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David Meego - Click for blog homepageOn the 4th April 2023 Microsoft made an announcement about the future of licensing for new customer sales of Microsoft Dynamics GP. The details of this announcement, my thoughts on it and links to other related articles are available from:

On Friday 14th April 2023, MS Dynamics World and Dynamics User Group held a panel discussion on what the announcement means to the customer base, and it raised the concern that prompted this article.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageOn the 4th April 2023, Microsoft made an announcement about the future of new Microsoft Dynamics GP sales. While the details of the announcement are primarily behind “partner only” links, I wanted to explain the main points and how the announcement has very little effect for existing Microsoft Dynamics GP customers.

For existing Microsoft Dynamics GP customers nothing has really changed. Microsoft has committed to continuing support and development of Dynamics GP to 2028 and beyond.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe Community Summit 2023 conference will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA on 15th to 20th October 2023.

Winthrop Development Consultants will be there to run Dexterity Training in the week before the conference (9th to 13th October) and have a booth at the Expo as well as present some sessions.

And that is today’s topic. The call for speakers and session ideas is open until 31st March, so act now!

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageBack in mid-January, I had fantastic long chat with Christian Buckley from buckleyPLANET about my journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), my time with Microsoft, my work since starting Winthrop Development Consultants and my hobbies with music, Lego and robots.

We actually spoke for quite a while before the recording started and it was really enjoyable to compare notes with Christian as some elements of our respective career paths were very similar.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI have left this a bit later than I planned, but this is a request for sponsorship to help me fight cancer and its effects on those fighting this horrible disease as well as on their friends and family.

Canteen Australia is an amazing charity that supports youth and young adults who have been affected (directly or indirectly) by cancer. The Life Cycle for Canteen charity bike rides are the largest single source of financial support for Canteen in Western Australia. Since 1998 over $2,500,000 has been raised and donated.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI received a very interesting email yesterday. AccountingWare, the people behind the ActivReporter reporting tool for GP, created a report on the future of Dynamics GP based on the results of a survey of 164 Microsoft Dynamics GP customers.

This report supports anecdotal evidence that most of the Microsoft Dynamics GP customer base is happy staying with Dynamics GP for the foreseeable future.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe next installment of DynamicsCon conference is scheduled for 15th to 16th March 2023. The session submission period is over and now we enter the session voting period until 27th January 2023.

During this voting period all registered attendees have 8 votes to apply to sessions as they wish, then the votes will be tallied and the final session lists published. See this explanation for more details of the process.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageHello everyone.

This year has been a good year for Winthrop Development Consultants. We have been able to release awesome new builds of our products, write lots of interesting blog articles and share many GP Power Tools sample projects.

This year also marked the return to the conference circuit with David spending a very busy two weeks in Orlando for Community Summit 2022.

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Batch Posting Service Toolkit, Business, GP Power Tools, News, Products

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageBack in August 2022 we announced that after 7 years, we would be increasing the module pricing for Winthrop Development Consultants products, specifically GP Power Tools and Batch Posting Service Toolkit.

For more details see the original article:

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Business, Conference, Dynamics, GP, GPUG, Microsoft, News

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageYou might have heard about the “announcement” made by Mike Morton (Vice President, Dynamics 365 Business Central and SMB, Microsoft) during the Microsoft Dynamics GP General Session and his subsequent retraction and clarification.

I decided to write this article to provide my thoughts on what happened and the bigger issues it raises.

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