Microsoft Dynamics Marketing News from Merit Solutions

Duplicate CRM Picklist Values from one Object to Another

2008-09-04T15:51:49Z

Is there any easy way to duplicate picklist values from one object to another? Lets look at the payment terms picklist for an example. Some users have used about 125 different values and need the payment terms to be on the account object, the order object, and the invoice object (and maybe some others). In this example, the picklist already exists on the account object, and we have to put it into the order and invoice. Export Customization of Account Entity. To export a customization go to the Settings...(read more)

Merit Momentum August Newsletter

2008-09-03T18:36:00Z

Your Merit Momentum Newsletter is Now Available for Viewing. Product Spotlight: Dynamics AX 2009 Compliance Center With the addition of a Compliance Center in Dynamics AX 2009, businesses can drive compliance throughout their organization while reducing the costs. FRx Reporting Services Merit Solutions' team has a deep expertise in / knowledge of Microsoft FRx. Take advantage of our offer to Save 10% off on Microsoft FRx Reporting Services before September 30, 2008. Tips and Tricks of the Month...(read more)

Microsoft FRx Reporting Services

2008-08-27T12:00:00Z

Do you have Microsoft FRx but are not using it at all? Are you looking for help improving your financial reporting? Do you even know how to use FRx to begin with? Merit Solutions can help with all of your FRx needs. We have a great deal of experience helping users meet their reporting and analysis needs using Microsoft FRx. We can help your business with: Set up, installation, and configuration of FRx Report writing Training (at our facility, or at yours) Reporting distribution and more!! Act now...(read more)

Dynamics AX 2009 Compliance Center

2008-08-26T20:42:42Z

M icrosoft Dynamics AX 2009 supports compliance enforcement by deploying an out-of-the-box Compliance Center with Windows SharePoint Services. The Compliance Center simplifies compliance efforts and helps keep business information secure through a comprehensive set of tools to manage and control electronic content. The internal control environment helps facilitate corporate governance over business process content, internal control documentation, audit information, and reporting and provides a graphical...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics Snap and AX 2009

2008-08-19T14:19:42Z

Microsoft has released two Microsoft Dynamics Snap applications for Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) 2009. These sample applications show the potential of integrating the 2007 Microsoft Office system with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 by providing functioning end-to-end capabilities in source code form. The two snap applications available are: Business Data Lookup: This Microsoft Dynamics Snap application allows an information worker to search for and insert Microsoft Dynamics® AX data into a Microsoft...(read more)

What is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

2008-08-19T10:10:00Z

Confused with term SOA? I'll help you understand the basic principles that stand behind what we call a Service Oriented Architecture. If you just want a simple, one sentence explanation, here it comes: SOA is a new approach to building IT systems, where logic is decomposed into smaller, distinct units . Those units are called services. Seems like nothing new, but what makes SOA special is the set of design principles. Before we discuss the principles of SOA design, let just make it clear what...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics Suggestions / Feedback

2008-08-13T14:13:00Z

Have you always wondered where, or even if, you can request or suggest product enhancements, as well as notify Microsoft of product defects, for the Microsoft Dynamics Products? Well - now you can through Microsoft Connect. Microsoft Dynamics customers and partners can use this site to submit suggestions and feedback about the Microsoft Dynamics family of products (new users will have to create an account ). Users will also be able to search other suggestions / feedback to find see if their idea...(read more)

Some Free Web Services

2008-08-11T14:02:00Z

There are many articles on how to write and deploy your own Web Service. Here, I will show you where you can find Web Services that other people have created and made public. Many interesting Web Services that you can use free of charge can be found at: http://www.webservicex.net http://www.wsoogle.com . This may be particularly interesting when you are developing Web applications. For example, you would like to have some kind of currency conversion in your Web app. However, exchange rates are different...(read more)

VMware Workstation and MS VPC - The operation completed successfully!

2008-08-07T13:14:00Z

Recently the need has arisen to set up a virtual machine that will run a 64-bit version of Windows Vista on one of our servers. Microsoft VPC 2007 with several running VM's was already installed, but unfortunately this version of VPC doesn't support 64-bit guest operating systems. So, we had to look for alternatives that would work with our current environment correctly. There aren't so many virtualization products that will let a 64-bit guest enter the house so far. Actually, there are...(read more)

Dynamics GP 10.0 MRP Message Icons

2008-08-06T16:32:34Z

Dynamics GP V10 has a great new and easy to understand MRP message icons. When in the pegging inquiry (>Inquiry>Manufacturing>MRP>Pegging Inquiry) simply enter the item number you wish to inquire and you will see a list of documents (MO, PO, MMO, MPO, etc.) and each one of those documents may have one of the following special icons next to it. To view the exception message details, double click on the document. This will show the related sources of demand and supply documents in the lower...(read more)

Windows Communication Foundation

2008-08-01T08:33:39Z

.NET Framework 2.0 relies on several distributed programming technologies. Maybe you are already familiar with Web & Enterprise Services, .NET Remoting, WSE... All these technologies have some advantages and drawbacks that make them more or less suitable for performing certain tasks. For example, when creating an application that is supposed to be distributed over the Internet, on different machines with different operating systems, Web Services are what we need, because they offer an elegant...(read more)

New Microsoft Dynamics / Merit Solutions Demos Available

2008-07-29T18:51:11Z

After spending some time in the "recording studio", we have been able to make some new online demos available for on-demand viewing. Visit our Demo page for a complete listing of all of our online demos. Advanced Serial Management Merit Solutions Advanced Serial Management (ASM) module - another extension module for Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains) which increases operating control and allows you to track serialized information completely and automatically. Microsoft Dynamics...(read more)

Creating and using custom SOAP headers in Visual Studio 2005

2008-07-28T09:03:55Z

Web Services are a cool, platform and language independent way for applications to communicate. You may already know that peers use SOAP messages, based on XML, to make the communication possible. In this article we will learn how to create and use custom headers in our Web Services. We are going to use Visual Studio 2005 and C#, but things are not much different in VS2008. The SOAP envelope consists of body and header parts. While the body element is mandatory and has a predefined structure, the...(read more)

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 in testing Microsoft Dynamics (Part I)

2008-07-25T13:14:53Z

Having been heavily involved with testing Microsoft Dynamics custom products, I found Microsoft Virtual PC to be a must have tool. Not only because it saves a lot of money for not having to acquire different PCs in order to test products in different environments, but it also saves a lot of time. It just takes several simple rules to follow and knowing the functionalities that Microsoft Virtual PC has to offer. What I will share are tips and tricks I gathered over the years, best practices, as well...(read more)

Dynamics AX 2009 Demo Data

2008-07-21T18:14:45Z

Microsoft has released the demo data for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and "Contoso Entertainment Systems (CES)". Click the link below for the Demo Data Download (Partnersource login is required). Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Demo Data (Thanks again to DaxGuy for pointing this out)...(read more)

Dex.Ini Settings to Make Dynamics GP More Comfortable

2008-07-18T14:51:56Z

DEX.INI: The Microsoft Dynamics GP defaults files which contain setup and operating information. Each setting contains information such as where files are located and whether certain functions are performed. It is stored on each computer where the Microsoft Dynamics GP application files are installed. The information in the file affects only the computer where the file is located. This file is also essential for Microsoft Dynamics GP to run correctly, so we have to be very careful when editing it...(read more)

Rapid Implementation Tools for Dynamics GP

2008-07-16T19:20:45Z

Microsoft Dynamics GP has released new tools that streamline customer implementations and increase partner productivity. Designed to shorten deployment time and enable greater Partner productivity by reducing the time required for routine implementation tasks, Microsoft Dynamics GP has released new tools that help you quickly and reliably install the system, quickly set up core Business Essentials functionality, and efficiently update and then migrate customers’ legacy Intuit QuickBooks data. The...(read more)

MOSS Integration with CRM

2008-07-16T15:14:15Z

If you are using MOSS, did you know that you can do integration with your CRM? There are two ways to use these technologies simultaneously. The first is to use MOSS directly from your CRM, while the second is use certain features from MOSS within CRM. The first way is easily enabled by Iframe. Please see the example below: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/iframesharepoint.mspx . The second way is more complex, and is provided by the Business Catalog. The requirements are: The recommended...(read more)

PerformancePoint Time dimension

2008-07-14T21:17:12Z

I need to create a Time dimension that starts on 1/1/1970 to load historical data. However, when I create the PerformancePoint calendar, I can't go back more than 25 years from now. I also tried to sync the dimension to staging so that I could load it there, but then I can't load it back into production because the 'Load this dimension from Staging Area' is not available. Does anyone have a work around for this? It is a serious matter for me. Thanks, ceecee...(read more)

Leveraging Your People’s Skills by Choosing the Right Software

2008-07-11T21:16:09Z

How many times have we all started a new job and had to learn how to use a system that was totally counterintuitive to the point of obnoxious? Here’s the transcript from that first day at work (I’m overdramatizing, but not by much): New Hire: “So, there are sixty buttons on this screen. What do I do?” Trainer: (rolls eyes) “You push the F2 button and then hold down the shift button while you click the Administrative Indices drop down and push the F3 button.” NH: “I did that, and I don’t see the invoice...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics for Aerospace and Defense

2008-07-11T16:18:00Z

Are you an Aerospace and Defense Manufacturer looking to manufacture the safest, highest-quality products while providing the highest level of service to your customers. To gain and sustain a competitive advantage over your competition, you must be able to do all of this on time, within budget, and to stringent customer specifications. Merit Solutions' VECTOR Series Quality Management Suite, along with Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions, gives your company the ability to: Automatically Maintain...(read more)

Dynamics GP Workflow Tips for DEX_ROW_TS

2008-07-09T18:34:02Z

From the usability standpoint, workflow in Microsoft Dynamics GP can be used for maximizing efficiency by involving the right people at the right time. Microsoft Dynamics GP includes six workflows - and others can be built by Microsoft Dynamics partners. But from the developer's standpoint, it might make your software development project a little more challenging. Around 70 tables of Microsoft Dynamics GP got a new field used for workflow which cannot be seen from Dexterity. The field is DEX_ROW_TS...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics AX "How Do I" Videos

2008-07-03T14:12:16Z

The Microsoft Dynamics AX Developer Center has some "How Do I" Videos regarding Microsoft Dynamics AX and Enterprise Portal. These videos are designed for Microsoft Dynamics AX developers, from the novice to the professional. These videos include a number of series (updated on a regular basis): Form Series Enterprise Portal Series User Interface Series Application Integration Framework (AIF) Series Thanks to DaxGuy for originally pointing these out....(read more)

Dynamics Surestep for Software Development

2008-07-01T15:53:00Z

With our team working as "backbone" support for all of our on-site consultants and many other partners, we still haven't seen complete utilization of the SureStep methodology with Dynamics GP in a way that we expected it to. On the other side, our Dynamics AX team and partners use it frequently for overall project management; even there, the development piece seems to be less defined and open to discrepancies. In order to fulfill our clients' expectations for quality and timelines...(read more)

Reducing ERP Failure Rates with Dynamics AX 2009

2008-06-30T19:41:05Z

This is a very interesting perspective on Dynamics AX 2009 from Lee Pender and the RCP: Microsoft Dynamics AX: Feels So Good . One reason for the traditionally high ERP failure rate is organizational adaptability. With Dynamics AX 2009's easy user interface, this normal challenge for most organizations will be greatly reduced. Therefore, all else being equal, this will increase the likelihood of project and implementation success. A second reason for ERP failure is that new deployments often...(read more)