Belinda Allen tells me that PowerShell is just DOS. I can understand why she would think this, but she is, in fact, crazy. I believe this misunderstanding comes from the colloquial use of the term “DOS Prompt”, which falsely identifies the Command Prompt as DOS. For starters, DOS is a full operating system. While its
Read MoreMicrosoft Dynamics CRM by default will allow an export from CRM to Microsoft Excel of up to 10,000 records. If you are trying to export more than 10,000 records, CRM will allow the export, however there is no warning that only 10,000 of your 10,000+ records just exported. The solution for this is to increase
Read MoreIf you have customized the Group Names (i.e. ‘Common’, ‘Sales’, ‘Service’, ‘Marketing’, ‘processes’) located in the form navigation pane of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you need to assign the appropriate permissions to users so they can actually see these changes. The privilege inside of the security role that needs to be turned on is called ‘ISV
Read MoreRecently when I was creating an SSRS report and was having a difficult time inserting a watermark. Unlike Microsoft Word, there is no button called “watermark” where one can be easily inserted. I could also not find a way to have a text box with an adjusted transparency. Instead I came upon a very helpful
Read MoreWhen using Manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics GP (both GP 2010 and GP 2013), people not assigned to the POWERUSER role are unable to see Manufacturing SmartLists by default – even users who are assigned MFG ADMIN and MFG_INQUIRY roles. To grant permissions for these, you need to include them with a task. You can assign
Read MoreIn GP Manufacturing, the accounting flow for inventory transactions involved in a Manufacturing Order can be tricky, because they don’t all follow the same logic. Below is a summary of the accounting flow for some of the basic inventory transactions that take place during the Manufacturing process. Component Transaction Entry (Issue) Issues raw materials to
Read MoreIf you are familiar with Dynamics CRM 2013, than you are aware of the great new auto-save feature that was introduced with this release. By default, Dynamics CRM 2013 will auto-save the form you are working on every 30 seconds unless you increase the time-lapse period or disable the feature. If you disable the auto-save
Read MoreWe found an issue in Microsoft Dynamics CRM update rollups 15 and 16 when trying to apply filters to views. When adding any filters for “Related” records to a view and then saving the view and closing, the filter will not save. If you re-open the view to check for the filter you just added
Read MoreWorking with GP2013, I encountered this error logging in: “An error occurred while loading or initializing an addin. Ask your administrator to check the Windows event log for more details. Dynamics will now close.” Checking the Event Viewer provided a bit more information: “Microsoft Dexterity error: The description for Event ID 0 from source Microsoft
Read MoreIf GP seems unusually slow when starting up, it may be caused by reminders you have set. Upon startup, GP searches through the data for each reminder. Therefore if you have several reminders set on your Home screen, and/or if your reminders comb through a large amount of data, it can slow down GP’s startup
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