Microsoft Great Plains version update to 10.0 latest notes – Alba Spectrum

 

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According to Microsoft Dynamics GP technical support, today on November 16, 2007 MBS release Service Pack 1 for GP 10.0, and by doing this ended long lasting GP upgrade path problem: if you were on GP 9.0 higher than SP2, then you had to wait with upgrading to GP version 10.0.  In this small article we would like to stress some of the known issues fixed in 10 SP1:

  1. IV10200 upgrade freezing.  According to MBS technical sources, if you had over several hundred thousand records in this table, the chances were high that upgrade will fail.  In our practice we have upgrade example, where number of records in IV10200 is below one hundred thousand, and it was still crashing at this step
  2. GP 9.0 to 10.0 upgrade performance issue.  From various sources we had the story that upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0 took a way longer than upgrade from 7.0 to 10.0.  This issue is fixed in GP 10.0 SP1
  3. Security migration 9.0->10.0 failure issue.  As you might know if you follow upgrade wizard and select default path for GP 10 workstation installation, security migration should fail.  And this is due to the spaces in “Microsoft Dynamics GP” path.  In the past what you had to do is supersede default installation path with the one without spaces
  4. Upgrade recommendations.  If you are on version 9.0, then install GP 10.0 and apply service pack 1 prior to launching GP utilities
  5. Security upgrade workaround.  In GP 10.0 Security architecture was completely redesigned and now it represents nice tasks and roles.  However for you it means that you will have to come through homework and review existing security settings, especially former 9.0 user classes and then base GP security roles on GP modules specific assignment: GL, Project Accounting, Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, Inventory Control, etc.

 

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com - help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving customers USA/Canada nationwide: Illinois, California, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas. Local service is available in Houston & Dallas: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village, Fort Worth; serving GP customers in Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora, Joliet, Wheaton, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lyons, Niles, Downers Grove, Lisle, West Chicago, Barrington, Schaumburg, Elk Grove Village, Lombard, Morris, Ottawa, Marseilles, Seneca, Oswego, Plainfield, Darien, Winchester, Hinsdale.