Will Microsoft Great Plains 7.5 run on Windows 7?

No,it is not compatible with Windows 7
www.kianoff.com/products/greatplains/System%20Requirements.pdf

Not even version 8 is compatible ...
http://www.compresourcesinc.com/Support/8sysreq.htm

Microsoft stopped supporting GP 7.5 in January of 2007: http://victoriayudin.com/2008/10/08/when-does-my-gp-products-support-end/.  At the time, neither Vista nor Windows 7 were generally available, so neither was supported nor even tested for compatibility.  

Hi,

Sorry, Victoria snuck in there before I posted!  I only disagree with the *first two* posts.

I would never argue with Victoria!  ;-)

But you can still try my recommendations and see if they work.

Thanks,

Steve Endow
Dynamics GP Certified Trainer
Dynamics GP Certified Professional

Steve, it's all good.  You make some very good points, I would be curious to see if GP 7.5 will actually install on Windows 7...

I'm further now then I was before.  Thanks!

GP is loaded and running, but I get the error message, "Dictionary "....reports.dic" needs to be upgraded.  Use Dynamics Utilities to update your modified forms and reports"

Can you tell me how I run Dynamics Utilities?

When I click 'OK' Dynamics seems to run fine.

Thanks,

Steve

When I run Dynamics under a new user--still administration--I get the above error, but when I click 'OK' it says 'data dictionary not found' and closes Dynamics.

When I run under the login I used to install Dynamics, I get the 'dictionary needs upgraded' error, but Dynamics seems to run fine.

Thanks for all your help,

Steve

Since this has gone beyond a simple 'yes/no' answer, I'm going to raise the point value.

Steve

Hi Steve,

Assuming you are installing GP on a new workstation, here's a quick thing to try:

1) Zip the entire GP application directory on the new workstation, to serve as a backup

2) Copy all files from the Dynamics application directory from another computer where GP is working properly, and paste those files on your new workstation.

3) Open the Dynamics.set file and change the path for all of the dictionary so that it matches the proper path on the new workstation.  i.e.  ":C:GP75/Dynamics.dic" (it's a weird path syntax)

You can eventually be more selective about copying the files to try and resolve the issue, but this is a blunt and quick way to try it.

Thanks,

Steve Endow
Dynamics GP Certified Trainer
Dynamics GP Certified Professional

Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Microsoft Great Plains)
System requirements for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0:

http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/en/us/using/gp-system-requirements.aspx


Weather you can actually 'make' it work or no on a Windows 7 Workstation , I do not know....
Microsoft does not mention Windows 7 nor it it lists it under any compatibility sheet, so assume it is not compatible.
But,you can always 'try' ....no harm in trying....

It's running on Windows 7.

Following these directions plus changing the paths in the .dic file got it working.  We'll be doing careful testing to make sure, but it looks good now.

Thanks for all the help.  I really appreciate it.

Steve

When I accepted the solution, I said 'changing the paths in the .dic file"  That should have been the Dynamics.set file.  Wouldn't want to confuse anyone who finds this later.

Steve