Customers have expressed excitement over the many new features that this upgrade will provide easier and greater productivity:

• Document Sharing uses SharePoint sites to store and manage records, increasing communication between teams for customer, vendor and project information.

• Sortable Grids increase usability and is available throughout the product where grid views are provided.

• Quick Send functionality has been expanded beyond Invoices and Purchase Orders to include AR Statement, Order Manager Order Confirmation, Manual Order Confirmations, Shipping Notices and PR Direct Deposit Slips.

• Project Flex Time is an optional new interface that allows custom screen setups to view time entered beyond the standard 7 day period. Additionally employee assignments can be viewed at the subtask level.

• Project Connector 2007 provides tighter integration with Microsoft Office Project and provides deeper budgeting capabilities and resource assignments.

The Dynamics SL 7.0 Feature Pack 1, now in the Beta 2 test process, is expected to be available by the end of this calendar year.

To keep up-to-date with the latest information on FP1, including the readiness web seminars, the FP1 VPC download and a presentation deck you can use to illustrate the new FP1 features to your customers, visit this new dedicated web page.   If you have trouble accessing this page via the link, sign in to PartnerSource and change the URL to:  .../PartnerSource/NewsEvents/News/MD_SL70_Feature Pack.

Note:  The "pull" distribution method will be used for the FP1 upgrade DVD/CDs - you will need to order these shipments because they will not be automatically shipped.

Tip:  The Beta 2 SL 7.0 FP1 VPC differencing disk is available. To use this with the SL 7.0 VPC, use a fresh copy and set it to read-only.

Note: The Beta 2 FP1 VPC does not contain the Project Server connector, but it will be provided with the final FP1 VPC, once it is ready for full-release.