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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook Over 100 powerful and effective recipes to help you solve real-world Dynamics GP problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786463401
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ian Grieve Ian Grieve
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Mark Polino Mark Polino
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Personalizing Dynamics GP 2. Organizing Dynamics GP FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Dynamics GP 4. Leveraging New and Updated Features in Dynamics GP 5. Exposing Hidden Features in Dynamics GP 6. Improving Dynamics GP with Hacks 7. Preventing Errors in Dynamics GP 8. Harnessing the Power of SmartLists 9. SmartList Designer 10. Connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office 2016 11. Maintaining Dynamics GP 12. Extending Dynamics GP Professional Services Tools Library 13. Modern Business Intelligence for Dynamics GP Index

Reducing licensing needs by preventing multiple company logins


Dynamics GP is licensed on a concurrent user basis; a company might have 50 users, but only ten at a time can log in. With multiple companies in Dynamics GP, users have a tendency to log in to more than one company at a time to make switching between companies faster. However, each company login uses up a concurrent license.

There is no built in functionality to prevent users from logging in multiple times, so in this recipe we have a hack designed to prevent users from logging in to multiple companies at once. One point to note is that this hack will only work with the Dynamics GP desktop client; it will not work with the web client.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to prevent users from logging in to multiple Dynamics GP companies simultaneously:

  1. Open Internet Explorer and navigate to http://azrcrv.co.uk/zdBps.

  2. Download and save the Prevent User Logging In To Multiple Companies.zip file to your desktop.

  3. Right-click on the downloaded...

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