IT and Networking Support for Dynamics GP Great Plains ERP
Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise, is client-server application, meaning that if you are small business and you do not have in house IT department, Dynamics GP support from computer hardware and networking sides might be an issue.
Consider the needs to first make Server hardware selection,
often translated in Windows Small Business Server installation and
configuration, Microsoft Exchange setup, Dynamics GP MS SQL Server Reporting Services
reports installation and web exposure, Dynamics GP Business Portal and
Sharepoint application, plus of course Microsoft SQL Server itself
installation, maintenance plans setup, including DB backup. All these questions should be addressed and
your IT support consultant should be familiar with all or some of these tools
and technologies. In this publication we
are giving you Dynamics GP networking support options overview:
1.
Hardware selection for initial Dynamics GP Great
Plains implementation or version upgrade.
You should check with your Great Plains VAR and ask them to give you
recommended Server and Workstation hardware and software configuration. For each version of GP Microsoft Business
Solutions has special recommendations.
Please, pay special attention to SCSI hard drives and their
configuration, as this seems to be substantial cost of the server hardware and
it translates to your data storage reliability
2.
SQL Server.
We assume that you are on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and installing
Dynamics GP version 10.0. Please, read
recommended SQL maintenance plans for Dynamics GP databases. Here you cannot just follow the instructions,
you need to work out the strategy. For
example, if you have heavy GP transactions traffic, and you need point of time ?
you will need to switch your company DB to full recovery model ? then you will
be able to setup fill back up with the series of following transaction logs
backups. These questions might be
trivial for experienced MS SQL Server DBA, but if you are small business owner ?
you have to know at least the right questions to ask in selecting Networking
consultant
3.
New GP users installations. If you decide to host your Dynamics GP server
as well as GP client (on Citrix or Terminal Server) ? then there is no need to
install new GP client application.
However here you will need appropriate printer drivers installation on
the hosted Terminal Server computer in order to allow users print GP invoices
and reports locally in the office. In
the case of deploying GP on your network locally ? you may decide to create GP
installation package and publish new update or GP service pack automatically
4.
Alba Spectrum support. We offer local Dynamics GP aware engineers in
Chicago, Houston , San Diego and Orange County.
For country side businesses we offer web sessions training for your IT departments
as well as remote support via VPN and RDC technologies
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