RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-23 Thread Tom Miller
8 users logged in during the day.   Todd From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:26 AMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Any one using Great Plains? I passed this along to a former colleague. He’s got GP10 in a virtual environment and he has agreed

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-23 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
, April 23, 2009 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any one using Great Plains? I passed this along to a former colleague. He's got GP10 in a virtual environment and he has agreed to test it out. I suggested he sign up for this list and post his results here himself, but if not,

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-23 Thread John Aldrich
I passed this along to a former colleague. He's got GP10 in a virtual environment and he has agreed to test it out. I suggested he sign up for this list and post his results here himself, but if not, I'll pass along anything he sends me. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil.

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Gonzalez
Tom, the way we have it our facility is: the app is on a stand-alone server. The clients are running locally and the DB is on a SQL 2005. As for TS environment, we contemplated, but we never went that route since we couldn't get a definite answer from our vendor if it was supported or not. Sorry

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Miller
No perf counters specifically yet - just CPU and RAM. New 2008 TS Farm. Issue happens on TS server and workstations with the client installed. Working on trace now and will get to sysinternals tools tomorrow. Running the GP application on the SQL server runs at a speed I'd expect (no pausing to lo

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
Forwarded to my former CFO who now sells GP. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any one using Great Plains? Hi Everyone, We are moving to MS Dynamics Great Plains, version

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
I used to support the hardware at another company where I used to work and I noticed the same thing. I would suggest that you make sure you have at least 100 Mbit Ethernet, if not Gigabit. It may or may not help, but it sure isn't going to hurt! Also, load up the server with as much RAM as you can

RE: Any one using Great Plains?

2009-04-22 Thread Scott Kaufman at HQ
I don't have any experience with Great Plains...but... What perf counters are you looking at? Is this a new TS farm, or an existing one? Is this a .NET app? Got a network trace? What happens if you login to the console & run the application? Have you used sysinternals tools to see if the app