Does GP installation requeires domain controller?

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I am new to this gp and doing a research. does the installation of dynamics gp requires an active directory to be setup beforehand? is it a must? i am looking at gp 2016 thank you regards joie

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Richard Wheeler 75,850 Moderator on at

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In a test environment you could put GP on a workstation running SQL express. No active directory is required. Once you move to production and use Management Reporter and the web client you will need active directory.

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thank you richard

is the active directory requirement is because of enabling certain features. or is it out of the box GP will not function without active directory

thank you,

joie

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Richard Wheeler 75,850 Moderator on at

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There are a host of reason why AD is required. You can start with security. The services running SQL should be domain accounts and the credentials for these accounts should be known only to an extremely limited number of people. GP does have a payroll module so that data needs to be protected. The financial reporting tool called Management Reporting cannot be installed without a domain. Think of GP as the financial data center of your company so it has to be as secure as the rest of your network and fit within it confines.

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L Vail 65,271 on at

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You can run GP without active directory. You can run FRx without Active Directory. I don't think you can run Management Reporter without it. I know Management reporter requires a domain, but there are ways around that as well.

Kind regards,

Leslie

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Arturo Medina 696 on at

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From the top of my head, I'd also leave out "Service Architecture" component from the installation.

I was doing some tests recently with GP 2015, and was allowed to continue with the install process until an error mssg pop-up and a roll back took place.

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