Microsoft Great Plains ERP is targeted to mid-size and in certain verticals to large organizations, and its deployment should be coordinated by your Great Plains VAR or reseller
Microsoft Business Solutions sells GP software licenses through Dynamics GP partner channel to ensure certified consultants, programmers, sales engineers and project management involvement in Great Plains implementing. In this publication we would like to give you installation highlights
1. GP Installation Server Side. You can deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 or 2008 64 or 32-bit. Please, note that Microsoft is working to make GP Business Portal compatible with 64 bit platform. If you plan to host Great Plains Business Portal 10.0 on the same server, you should consider 32-bit version. GP 10.0 also is supported on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with SP3a or 4. We recommend you to install SQL 2005 to be current in technology trends
2. GP Installation Client Side. Vista – if you plan to install GP on Vista, please in Control Panel User Accounts turn off User Account Control. Both 64 and 32 bit Vista workstations are compatible, plus feel free to install GP on Windows XP Pro (or Home Edition, Media Center and other flavors). When GP workstation is installed, ODBC connection will be created automatically (if you do not turn off the default ODBC creation check mark). Great Plains communicates with SQL Server via ODBC DSN interface
3. GP Service Packs Strategy. Great Plains service packs are generally excellent idea to stay current with known bugs fixed, plus potentially security concerns. However if you are planning to upgrade Dynamics GP from earlier versions: 9.0 or 8.0 to current GP version 10.0, service pack application is required. Please, note, that you can only upgrade to 10.0 if you are on 8.0 or 9.0. If you on 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 or 3.2 you should design your upgrade path in several steps. If you are on eEnterprise version 6.0, for example, you should consider upgrade to 7.5 GP Professional and then to 9.0 Pro and finally to 10.0. Please be sure you applied at the final step GP 10.0 SP2 (or the latest available at the time of upgrade, article has historical bias and may be outdated at the time when you read it)
4. GP Reports.DIC file. If you are deploying GP in multiuser environment, we recommend you to share Reports.dic file on the network. Please be sure, that you edited your Dynamics.set file on each of your user workstation. The following default line should be altered:
:C:Program Files/Microsoft Dynamics/GP/Data/REPORTS.DIC
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Planning Dynamics GP Customization in Large Corporation
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