Everything Dynamics GP #31

Microsoft has unveiled a new Windows 8 preview at BUILD – it looks smashing! App Store, Metro Apps, designed for touch based interfaces, the near future looks very promising.

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GP

• More free bullets for PSTL (Dan Edwards) – discusses some of the other free PSTL tools. Read his first post here - PSTL - The often overlooked weapon for Dynamics GP 
• Quick Tip: Using substring() with a text field datatype (David Musgrave) – This guy is awesome! David review a cool sample from Sivakumar and updates it for longer snippets.
• Weekly Dynamic: POP Reference (Mark Polino)
• Field List button missing in Word Templates (Andy Sather) – explains what you need to do if your Field List button is missing.
• Dynamics GP Blog Interviews Planned (Jack Boyer)
• Buy 2 get 1 free | Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book and eBook Store

Reporting

• SQL Scripts–Invoices Coming Due Next Week (Ron)
• SQL view for user activity in Dynamics GP (Victoria Yudin)
• Manually changing SysData location (Joseph Tews) tackles this FRx task
• Error message when you start Microsoft FRx after applying a service pack: “Runtime Error 32797: Application Defined or Object Defined Error” (Joseph Tews)
• Failed to start service SPSearchServiceInstance on this server after completing upgrade. Please start it manually. (Joseph Tews)

Windows 8

• Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
• Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
• BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
• Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
• I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)
• Microsoft's Windows 8 by the numbers | ZDNet

Other Interesting Stuff

• MSDN Forum Assistant – If you use the forums often, this should be handy!
• Other Microsoft Dynamics Customer Support Changes

Jivtesh (Microsoft Dynamics GP MVP)
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