2025 year in review
A brief review of my 2025 and what is next for 2026.
Personal
Time budgets
A post about setting annual targets or budgets for hours worked, how I broke down the targets and analyze the data in PowerBI throughout the year.
Personal
Power of Attorney: lessons learned
Lessons learned being a power of attorney for a US relative (as a Canadian citizen). Fun with banks, investment firms and Apostilles!
Canadian Payroll
CRA T619 change for 2025
A post about the Canada Revenue Agency T619 XML schema changes, examples of the T619 XML format for 3 scenarios, and some guidance for #MSDYNGP clients using Canadian Payroll.
Personal
2024 year in review
My annual year-in-review post, looking at 2024 and what might be in store for 2025.
News
Dynamics GP End of Life announcement
This is a post about the end of life announcement for Dynamics GP on Sept 25, 2024, and what it means for customers, timelines and recommendations for next steps.
Personal
MVP Renewal for 2024/2025
A long overdue post about my MVP renewal for 2024-2025 and a catch-up on why my blog has been so quiet since March.
Personal
Planes, Trains & Automobiles!
A post about my 3-week trip from Redmond, Washington for MVP Summit, to California, to Las Vegas for the Microsoft Fabric conference.
Canadian Payroll
Decimal Places for HR Benefits
A #TipTuesday post about how to change the number of decimal places for HR benefits in Dynamics GP.
Power BI & Fabric
New MS Learn AI Skills Challenge
A new Microsoft Learn challenge started today, which can result in a free exam voucher if you complete it.
Dynamics GP
Restoring a copy of a GP company reminder
This post is a reminder to Microsoft Dynamics GP admins who may be creating a test company or copy of a company for other reasons, that the SY00100 table may need updating before logging into GP.
Miscellaneous
Lessons learned from not trusting my gut
An off-topic post about “life lessons”, and learning from your mistakes.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 12
Module 13, getting started with Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 11
Module 9, getting started with data science in Microsoft Fabric.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 10
Module 8, getting started with Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 9
Ingesting data with Spark and Microsoft Fabric notebooks.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 8
Module 11, organizing a Fabric lakehouse using medallion architecture design.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 7
Module 10, administering Microsoft Fabric.
Power BI & Fabric
MS Learn Fabric Analytics Engineer Challenge Part 6
Getting started with data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric.