Released on: September 2, 2008, 2:22 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum LLC

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: If you have solid Great Plains VAR support from your local
partner or certified consultant, then this routine should be entrusted to their
hands and you should not worry about it. However if you are without support,
typically when you are using one of historical Great Plains versions: 7.5, 7.0, 6.0,
5.5, 5.0 or even GP 8.0

Press Release Body: If you have solid Great Plains VAR support from your local
partner or certified consultant, then this routine should be entrusted to their
hands and you should not worry about it. However if you are without support,
typically when you are using one of historical Great Plains versions: 7.5, 7.0, 6.0,
5.5, 5.0 or even GP 8.0 and you are not sure who is your current Great Plains
Partner, then you need to local Microsoft Dynamics GP consultant for helping you in
Great Plains migration from one server to another. Let’s consider migration
scenarios:

1. Great Plains on MS SQL Server 2000 (or SQL Server 2005). In the case of being on
MS SQL 2000, you need first to understand, that you should move it to exact blend of
SQL Server. Especially it is important if you are on version 7.5 or earlier – these
versions were sensitive to SQL license. This means that if you are using MSDE, you
can’t redeploy Great Plains on new server, where you load MS SQL 2000 Standard, for
example. If you have SQL DBA in staff – you can ask her or him to simply transfer
all the databases, users and security to new server. If you don’t have DBA, then
you should have your GP consultant to use GP users capture and transfer scripts,
available from Microsoft Business Solutions Partner or Customer Source (if you are
not current with GP annual enhancement program, likely that your customer source
expired too)

2. Great Plains on Ctree. This version is easily transferrable to new server,
assuming that you are on GP 7.5 or 7.0. You should install Ctree default GP on the
new server and then copy over files from your old server. You will need help with
Location Translation, when you first launch Great Plains. You can call us to get
this help

3. Great Plains on Pervasive SQL. You should have Pervasive SQL CD, and you install
Pervasive server first on the server. If you plan to use GP on Pervasive as Single
User Workstation, you do not need to install Pervasive SQL Server there. Then
simply repeat steps described in #2

4. Great Plains Standard on MSDE. You follow the same recommendations as in #1,
however we recommend you to use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 client tools – SQL
Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. You can probably do the work with DOS based
tools available for MSDE instead, however it is more difficult


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