Everything Dynamics GP #1

• Product Vision, Roadmap and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 Videos (Pam Misialek )
• Need Sure Step Training? GPUG Can Help. (Pam Misialek) – Pam points to the Project Managing Dynamics Implementations with Sure Step training in August
• Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook Kindle Edition! (Mark Polino) – The most popular GP book ever, is now available on Kindle. I love this book, and I love Kindle – so will have to buy this even though I already have bought the PDF ebook.
• Earn Referral Fees by Submitting Microsoft Dynamics Leads that Result in a Sale! (Kevin Machayya)
• Sharpen the Axe - Enhance your GP Knowledge (Frank Hamelly) – shares his presentation highlighting the learning resources for Dynamics GP
• Securing Word Template Documents in Dynamics GP 2010 when using Word 2010 – Video (Dave Bader)
• Microsoft Introduces Solutions to Help Partners Build New Business With Cloud Computing (Kevin Machayya) – From what I understand looks like ERP RapidStart Services built on Azure will be available for Dynamics AX in September. The RapidStart services will help partners quickly configure and set up consistent and repeatable steps common across the life cycle of an ERP deployment, reducing the initial implementation time so they can focus on delivering profitable value-added services
• How to calculate Aging Buckets based on documents shown on a Receivables Statement (David Musgrave) – Shows how to manipulate multiple single records of data (with a column identifier and amount)  into a single summary record with multiple columns

Software

• Microsoft's upcoming products available for download (Mariano Gomez) – Mariano highlights the latest SQL, Office and IE releases/downloads
• SQL Server codename "Denali" CTP3, including Project "Crescent" is now publically available (Thierry Dhers) – among other things, with this release you can - setup alert rules and be alerted when report data changes occur that match a set of rules. This would work for existing SSRS Reports

Events

• Meet You There! – Pam, Jay and Errol want you to start planning for GPUG Summit in November 7-11 in Vegas
• Day 3 at #WPC11 #WPCLA  and Sir Richard Branson at #WPC11 #WPCLA Day 4 (Doug Pitcher) – Doug is giving his updates from WPC 11

Database

• Microsoft Dynamics GP The Almighty SQL Server Backup (Belinda Allen) – Taking backups in SQL Server 2008 R2  (and directly from GP)
• Announcing: SQL Azure July 2011 Service Release (Steve-Yi)
• Do you use T-SQL debugging? (Jakub Dvorak)

Other Interesting Stuff

• ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap (Phil Haack)
• Common Design Patterns Resources (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft to connect Kinect and robots (Mary Jo Foley)
• WP7: Mango to be released in September (or earlier!) (Owen Williams)

Dynamics GP Video of the Day

• Microsoft Dynamics GP FRx Sales Report (Belinda Allen) – on creating an operational report from scratch.