Exploit Professional Services Tools Library to Consolidate and Change Critical Data

Microsoft Professional Services Tools Library for Dynamics SL and Dynamics GP provide several tools and utilities to consolidate and change critical data throughout the system, without rekeying data in multiple places.

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SQL Server Reporting Services Database Setup Issue

If you install the Reporting Services after the SQL Server is already installed, you may get the following error message when you attempt to setup the database in Reporting Services Configuration Manager.

The database version (C.0.8.40) does not match your reporting services installation. You must upgrade your reporting services database

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Verifying eConnect Version When Developing eConnect Integration

When developing eConnect integration it is important to match the development environment eConnect version with the production environment.

To check the eConnect version, go to Start → Programs → Microsoft Dynamics → eConnect → eConnect Release Information.

eConnect Release Information executes the following stored procedure in the background to retrieve the eConnect business objects (stored procedures) version:

EXEC DYNAMICS..taeConnectVersionInfoDYNAMICS

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Compacting a VPC Image

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Executing SQL Server scripts using Dynamics SL DBUpdate

Dynamics SL has a utility called DBUpdate (Database Update). Generally this utility is used to initialize some system level important tables e.g. rptcontrol, messages, pvrec, etc. The initialization of these tables is one of the post-installation steps.

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