Great Plains Partner Los Angeles, Chicago Newsflash: GP Payroll Tax update service

Microsoft Dynamics GP US Payroll module calculates2.       How to update Payroll tables if you are
Federal, State and Local taxes and as you canon Ctree or Pervasive SQL.  This may seem as grim
imagine taxes change on the regular basis, likely everyproblem, however to Great Plains Technical consultant
year you see tax formula changes — Microsoftand SQL programmer it is not such a big deal.  The
Business Solutions, as well as earlier Great Plainshint here is this — bring with you your laptop,
Software has tax update download, which you can dowhere you have Dynamics GP 10.0 or 9.0 installed with
either from Partner Sourceif you are Dynamics GPUPR payroll tax tables populated with newer Payroll
Reseller, or from Customer Source, if you are endtax update.  In our legacy Great Plains environment,
customer.  In this small publication we will try to giveinstall Pervasive SQL Server or Client driver
your technical highlights on tax updates, especially(depending on where you are linking from —
when you are on older Great Plains versions: 8.0, 7.5,server or client, plus also review if you have to
7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0.  Payroll tax update might look likegenerate DDF files — or data definition files), or
minor issue for somebody, however if you are midsizeCtree driver (if you are on Ctree).  In Microsoft
organization on old Great Plains Dynamics orAccess create new database, instead of creating
eEnterprise version, you don’t want to mailnew physical tables, create linked tables and switch to
incorrect W-2 form to your employees andODBC link.  Select all the tables (or just UPR tables if
contractorsyou are interested in Payroll only).  If you are
 comfortable with Microsoft SQL Server Linked Server
1.       Payroll Tax Update process.  If youconstruction, please connect now your Microsoft SQL
download tax update from MBS Source, you will seeServer 2000 or 2005 to Pervasive SQL or Microsoft
that it populates UPR41300 and related tables inAccess ODBC data source to begin Payroll Tax
Dynamics database.  These tables have similarupdate roll out to your Pervasive SQL or Ctree tables
structure for older Great Plains versions, and if you are 
Great Plains consultant, you could simply roll down3.       Great Plains Accounting for DOS and
updates from Great Plains Dynamics GP 10.0Windows Support.  Here we recommend you to
Dynamics tax tables to linked server, where you havemigrate from Novell or Windows NT 4.0 Server to
older version of Great Plains installedWindows 2003 Server and change DB platform to
 Pervasive SQL 2000, preferably Service Pack 3.