Released on: August 31, 2008, 4:23 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum LLC

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: If you have outdated version of Great Plains Dynamics,
eEnterprise: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 4.0, Great Plains on Pervasive SQL or
Ctree/Faircom, or even Great Plains Accounting for DOS and Windows: 9.5, 9.2 or
earlier versions, there is the way to update to current Microsoft Dynamics GP
version 10.0 (or what is current on the moment, when you are reading these lines).


Press Release Body: If you have outdated version of Great Plains Dynamics,
eEnterprise: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 4.0, Great Plains on Pervasive SQL or
Ctree/Faircom, or even Great Plains Accounting for DOS and Windows: 9.5, 9.2 or
earlier versions, there is the way to update to current Microsoft Dynamics GP
version 10.0 (or what is current on the moment, when you are reading these lines).
Plus, the good news is - if you are in USA, Canada countryside, where local onsite
service is limited - modern remote support technologies: VPN, remote desktop
connections and web sessions can help you and will allow you to reduce Dynamics GP
version update cost

1. Establishing remote connection or VPN. Probably the best way is to open your
server to remote GP technician via VPN. Virtual Private Network or VPN encrypts its
traffic and when consultant is connected, she or he could make remote desktop
connection to your Server, which has local IP address: 10 or 192 series

2. SQL database upgrade options. In the case f you are on SQL Server option, it is
enough to make DB backup, upload it to your Great Plains consultant ftp site and all
work could be done in their office with following download back to your server and
mounting databases there

3. Great Plains Update paths. If you are on version 9.0 or 8.0, upgrade has only
one step. Please note, that you will need to apply current GP 10.0 service pack (if
upgrade to version 10.0) - do not try to upgrade to 10.0 without service pack -
there are numerous known issues. Plus GP 10.0 has newly redesigned security model
and the way to transfer old security is to apply GP 10.0 SP2. If you are on earlier
versions, then you will need to find the way to upgrade to 9.0 or 8.0 - very popular
path is from GP 7.5 to 9.0

4. Migration to MS SQL Server. If you are on version 7.5 or earlier with Ctree or
Pervasive SQL DB, then you should be aware about GP migration tool. If you have
Intellisol POP or Project Accounting - please check with us on conversion tool

5. GPA for DOS and Windows upgrade or support options. If you have GPA for Windows,
you can move it as single user to Windows XP computer. If you have your reg key for
DOS only, you will need to stay with Windows 98. Great Plains Accounting migration
to Great Plains is available for retroactive version GP 7.5. If you are still on
GPA, likely that you are very sensitive to upgrade budget and it is probably OK for
you to stay with Great Plains Accounting. We recommend you to file change VAR form
to Alba Spectrum and have us support your potential issues - in most of the cases
GPA has only hard disk space size or hardware failures, otherwise it is pretty
solid, if you are the kind of person, who likes to work with DOS ERP application



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