Winthrop Development Consultants

Winthrop Development Consultants David Musgrave is Managing Director of his own development and consulting business, Winthrop Development Consultants.

David Musgrave is Managing Director of his own development and consulting business. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Winthrop Development Consultants offers a range of Microsoft Dynamics GP add-on products as well as development, consulting and training services to the ISVs, partners and customers of the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. David is known for his many products including GP Power Too

ls (previously the Support Debugging Tool), Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (previously Menus for Visual Studio Tools) and the Batch Posting Service Toolkit. He was also the original author of Named Printers, Omni Tools, Omni Price, Advanced Security, Field Level Security, Business Activity Statement (for Australian GST), and SnapShot. He has also made many contributions to the code of Microsoft Dynamics GP. David has presented many popular sessions at customer and partner conferences and delivered training around the world. He is active in the Microsoft Dynamics GP community and has contributed to the partner, community and user group forums as well as his Developing for Dynamics GP and Winthrop Development Consultants blogs. He has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP, a GPUG All Star and a Community Summit Legend. Outside of work David enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, DJing for parties, robotics, technology and gadgets (not necessarily in that order).

07/08/2026

Our next Knights of GP rally is almost here! 🏍️

Join us Thursday, August 13 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM MDT as we explore Modernizing Dynamics GP with AI & Automation.

We're glad to have two guests joining the conversation:

Chris Dew, Director of Product Management at eOne
Paige Horne, Senior Customer Success Manager at Njevity

They'll share how GP customers are putting AI and automation to work today, with practical takeaways you can bring back to your own team.

This rally is free and open to the whole community. Registe0r here: https://zurl.co/puOzS

23/07/2026

Microsoft Dynamics GP running slowly after upgrading to SQL Server 2025? Learn why SQL Authentication causes performance issues, how PBKDF2 password verification affects GP, and the recommended Trace Flag solution.

  SQL Server 2025 Performance Issues with Microsoft Dynamics GPThis is repost of an article I wrote for the Knights of G...
14/07/2026

SQL Server 2025 Performance Issues with Microsoft Dynamics GP

This is repost of an article I wrote for the Knights of GP Blog. It explains the performance issues with using Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with Microsoft Dynamics GP and how to resolve them. Here is the link to the original article on the Knights of GP site: SQL Server 2025 Performance Issues with Microsoft Dynamics GP...

This is repost of an article I wrote for the Knights of GP Blog. It explains the performance issues with using Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with Microsoft Dynamics GP and how to resolve them. Here is …

  Community Learners Event: No Code Customization, adding fields without Modifier and what’s new with GP Power ToolsIt's...
06/07/2026

Community Learners Event: No Code Customization, adding fields without Modifier and what’s new with GP Power Tools

It's not too late to join the next Community Learners Event and learn about what's new in GP Power Tools. Tuesday, 7th Jul 2026 at 10:30 AM (US EDT) Using real-life examples, this session will demonstrate how GP Power Tools can enhance your Microsoft Dynamics GP investment. Discover how it addresses your pain points and makes the "impossible" possible....

It’s not too late to join the next Community Learners Event and learn about what’s new in GP Power Tools. Tuesday, 7th Jul 2026 at 10:30 AM (US EDT) Using real-life examples, this sessi…

  Changing Address IDs for Customers and VendorsIf you've ever needed to change an existing Customer ID or Vendor ID you...
30/06/2026

Changing Address IDs for Customers and Vendors

If you've ever needed to change an existing Customer ID or Vendor ID you would have found that there are tools available, but if you need to change the Address ID values for addresses associated with Customers and Vendors, you would you would be in for an arduous, manual, time consuming task as there are no tools available. This article provides free sample projects that add these tools to…...

If you’ve ever needed to change an existing Customer ID or Vendor ID you would have found that there are tools available, but if you need to change the Address ID values for addresses associa…

  Identifying Silver with Lego Spike PrimeIn a number of my articles I have mentioned that you must enable "More Sensors...
29/06/2026

Identifying Silver with Lego Spike Prime

In a number of my articles I have mentioned that you must enable "More Sensors" and use the Raw Red value to differentiate between white and silver. This is because the generic Reflected Light reading does not provide values that can safely tell the difference between white and silver. This article explains how to enable "More Sensors" in the Spike software....

In a number of my articles I have mentioned that you must enable “More Sensors” and use the Raw Red value to differentiate between white and silver. This is because the generic Reflecte…

New Look to the Winthrop Development Consultants BlogWelcome to the new look Winthrop Development Consultants Blog. Toda...
22/06/2026

New Look to the Winthrop Development Consultants Blog

Welcome to the new look Winthrop Development Consultants Blog. Today, we have updated and customized the blog's theme which changes the look and feel of the site. All the content is still the same and waiting to help you learn more about Microsoft Dynamics GP, Winthrop's product range, Robotics and lots more....

Welcome to the new look Winthrop Development Consultants Blog. Today, we have updated and customized the blog’s theme which changes the look and feel of the site. All the content is still the…

Mathematics: Is the taught Order of Operations wrong?There are a number of Maths puzzles doing the rounds on social medi...
21/06/2026

Mathematics: Is the taught Order of Operations wrong?

There are a number of Maths puzzles doing the rounds on social media and many are based on the following theme: X ÷ Y(A ± B) The current one on Facebook is 16 ÷ 4(2+2) with people arguing over whether the answer is 16 or 1. I am writing this article because the "strict and literal use" of the PEMDAS…...

There are a number of Maths puzzles doing the rounds on social media and many are based on the following theme: X ÷ Y(A ± B) The current one on Facebook is 16 ÷ 4(2+2) with people arguing over whet…

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