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• Dynamics ERP and SQL Server Maintenance
• Dynamics SL 2011 R2 Enhancements

Dynamics SL Client Event Was A Great Success!

• Debra Edlund Lopez, a Partner Account Manager from Microsoft, kicked off the day and talked about what's on the horizon for Dynamics SL as well as the release of Windows 8, which looks much, much different from Windows 7. It has the start-bar-and-icon "Desktop" look that Windows users are familiar with, but it also has a new, touchscreen-optimized interface called 'Metro,' which looks more like the Windows Phone operating system. We can expect Windows 8 to be launched sometime in October 2012.
   
• PowerObjects, the leading Microsoft Dynamics CRM experts, sponsored the lunch and showed us how Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics ERP products work seamlessly together while sharing some great examples of how both Boyer and PowerObjects have worked together to help clients take advantage of these great tools. The demand for Dynamics CRM continues to grow and we are fortunate to have one of the country's leading CRM providers located right in our own backyard in downtown Minneapolis.
   
• As with every event, we focused on a variety of topics to appeal to all attendees including the Top 10 Tips for Dynamics SL 2011, how to best create pivot tables and Excel refreshable reports against the live Dynamics SL database, how and when to use Quick Query, as well as a great overview of theproduct roadmap for Dynamics SL. We also covered the new Management Reporter financial reporting tool and how you can make the switch quickly and easily from FRx.
   
• The event this year featured more of our talented staff as presenters including Colleen McCoshen, Dynamics SL Support Manager; Timothy Jones, Technical Services Director; Paul James, a new Boyer Dynamics SL/ERP Consultant; Jon Augdahl, Dynamics SL Practice Manager; and Ron Pederson, Dynamics GP Practice Manager (who presented Management Reporter due to his additional experience with FRx replacements). We thank them for their efforts.

With over 60 attendees on hand, everyone had time to network, learn and share best practices. If you weren't able to attend but would like to learn more, contact us for more information.

We look forward to seeing you at our Year-End Client Event in December and thank you again to those who attended and for your loyal business.

Top Benefits of Management Reporter

Microsoft has replaced FRx with a new tool called "Management Reporter" which is a real-time financial reporting application designed to empower users to quickly and easily create, generate, secure, and publish financial statements, such as Profit and Loss (P&L) statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports. This financial report writer looks just like FRx but has a more modern user interface, allows for "undo" with rows, columns and trees, and stores its data in SQL Server rather than in Access.   

If you own FRx, you can still use it but you will no longer be able to license additional FRx components or additional users.Several of our customers have opted to make the migration to Management Reporter from FRx so we'd thought we'd share some top benefits to migrating to this new tool:
 

• Undo button
• Column page breaks
• Ability to add images to your reports (e.g. logos, graphs, etc.)
• Reports Viewer - Comes with a Report Server that allows you to publish your reports to a web server and all users can view, print and Export to Excel the reports they are used to getting in paper format.
• There is enhanced stability because the underlying database is SQL Server instead of Access.
• Reports Library - ability to organize your published reports by type and set security for each report.
• A migration tool is available to move FRx reports to Management Reporter reports. This can be tricky.
• Reports can be grouped for generation of multiple reports at once.

Interested in learning more about Management Reporter? Check out this webinar, Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Management Reporter 101 for Microsoft Dynamics SL to get all the details or contact us for more information. 

2012 Year-End Updates for SL 7.0 Customers

As we mentioned in our last issue, Microsoft will now be providing a 2012 Year-End Update to all U.S. Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0 Customers who are on SL 7 SP3 or SL 7 SP4. Microsoft will also provide U.S. tax table updates in December for the 2013 Payroll reporting year for SL 7 (SP3 and SP4). Following these releases, no additional code update will be released for Microsoft Dynamics SL 7, due to end of Mainstream Support in the Support Lifecycle for Microsoft Dynamics SL 7. Technical support for Microsoft Dynamics SL 7 will continue to be provided through the Extended Support phase which will end on 10/10/2017.

If you are currently using Microsoft Dynamics SL 7.0, you must upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 by the end of this year to receive any further regulatory and or code updates following the December Tax Updates.