Great Plains Installation and Customization on Vista workstation

By: Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Dynamics GP workstation is compatible with Vista,
including Vista 64 bit. However if you try to install it on
Vista as it is, you will be getting error message: â?oAn error
occurred while using the BCP utility -- data was not correctly
copied to the server.� Actually all you need to do it to turn
off User Account Control in control panel User Accounts. Then
just launch GP installation and follow the wizard. We will be
assuming here that you are installing GP version 10.0, which is
the latest one at the time of writing this news ��" May
2008. Letâ?Ts review installation and modification in relation
to Vista and 64 bit Windows server and SQL Server 2005: 1.
eConnect runtime. At this time COM+ side of eConnect is not
compatible with 64 bit platform. So, if you are planning to
install the tool, where eConnect is utilized: Integration
Manager for example, please be sure that COM+ or local objects
of eConnect will reside on 32 bit computer

2. Dexterity custom logic and add-ons. They should be compatible
with Vista, assuming that Dex doesnâ?Tt call COM objects, but
being honest ��" this is very unusual for Dexterity to do
something like that. Such popular Dex add-ons as Posting Server
should work out of the box

3. FRx. When you are planning to deploy FRx, please know that
6.7 version SYSDATA folder must be resided on 32 bit Windows
server. Please, understand that FRx 6.7 was introduced in 2005
at the time when Vista was only in inception stage and AMD was
just releasing its first Athlon 64 processors

4. MS Visual Studio C# or VB programming add-ons. Here you are
typically deploy either ADO.Net or directly eConnect (which is
definitely preferred over ADO, but requires learning curve)

5. SRS versus Crystal Reports. In essence, if you are ready to
launch reports as stand alone application, we donâ?Tt see any
revolutionary advantage of one reports design tool over another.
SRS or Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is web
application, maybe this fact gives you some advantage, as SRS
could be deployed on your web server and so exposed to your
worldwide users

6. eCommerce. Here we encourage you to review Posting Server,
allowing you to post GP batches in Sales Order Processing and
other modules automatically



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