My buddy Doug Pitcher at Rose Business Solutions has published one of the most hilarious anecdotes I have read in recent months. The subject: the all too famous David Musgrave. If you are reading this article and you are asking "Who is David Musgrave?", chances are you got hit by a bus in the last 5 minutes and can't remember anything or you are way too new to the GP…

Sigh...SP 3 and Payroll Tax Update 4 for Versions 9 and 10 are brutal on the reports dictionaries. We go the extra mile to re-create the dictionary files for custom reports.

1. Use Customization Maintenance to create a reports package for each unique product.
2. Delete ALL copies of any custom dictionary from the local computer and the shared directory (having…

Can I come up for air yet? Talk about a busy month. January is always crazy but for some reason it seems this past month has been extra intense. Now that Year end closes are coming less frequent and 1099's, W-2's etc. should be about done maybe I'll be able to call in sick a time or two and head up to The Big.

One common issue I've seen rear it's ugly head is not being able to print reports after applying a SP or Year End update. GP will either crash before the report is done or will error out and not give you a report. Is it me or has SP's and Year End…

Got the below email from Terry Heley (MBS payroll lead) in conjunction with the new payroll update coming out today. Sounds like a major pain for any SP updates but does sound like job security for Dynamics support people.

Basically, Make sure you update Reports.dic before you do anything. I'd probably export out all reports etc using customization maintenance. Then update the reports using Utilities (I'd probably say a prayer, cross your fingers, commence any other helpful acts of meditation and serenity etc.)

Haven't needed to do this for a SP yet but my guess is creating a new reports.dic file and importing in your old reports after the SP update would be an easier way to update the reports after a SP.

Notice no error messages will be given if you don't do this step other than some probably errors when you run the report. Nice one MBS.

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Doug Pitcher on the Rose Business Solutions Blog had me laughing with his post The famous David Musgrave.

He has coined the term "Musgravion" to mean followers of my opinions and ways.

This came about primarily because of my dislike (read as hate) of shared customisation dictionaries (reports.dic, forms.dic etc) and my comment on his Unable to Open Customizations Dictionary post. I…