Your SQL Server has not been named. Please contact your System Administrator

Your SQL Server has not been named. Please contact your System Administrator

You receive the above error message when signing into GP Utilities.

The below post helped me. Hope it helps you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/852728

Forecaster - Input Set Lock

To remove the input set lock, follow these steps.

Before you clear the lock, verify that no other users are logged on to the system. Otherwise, the user who is modifying the input set will lose their changes. To check for other users who are logged on, click View, and then click Current Users List.

1. Click Tools, and then click Remove Input Lock.
2. Click to select the input set that is locked, and then click Clear Lock.

Voila!

GP Budget Import Error

Trying to import budget from excel to GP.

SCENARIO:
Trying to import budget from excel to GP although you have exported the sample from GP and used that as your basis and put your figures in the spreadsheet generated by GP. Then you proceed to import and get an error.

ERROR:
"The number of periods for the budget does not match the number of columns in Excel. Import will not be able to complete."

RESOLUTION:
Change column headers from date type to text by putting apostrophe (') in front the date fields.

Voila!

Forecaster Data Transfer Utility

Ok so after looking and looking and looking I've finally found the forecaster data transfer tool/utility.

You need to download it from customersource.

Use the link below:

https://mbs.microsoft.com/Cms/Templates/document/General.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7bC706AC0F-0F5E-402A-86C1-38A7800C0B26%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fcustomersource%2fdownloads%2fservicepacks%2fFCDataTool%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=Guest

Hope this helps!

Creating a New Budget Year in Forecaster

Dynamics GP Land: Breaking It Down- New Budgets in Forecaster: I have to admit, there are a few questions that make me cringe.  They include-- Why does the reports.dic have to be rebuilt so often? Do c...

special thanks to Christina Phillips.

Setting up Forecaster and adding connections on end user machines

I know i have to do this soon, I stumbled across this blogg by Christina Pillips and it will save me the drama next week. See link below.

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VirtualBox – Cannot Register the Hard Drive Because a Hard Drive with UUID Already Exists

Ok so you're trying to create another virtual machine using an existing hard disk file and you get the below error... What do you do? Follow the below guaranteed steps.





Failed to open the hard disk <FilePath>.
Cannot register the hard disk <FilePath><GUID> becuase a hard disk <DifferentFilePath> with UUID <GUID> already exists.

1. Open the Command Prompt
2. Change the directory to where VirtualBox is installed (Default: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox) (see below on how to change the command prompt directory to another location)
3. Type the following VBOXMANAGE.EXE internalcommands sethduuid <PathOfNewVHD>

Note that internalcommands and sethduuid need to be lowercase.
Below is the output of me changing the ID of the VHD located at C:\Users\bschacht\VirtualBox VMs\Windows XP (VPN) Copy.vhd





TO CHANGE THE COMMAND PROMPT DIRECTORY DEFAULT PATH:

Type "cd\program files\" etc and then press enter (in the command prompt)

i.e. cd\path and then press enter.