Patrick Roth - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Patrick Roth originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Having supported the various customization tools over the years, you run into common requests again and again.  Something that often surprises me is that you get requests to ‘customize’ Dynamics GP to make it do something and as it turns out Dynamics GP already does this out of the box.

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

Named Printers is a module to allow controlling of the printer and settings used when printing reports.  It was originally developed for v3.00 by me while I was working for Sequel Technology (that’s why the tables and calls are prefixed with ST).  Later it was purchased by Great Plains for v5.50 and included in core code (Dynamics.dic) for v6.00 onwards.

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

After the release of Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0, my good friend Mariano Gomez asked me if it was possible to use the tool to add menus from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

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

Why doesn’t the password I use for Microsoft Dynamics GP work for me to access the data in SQL from <insert application name here>?

Why does my password sometimes fail to work from one workstation when it works from another?

Why does the password policy feature only allow one failed attempt before locking me out?

Why is the User ID case sensitive on Microsoft Dynamics GP v10.00?

What is the Password field in the SY_Users_MSTR (SY01400) table used for?

Can I use my Windows or Active Directory Login to access Microsoft Dynamics GP?

I hope to answer all these questions and more by explaining the password encryption that is used by Microsoft Dynamics GP for all users except ‘sa’.

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