#GPUGSummit | #INreno15 #GPUGSummit WHY IS THE SUPPORT DEBUGGING TOOL / GP POWER TOOLS SO AMAZING David Musgrave MVP Managing Director, Winthrop Development Consultants Béat Bucher MVP Business Analyst, Ultra Electronics Forensic Technology

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#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Managing Director of Winthrop Development Consultants  Microsoft Dynamics GP Most Valuable Professional (MVP)  Worked with Microsoft for 13 and a half years  Lives in Winthrop, a suburb in the city of Perth  Where is Perth, Western Australia? 3 DAVID MUSGRAVE

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 Business Analyst, Ultra Electronics Forensic Technology  Microsoft Dynamics GP Most Valued Professional (MVP)  Lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada  Born in Bercher, Switzerland  Where is Bercher (in the district of Gros-de-Vaud)? 6 BÉAT BUCHER

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#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Introductions  Overview of Support Debugging Tool / GP Power Tools  Demonstration  Q & A 9 AGENDA

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Support Debugging Tool (SDT) initially created in August 2006  Publically released in September 2008  Last release was Build 19 in September 2014 (Day before losing job)  Discontinued when David Musgrave left Microsoft in October 2014  Negotiations with Microsoft for exclusive rights finalized in March 2015  Renamed to Winthrop Development Consultants’ GP Power Tools (GPPT)  Release Build 20 for GP 2010, GP 2013 and GP 2015 in August 2015  Distributed and Supported worldwide by Mekorma 10 HISTORY

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15 GP POWER TOOLS MODES Standard Mode (User) Features  Manual Logging Mode  Dex.ini Settings (4 tabs)  Resource Information  Security Profiler  Security Information  Security Log *  Runtime Executer *  SQL Executer * .Net Executer *  Configuration Export/Import  Screenshot  Send Advanced Mode (Administrator) Features  Automatic Debugger Mode Setup  Dictionary Control  XML Table Export  XML Table Import  Runtime Execute Setup  SQL Execute Setup .Net Execute Setup *  Configuration Maintenance  Administrator Settings (4 tabs)  Administrator Password Setup *  Dex.ini Configuration  Database Validation *  Setup Backup and Restore *

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Installed on all workstations using installer (silent install available)  Data is now stored in SQL tables (more secure and simpler)  Still use a single shared location to store log files and exports  Shared location controlled by using Administrator settings  Security settings to allow all users to access Standard Mode  Security settings to allow administrators to access Advanced Mode  Set up and enable SQL Profile Tracing functionality 12 RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  The Support Debugging Tool (SDT) is unsupported and discontinued  Unsupported SDT builds for v8, v9 and v10 are available for download  GP Power Tools builds available for GP 2010, GP 2013 and GP 2015  Purchase annual subscription for special introductory price of US$365  A “dollar a day” for peace of mind, even get a day for free every 4 years  GP Power Tools is distributed and supported worldwide by Mekorma 13 GP POWER TOOLS AVAILABILITY

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15  Product contains features that can be used by – Customers: End Users, System and Database Administrators – Partners: Implementers, Consultants and Developers  We will highlight features new to GP Power Tools  Tweet using #GPPT #MSDYNGP #GPUGSummit  Clap, cheer, whistle, stomp your feet and answer “Yes it can!” 14 GP POWER TOOLS DEMONSTRATION

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GP Power Tools Portal Support Debugging Tool Portal (Retired) 17 PORTAL LINKS

#GPUGSummit | #INreno15 David Musgrave’s Winthrop Development Consultants Blog The Dynamics GP Geek blog (by Béat Bucher) Developing for Microsoft Dynamics GP Blog – retired (by David Musgrave & the Developer Support Team) or 18 LINKS

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