How to transfer Security Tasks and Roles between Systems

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series.

With the change from the optimistic user and class based security model in Microsoft Dynamics GP v9.0 (and v8.0) to the pessimistic role and task base security model in Microsoft Dynamics GP v10.0, a question that is often asked is how can security settings be transferred between a test and live system.

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Finding Table and Field Information in Microsoft Dynamics GP

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This is an updated version of an article I wrote a while back for the Microsoft Dynamics GP community website.  The links to the original article, as well as the associated Knowledge Base (KB) article are provided at the bottom of this post.

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SnapShot for Microsoft Dynamics GP

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Not long after I joined Microsoft in May 2001, I found myself working as part of a global development team for Asia Pacific. The team was based in Manila in the Philippines and was involved in a regional research project to check the feasibility of releasing a version of Great Plains eEnterprise v6.0 for China.

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