dynamics GP to your exact business needs—with little to no code.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageDo you want to customize Microsoft Dynamics GP or have customizations that you want to support into the future? Now is your chance for both customers and partners to get trained in Dexterity, the development environment that Dynamics GP is built on.

Understanding Dexterity will help any developer working with Dynamics GP regardless of the development environment they end up using. This knowledge is vital for developers using Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools (C# or VB.Net), “End of Life” Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), or using the GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module.

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I will be running the 5-day Dexterity Fundamentals for Dynamics GP bootcamp training class in the week before the Community Summit conference in Orlando, Florida, USA in October. Please register for the training now and plan to be in Orlando for the week before the conference.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI have been meaning to write this article for quite a while. The Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) is a product created by Winthrop Development Consultants to provide a variety of methods for posting, maintaining, transferring batches, etc.

The API’s (Application Programming Interface) can be called externally as a Service Based Architecture (SBA) Web Service (for GP 2015 or later), or from inside the Microsoft Dynamics GP application using Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools (via C# or VB.Net) or via GP Power Tools.

The Batch Posting Service Toolkit is exactly that, a toolkit designed to be called by a developer and so it does not have an interface (except for testing the API). However, you can use the Scheduling functionality in GP Power Tools to post batches on a scheduled basis, read on for more details ….

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageScheduling or automating tasks in Microsoft Dynamics GP is a common request, so this example demonstrates a method that can be used to run any process on a scheduled or automated basis using GP Power Tools.

The specific example we will be using is running an Inventory Item Reconcile on items that have been flagged as needing reconciliation. This code was developed in conjunction with Arthur Achilleos, who has agreed for it to be published.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageA recent GP Power Tools customization project for Microsoft Dynamics GP which I assisted a customer to create, ensures that a GL Account Number is entered on each line of a Purchase Order Transaction.

The customer for which this project created for has allowed it to be published on the blog to benefit anyone else who would like similar functionality.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageUsing the GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module for customization is a great method of automating processes in Microsoft Dynamics GP as well as customizing behavior to meet the requirements of your business.

Many customers are also using GP Power Tools to replace Visual Basic for Applications now that it is “End of Life” and unsupported.

I was recently asked how to hide a window opened and closed as part of an automation using GP Power Tools. This article explains the techniques you can use to open a window as hidden.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday, I received an email from Terry Heley of Microsoft confirming that the End of Support date for Microsoft Dynamics GP has been extended by 3 months from 30th September 2029 to 31st December 2029.

This extension enables the Microsoft Dynamics GP development and support teams to release an End of Year (EOY) update to meet any of the payroll and tax requirements to complete the year.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageFor many years the Microsoft Dynamics GP Community Forum was one of the best places to get help and discuss all things relating to our wonderful Microsoft Dynamics GP / Great Plains product.

That was until 08-Nov-2024 when Microsoft, in its wisdom, consolidated the forums and combined the Microsoft Dynamics GP forum with the Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Dynamics 365 forums into a single forum, the Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, AX, GP, SL Community Forum.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThanks to everyone who attended last week’s DynamicsCon Virtual conference. Winthrop Development Consultants was proud to be the Champion sponsor of the Dynamics GP track.

During the conference a sponsor video about the new Form Control module was broadcast. The Form Control module was added to GP Power Tools build 31 or later, available for Microsoft Dynamics GP version 18.2 (modern lifecycle) or later.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageOn 25th September 2024, Microsoft announced they will end product support and updates for Dynamics GP on the 30th of September 2029 (with security patches ending on the 30th of April 2031). As a result, many Dynamics GP users are making decisions on their future plans with GP.

This survey from AccountingWare, the people behind the ActivReporter reporting tool for GP and previous reports from surveys, is intended to learn more about what other GP users think about this announcement, and what strategic plans GP users will make as a result.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe Great Plains User Conference is fast approaching. The GPUC 2024 event is hosted by Implementation Specialists in Fargo, ND, USA (in person and virtually) from 18th to 22nd of November 2024.

Winthrop Development Consultants is proud to be a sponsor for the conference. If you have not registered yet, please consider signing up to attend the 4 days of sessions either in person or virtually.

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