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This is the most common question I get to hear from many customers as well as various forums discussing on Dynamics GP. I thought I’d put some information here for those who are uncertain about which way they should go, whether WSS or MOSS 2007. 1. If you want to install Business Portal, You can choose either Windows SharePoint services (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint (MOSS) 2007. It works with both these services. However, It depends on other factors also as given in below lines. 2. Within Business Portal, If you are looking to have the Search site functionality, then you would need MOSS 2007 3. If you want the Workflows for Dynamics GP besides Business Portal, you’d need MOSS 2007. Remember that Business Portal is not a pre-requisite to installing Workflows as both of them work independent to each other. 4. If you require Field Services suite within Business Portal, then you should be looking at MOSS 2007 5. If you choose MOSS 2007, then the prerequisite to Business Po...

In one of my earlier articles, I covered a common issue that we encounter during installation of workflows. In this article, I’d cover another issue that we encounter during uninstallation and reinstallation of workflows. Background of this issue goes on like this before I present the troubleshooting route that I took to overcome the same. In one of my implementations, I have installed all the pre-requisites required for Workflows and configured them successfully. Same is the case with Workflows for which the installation went peacefully. Problems started only when I identified the workflows are not working properly with the Approvals during the initial testing. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to take the hard way to get out of this issue. I decided to uninstall the Workflows completely and reinstall the same. Even repairing workflows wasn’t working. To add to my already existing problems, the uninstallation also failed returning a fatal error. After several attempts ...

During Web Services for Dynamics GP installation in windows 2003 Server, we receive a Fatal Error during installation, if it doesn’t meet certain pre-requisites. I’ll cover the possible troubleshooting steps in this article.We also see Rolling back IIS Metabase transaction, then the installation fails giving fatal error. We also might receive an error “The user account specified for the Dynamics Security Service worker process is invalid”.   Possible Resolutions : 1. Ensure Full permissions are assigned to the ASP.Net Temp folder to IIS_WPG group before installing Web services. The default location would be C://Windows/.Net Framework/V2.0.5727/Temp folder. 2. In the web server running IIS6.0, Ensure Directory security is set to Integrated Authentication and Unmark the Anonymous Access. 3. If installing to Default Website, Ensure the port-80 is free and unused by any other site 4. If SQL server and the Web server where Web services are being installed on different se...