Take the company offline for maintenance
As of Dynamics GP 2013 R2, it is possible to easily take a company offline for maintenance; this will prevent users from logging in and potentially interfering with a maintenance task. A message can be configured to be for sent to users if they try to access the offline company.
How to do it...
To disable a database, follow these steps:
- Open Take Company Offline for Maintenance under Utilities on the Administration area page.
- Select the company to be taken offline in the Online Companies list and click the Insert button.
- To set a custom message, click the Custom radio button and enter the message in the text field below:
- Click OK.
- If there are users logged in you will be prompted to decide if a message should be sent to them. Click Yes to send a message.
- In the list of users, unmark those who should not receive the message.
- In the Send message as section, select if the message should be sent as a Notification Message or Task with Reminder.
- Enter the message...
