The Palm Pre User Guide has been posted online for those who just can’t wait for the official release on June 6, 2009.
Consulting and Upgrades
Sage 100 and Sage 100cloud news and technical articles of note.
by Wayne Schulz
The Palm Pre User Guide has been posted online for those who just can’t wait for the official release on June 6, 2009.
by Wayne Schulz
It seems like every day there’s a new USB hub masquerading as something else. Just the other day we had the heart shaped chocolate cake 4 Port USB hub. Today it’s the transformer type toy that folds into make a mini Windows XP computer that contains a 4-Port USB Hub. The site offering this gizmo appears to be in Japanese and the most I can make out is that it seems this is destined for a September 2009 release and will operate on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Mac.
Transformer USB via FF
by Wayne Schulz
Over the last week New Jersey Sage MAS 90 and SAP Business One consultant Mark Chinsky forwarded a cool (free) utility that I’d like to share.
Mark’s original message stated that he uses FileMon for Windows by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to see files that are being used by MAS 200. This real time utility is a powerful diagnostic tools for tracking down any number of issues including – hung files, system slowdowns, etc.
Using the program you can easily view precisely when each and ever file is opened, read, written or deleted.
Filters are available to keep the information reporting to a minimum and ensure you only see details that are relevant to your situation.
Former Sage Technical Support Wizard (that wasn’t his official title) Alnoor Cassim chimes in with the inside view of what he has used this handy utility for:
Right on! All the SysInternals tools from Mark Russinovich (all now part
of MS Technet) have been life savers when troubleshooting MAS 90/200.
I’m a major net promoter of these tools. I’d like to share a few ways
it’s helped me.
* Used Filemon to find ACCESS DENIED errors upon startup of MAS when the
Launcher was loading -> User didn’t have permission to rename some files
on their local machine upon startup
* Used Regmon to find ACCESS DENIED errors -> Led to positive proof of a
user registry permission problem for which IT guy of client insisted was
a MAS problem.
* Used Regmon to find ACCESS DENIED errors -> Led to discovery of a COM
failure bug in the MAS 4.0x Launcher, which was requiring Write access
to protected areas of the registry.
* Used psKill to kill orphaned pvxwin32.exe tasks on the MAS 200 server
that Task Manager could not terminate and so server didn’t have to be
rebooted
* Used Process Monitor to find bug in FAS 2008 uninstaller on an EES
implementation, that prevented FAS 2009 from being installed.
Today, Process Monitor is the tool that replaces Filemon and Regmon and
has a better UI.
I’ll stop there but I highly recommend these tools for the tech person
in the MAS consultant’s organization and of course to the clients’ IT
staff.
by Wayne Schulz
We just received this brief (one minute) video from Scanco that gives a broad overview of their Automation Series (lots of people pointing scanners but not a lot of detail on how it works).
One thing that’s mentioned in the video is that use of expensive Sage MAS 90 or 200 licenses is not required so they’re probably using some type of Web Server similar to how Hightower operates their Remote Timekeeper. If I’m wrong about the technology I’m sure someone from Scanco will set me straight and I’ll update the post.
Pricing on this per the mailing is “about $5,000”. For more information visit Scanco Automation Series.
by Wayne Schulz
Need Time and Billing for your Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200? The most viable solution is from a company called Hightower who have been marketing their Time and Billing Professional and TimeKeeper software for as long as I can remember.
They ran a limited time promotion for users who purchased at Insights 2009. Looks like this has been extended through June 30.
– 25% off new enhancement purchases
– Buy Time and Billing and get TimeKeeper 50% off
– Buy TimeKeeper and get 20 device licenses free (much cheaper than MAS licenses)
– Premier Plan $995 (normally $1,200) includes new and upgrades from value plans.
Interested? Sit with your Sage Business Partner and tell them Wayne Schulz say’s call Patti Benitez at Hightower who is the representative that can set this all up.