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How to Enable and Disable Maintenance Mode in Dynamics 365 FO

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Maintenance mode in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is required to be switched on for system administrators to make system changes that might affect system functionality. It is available for the safe use of the application. Only those users with Maintenance mode user role and system administrators roles can sign into the application till the time the mode is turned off. When the maintenance mode is switched off, there can't be changes made in certain areas of the system. Maintenance mode is required for activities such as activating financial dimensions, creating departments/cost centres, account structure activation and other system related functions. Enable and Disable Maintenance Mode  The easy way to enable and disable maintenance mode is using SQL query the D365 FO on premises is installed. Previously, Lifecycle services (LCS) used to have such an option for configuring the maintenance mode.  Maintenance mode can be changed from enabled to disabled and v

Dynamics GP Fixed Assets GL Posting Batch Missing After Depreciation Run

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I got a call from a user who was seemingly worried about her monthly depreciation batch went missing from GL posting routine in the Dynamics GP Fixed Assets. I quickly took her desktop on Teamviewer Quick support and understood the problem she is facing. Let me explain the issue in detail before I tell you the solution. Dynamics GP Fixed Assets GL Posting Issue Issue The user ran the depreciation routine in Dynamics GP for November month through Dynamics GP | Financial | Routines | Depreciate All Assets. Till here, all was good. She then proceeded to FA GL posting routine. Dynamics GP | Financial | Routines | GL Posting. She could not find the batch in GL posting lookup. In other words, the monthly depreciation batch is not accessible for posting. She then ran the depreciation process again and this time when she went to GL posting window and tried processing, the system threw an error message as below There are no transactions matching these restrictions. Modify yo

Dynamics GP 2016 Workflow Email Notification Error

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Dynamics GP Workflow interface has been simplified ever since GP 2013 was launched. The functionality continued to improve on each version release. The ability to setup and configure workflows within native GP interface has reduced several steps in the process. I got a call this morning from my client who's a happy customer using Dynamics GP workflows extensively in his organization for more than an year ever since I implemented GP for him. The problem is none of the workflow notifications are popping up in users inbox. Strange. After taking control of his screen through a remote connection, I quickly went with the series of troubleshooting steps. 1. What is the mail server used by client? Office 365. 2. Did the workflow email sender account password change recently? Yes. they did change the password recently. So, I went to Workflow setup window through Microsoft Dynamics GP | Administration | Workflow Setup and have him update the password twice. 3. After saving the

Dynamics GP 2016 Bank Reconciliation Training

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Dynamics GP 2016 Fixed Assets Training

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How to Publish Management Reporter Reports to SharePoint

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Recently I was asked to integrate Management Reporter reports to SharePoint Foundation 2010. With Management Reporter 2012 , it's quite simple to achieve.   All you have to do is to follow the steps below   1. Go to SharePoint site and create a document library .   2. Assign site permissions for the people who need to see the reports. Also provide Design and contribute permissions to the Management Reporter process service user .   3. Go to Management Reporter and choose the report from report definitions you'd want to publish to SharePoint.   4. Click  Output and Distribution tab from the report definition.      5. Check  Generate to multiple report library locations and add the SharePoint document library link in Related Report Link location as shown below.     6. If you want this report to be automatically publishing to SharePoint, You can setup a report schedule in Report scheduler .   7. You can see the reports in SharePoin

Deletion of company in Management Reporter

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One might see this error when attempting to delete a company in Management Reporter Configuration console .   "This company is referenced by an existing report definition or reporting tree definition. Remove these associations before deleting the company" For those who aren't aware as to how to delete or create a company in Management Reporter , It happens through configuration console which only Administrators can see that.   The first step of troubleshooting is to go and see if any existing report definitions or reporting tree definitions linked to this company.Change those definitions to other companies so that those references to the company in question are removed, if any.   There might be occasions where the company cannot be deleted despite no visible references in the definitions.   To troubleshoot this, Go to Management Reporter service logs in the configuration console. This is the first level of troubleshooting for Management Reporte