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If in your organization you are deploying FA module as one of the critical ones, we would like to share some experience maintaining it in large organizations.  Let’s review such procedures as mass change, retire, transfer and partial versions of transfer and retirement.  Plus, some hints on how to automate the procedures, designed for manual data modification.  We will be basing our recommendations on version 2010/11.0, however Fixed Assets module is probably the same with minor improvements down to version 7.5, 7.0, where you do not have home page, lists, and advanced navigation pane, which is present in 9.0, 10.0 and newer releases:

1. Mass Change, open it in Financial Transactions Fixed Assets info pane (for older versions Transactions -> Financials -> FA Mass Change).  This is the tool to update info for the Asset Group.  Asset Group should normally be created and updated every time before mass transactions, as if you added new assets since the last group build, the new ones are not included in the old group.  Mass change doesn’t create audit trail, use mass transfer if future auditing is important in your organization.  Mass transfer, however can only do part of the job, that could be done on mass change.  For example, you cannot reset Book, Class and Book/Class depreciation information, as well as user defined fields.  Both Change and Transfer should be a good tool, if you are reassembling moved quantities from the same asset under new Master Asset ID.  If the fields you need to update are not present in these forms, you can still mass update by using FA Import tool, just prepare text files for the assets to update.  Consider exporting the group into the text file, then update the fields in Excel and reimport it back

2. Partial Transfer and Retirement.  These are possible for the individual asset only.  Partial logic is not available in mass versions.  When you transfer or retire portion of the asset, new asset with the same id and incremented suffix is created for the moment and immediately turned into transferred or retired.  Transfer portioning could be based on percentage, quantity or cost.  If percentage, quantity or cost is entered, the system adjusts percentage if it is with discrepancy with quantity.  If quantity is in discrepancy with cost, the cost is used for resetting the quantity.  Partial retirement could be undone in Retire Undo (Transactions -> Fixed Assets -> Retire Undo).  In order to undo, original asset (with originally created suffix) should exist and be active and retire should be being done in the current fiscal year

3. How to do mass partial retire or transfer?  If you have to apply fractional retire or transfer for tons of thousands of assets manual update might be not practical.  We recommend you to use macro technique.  Record macro, where you are retiring just one partially (close all the forms, you do not use in the logic and be very laconic in recording).  Then open macros as text file in Excel, split each of its parts into columns on the first row, especially important to have separate columns for asset specific information: ID, Percentage, Cash Proceeds, Non-Cash Proceeds, Expenses of Sale, Cost, Quantity, retirement date, type (as it is participating in deciding if the gain is recognized or non-recognized).  Use Excel formulas and Series to produce the number of lines, coinciding with the number of assets to process.  Then save it back into the text file and try your macro against the test company to be sure that it does the job

4. Bonus topic.  Back out depreciation.  Elegant way to roll out incorrect depreciation, that was already posted or created and ready to be posted to General Ledger is this.  Open Financial Routines and pick Depreciate One Item, here backdate it and you will get the prompt “The target date you have entered is before the depreciation to date for this asset.  Should you continue, depreciation will be backed out…”.  Here the original depreciation which was probably already interfaced with GL will not be deleted – it will be reversed next time, when you do GL posting routine in FA

Source by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP system is a good fit for manufacturing, energy plants in downstate Illinois as well as mid-size and smaller businesses in agriculture, services, wholesale and retail (especially with integration to Microsoft RMS), non-profit organizations and virtually all the others potential Great Plains Dynamics customers in the state of Illinois.   We invite you to see GP presentation and business processes mapping.  Let’s take a look at GP implementation phases:

1.       ERP selection.  Here you must review many if not all major MRP packages to see which one fits your business and has the functionality to support your business growth and expansion if planned

2.       Business Processes Mapping.  When you decide to implement Dynamics GP, then you should have your GP business partner or consultant to make modules selection and map business processes for implementation

3.       Legacy accounting data conversion to Dynamics GP.  Here you need sort of compromise on deciding how much data to bring to GP.  The easiest and cheapest GP integration could give you just master records import: GL accounts, customers, vendors, employees and beginning GL balances.  We often here customer requirements to bring everything from legacy ERP to GP – this “everything” typically means Historical transactions: AR and AP invoices, GL historical transactions, etc.  We typically discourage the customer from such steps and rather recommend keeping old accounting system for just data lookup

4.       User training and switch to production.  User training is typically precise and very dependent on your GP system setup, so generic training, which you could get in the learning centers may not necessary be sufficient

Source by Andrew Karasev

Invalid Dynamic Disk: Before installing Window 7, I installed the original Windows XP professional on the machine, I found myself to be very smart doing this. Unfortunatly now that Window 7 is installed on this machine the disk is not accessible. Disk Manager says “Dynamic Disk Status Invalid”. Now I know mainly because I was using a WINDOWS 7 HOME EDITION, this does not support dynamic disc, so an Invalid Dyanmic Disk was shown in disk management. In fact, all the Home edition of Windows do not support dynamic disks such as XP Home, Vista Home, Win7 Home Basic and Premium Edition. The screen shot is shown below:
 

Unreadable Dynamic Disk: The drive is not accessible. The drive may have experienced hardware failure, corruption, or I/O errors. The disk’s copy of the system’s disc configuration database may be corrupted. An error icon appears on the Unreadable disk. Both dynamic and basic disks display the Unreadable status. Disks may display the Unreadable status while they are spinning up or when Array Manager is rescanning all of the disks on the system. In some cases, an Unreadable dynamic dischas failed and is not recoverable. For dynamic disks, the Unreadable status usually results from corruption or I/O errors on part of the harddisk, rather than failure of the entire harddisk as follows.
 

Repair Invalid and Unreadable Dyanmic Disk: 
There are two ways to solve this problems, first is to directly clear data and revert it to a basic disk, the second is to become it to a valid basic disk by using Dynamic Disk Converter, which can convert an invalid, unreadable dynamic to basic disk to fix it without losing data, even if the dynamic drive can not be accessed in Windows 7/Vista Home Basic Edition, and it’s secure and easy!
The step is as follows:
1. Run the converter, and select a Invalid or Unreadable Dynamic Disc that you want to repair.
2. Confirm that the selected disk which you wish to repair.
3. Executing…Report of the repair is complete.
4. After completing, you need restart the computer to take effect, and then the disk becomes valid and readable!

Dynamic Disk Converter Download: http://www.dynamic-disk.com/download.html

Source by magic-me

The started off as a small network of computers linked together in the most basic of ways. In today’s world, however, things have become a little bit more complicated. To deal with the billions of users, and trillions of webpages, the technology behind the internet has had to evolve exponentially with demand.

and more have all been revolutionized in the last decade, and all this has created a global network, a global community, and a global consumer environment.

The biggest, and most important, improvement to the internet in the past ten years is quite simply speed. As the old copper cables get ripped out and replaced with fiber optics, broadband speeds can increase dramatically, not to mention cheaper, faster broadband packages providing faster access to consumers.

This faster access radically changed the internet from a slow cumbersome beast, to an agile resource of information and shopping.

When the Internet began to speed up, things also began to speed up for hosting services. To keep up with the new demand, and technologies such as streaming video, hosting services had to look at several new solutions. No longer could they run a desktop computer as a server, they needed to high speed backups, load balancing, and later on, cloud servers.

The backing up of servers came along with raid technology, but backing up your data did not help you if your website suddenly found itself becoming popular. Load balancing came along not much later, this could be done in two major ways, and the first load balancing technique was to have two servers, one a clone of the other. Visitors would be evenly sent to the two servers to reduce load on each one. The second load balancing technique ran off one server, but instead used two or more high speed connections to the internet. The extra connections became active as the load on the server increased.

In more recent years cloud servers have come to the front of internet hosting. Cloud servers are the best way to deal with high traffic loads, and are capable of handling huge amounts of data. This has again changed how the internet works, by giving people the option to host huge files for download, without worrying about hosting charges.

A cloud server is generally a collection of standard servers which are able to share any resource between each other. Cloud Servers are naturally load balanced, easily incorporate backups, and can easily be scaled to fit the business needs of a company. Cloud Servers have vastly increased both the size and power of hosting services, much more than dedicated servers alone could provide. It is this computing power that has allowed companies such as Amazon, Google, and eBay to prosper. By using cloud servers these companies can meet the demand of millions of daily users, with quick page loading times, and hardly any technical glitches.

The fast paced progress of the internet has been helped along by these, and other, technological advances. Who knows how things will progress in the next decade!

Source by Ryan Jennings Smith

Have you been getting the blue screen boot?  This is what is known as the windows blue screen of death.  It is essentially a blue screen with white lettering that’s says “beginning of physical memory dump”.  After that your computer automatically reboots without permission.

The blue screen boot can occur when you “boot up” your system, run a specific application, or simply at random.  But the result is always the same.  A Windows blue screen and then the computer crashes.

So what exactly causes this problem?  Often times running too many programs at once can do it.  If your system is running past its hardware specifications it will often crash and reboot.

But when the problem happens consistently either when you start the system or are not running way too many programs at once, then it is related to errors in the Windows registry.

If your computer were a car, then the registry is the engine.  It is the central component of the system and all actions spring from commands sent by the registry.  The registry is a very complicated device which unfortunately is prone to corrupting and breaking down.

When your car breaks down you must bring it to a mechanic.  Most folks think that when their system does the same they must bring it to the computer technician.  You actually don’t have to.  In fact you can troubleshoot it by yourself the same way a technician would.

What you need to do is simply run a scan for registry errors and repair them.  For those who are getting the blue screen when you boot up, try starting your system in “safe mode”.  This is done by tapping the F8 key as soon as your CPU is starting up.  Once in safe mode, you can then scan your computer for errors.  This is the fastest and easiest way to cure blue screen boot problems.

Source by Jim Marshall

A Windows registry is an information tank that stores all information about operating system hardware and all other softwares residing in your PC. Working similar to heart in human body, it pumps out the information to be used as instructions while running any program. With passage of time, it gets cluttered and need a fix. Thanks to windows registry repair software that gets into action to avid the malfunctioning and crashes of PC.

This windows registry repair software scans the information and makes necessary changes analyzing, detailing and removing the useless information. Various functions that are carried to improve stability and performance of system are:

• Cleaning windows registry and fixing error (if any).
• Prevent crashes, reboots and lock-ups.
• Increase your computer stability and ability to perform

Well, a good news is that the windows registry repair software is available for absolute no cost, that is, it has now been the window registry repair freeware. Many websites and companies are providing windows registry repair free downloads. However, the registry repair software may be distinguished at each site.

Well, commonly recommended registry repair softwares may be lined up as:

• Tune-up Utility: it is considered to be the most complete software in the market with the benefits of defragging the registry.
• Registry Mechanic: a simple utility checker fixing most common of problems seeks to be more focused at its work.
• XP Repair Pro: it is advanced registry software that is quiet quick, smooth in its functioning and effective. Its benefit lies in its ability to provide great graphical user interface design.

However, a common benefit with all these software lies in the re-location of deleted information if the user feels uncomfortable. Hence, with this software user can enjoy the freedom to manage the data clutter free.

Source by Arvind

If you are looking for changing your ERP from legacy or small business accounting to Microsoft Dynamics GP, then you should get info on Dynamics GP software and how it fits to your proposed business processes in accounting, operations, shipping and receiving, sales, warehouse management, purchasing.  Dynamics GP has wide selection of modules, supported directly by Microsoft Business Solutions as well as add-ons from Dynamics GP ISV Partners.  In the case of third party Dynamics GP modules – licensing should be reviewed by Dynamics GP technology partner or ISV.  In this small publication we would like to give you highlights on Microsoft Dynamics GP core licensing:

1.       Business Ready model.  For new Dynamics GP customer you can only purchase Business Ready, which is in essence set of modules.  There are two sets: Business Essential and Advanced Management.  The first one would probably better fit to smaller organization, or company which is not involved in complex business processes and has traditional for small and mid-size business processes: GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets.  The second one should fit the rest of the spectrum: manufacturing, Project Accounting, Collection Management, Customer Vendor Consolidation.  Plus, some modules are available on the “a la carte” model for purchase: Payroll, HR, Integration Manager (if you need it for ongoing integrations, when initial data conversion period expired), Field Service to give you the idea

2.       Existing Dynamics GP customers.  For those of you who already have Dynamics GP Great Plains implemented in the past, in order to get new modules or additional user licenses, your organization must be current in annual enhancement program – you can obtain the information through your Dynamics GP VAR of record or if you are not sure who it is, you can call Microsoft directly or our office.  Assuming that you are current in enhancement program, and you historically was on module-based licensing – you can stay with the same model and just add new modules and concurrent users when needed.  Also, you may decide to switch to one of the two Dynamics GP Business Ready licensing models, described above

3.       Dynamics GP VAR selection.  You should consider several factors: local vs. nationwide support, your industry expertise, technology expertise.  If your business is unique and you do not see local Dynamics GP reseller to help you with unique settings, possible customization and industry specific integration – feel free to look for regional or even nationwide Dynamics GP technology partner support.  Also, consider scenario, when your local Dynamics GP consultant supports your Great Plains implementation project and he or she seeks for industry specific vertical implementation on Dynamics GP nationwide support market

Source by Andrew Karasev

Windows 7 is a technological marvel; it is fast despite all the eye-candy, and contains many new features. However, it does have its share of problems. One of Windows 7’s problems is that of occasional freezes.

This can happen at any point in time. It can happen when you’re surfing the net, listening to music or when you’re doing some work. When you have unsaved work and Windows 7 freezes at that time, it results in a big waste of time as the work has to be done again after you restart the computer. Provided it doesn’t freeze again.

In some cases, this can be due to driver incompatibilities. By making sure that you have the latest version of drivers for your system, you can pretty much eliminate this possibility. If the freezes occur again, it is likely due to the next reason, which is the most common cause of problems in Windows.

Windows 7 makes heavy use of a system-wide information repository called the registry. In fact, many other programs, in addition to Windows itself, store settings and other information inside the registry. There is no check to ensure that the information stored within is valid and correct, and problems commonly happen because of errors in the registry. Because the registry is such an integral part of Windows, problems in it can cause error messages in Windows or cause the system to freeze.

The way to resolve it is to fix all the errors in the registry by using a registry cleaner software. A good registry cleaner will scan the entire registry for errors and fix them. After getting rid of the registry errors, computer freezes will be a thing of the past. In addition, Windows will feel faster than before.

Source by Jason Webber

FairUse4WM DRM stripper is a hacker utility that has the ability to crack and strip DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection from music and songs files offered by PlaysForSure-commpatible online music stores, music download sites, music subscription sites and record labels that are using Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Media Player 11 encoding protected by Windows Media DRM (WMDRM) version 10 and WMDRM 11. Current, online music stores that using PlaysForSure DRM license protection include NapsterToGo, MSNMusic, Amazon Unbox, Urge, Wal-Mart, Liquid Audio and AOLMusicNow.

When you download and play the Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) protected with WMDRM, you’re told a license is required to play the selected content and Windows Media Player will launch WMP Digital Rights Management License Acquisition process to acquire valid license for the media from the DRM store servers. If no license can be found, you won’t be able to listen to the music song or the video.

FairUse4WM (Fair Use for Windows Media) uses a GUI version of drmdbg that supports individualization blackbox component (IBX) version .3930 and some WM11 versions and able to strips DRM headers from secure WMA files. FairUse4WM intends to enable fair-use rights to purchased media so that owners can freely copy to any devices or media. So import of KID/SID pairs is not allowed and, license expiration and rental detection is not supported. You won’t be able to unDRM any without them being licensed to you or without at least a file with active valid license.

FairUse4WM version 1.2 (new version that works around the new IBX version being pushed by Microsoft on new individualizationsfeatures) features DRMv1 support for files you ripped yourself with protection enabled, works with WM9 (individualized), includes a workaround for WM11 beta 2, subdirectory support by taking a directory as the command-line parameter, and WM10 and WM11 support.

To use FairUse4WM, download FairUse4WM. Just launch the FairUse4WM hack program to extract personally identifiable information (decryption keys) from the Media Player while playing the DRM protected media. Some WM installations have multiple ECC key-pairs where users need to do “Extract Keys” using multiple licensed files. Users may also need to individualize the system. With individualization the licenses information is stored in IndivBox.key. To individualize the system, download any demo drm video from ezdrm.com. Or go here to automatically individualization your system.

Update: FairUse4WM 1.3 Fix-2 with Mirakagi which supports Windows Media Player DRM up to version 11.0.6000.6324 in Windows XP and Vista has been released.

Source by dvdvideo

Strategic Workforce Planning is the process for ensuring that an organization has suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. The aim of this process is that a company should have enough human resource, with adequate skills and competencies, in the future to take care of its requirements.

Following are the five steps an organization should follow to implement an effective workforce planning program:

Step 1: Strategic Direction Setting

In this step, an organization should clearly define the reasons why it wants to undertake workforce planning. The skills and competencies of existing employees should be kept in mind as well as all the resources available to it and the course of action it will follow in the future. After considering all these factors a team of professionals should be set up which will assist in the workforce planning process.

Step 2: Calculate the difference between demand and supply

Workforce planners should gather relevant data and information about the future demand, for human resource, by the company and the projected supply at that time and task to be fulfilled by that workforce. This can be done by analyzing the planning documents of the organization, reviewing the financial budgeting accounts, and setting assumptions accordingly.

Step 3: Developing an action Plan

An action plan should be developed to fill the gaps identified in step 2. This plan could include identifying internal employees who could fill the gap, partnering with academic institutions for future recruitment, following an intern program to recruit, availing the services of external recruiting agencies, etc. Internal employees should be judged on their skills and competencies and the total number of annualized hours they have put in till date.

Step 4: Implementing the plan

Properly implementing the plan is as important a step as developing one. The top management plays a crucial role in this step. They must ensure that the plan is being implemented according to needs of the organization. They should ensure that all the future hiring and retention needs of an organization will be fulfilled with this plan.

Step 5: Evaluate and Revise the plan

The final step of this process involves evaluating the plan periodically to ensure that it is fulfilling all the requirements of the organization, and suggesting any change in the plan, if required. The plan should be compared with the benchmark laid down earlier, and if any discrepancies are found then necessary changes should be suggested. These changes should be communicated to all the persons who are in any way involved with the workforce planning process.

A properly planned, implemented and evaluated workforce planning process would go a long way in ensuring a stable and profitable future of an organization.

Source by Pooja Rai