• History and Upgrade Suggestions

    Here are a few friendly suggestions that you might want to park in the back of your minds that could help out with some yearly maintenance and upgrading. These are not day-to-day type things but can help out over time. There is a table in the system…
  • Moving Sage 500 ERP to New Server

    Hello all, I've been tasked in moving our current SAGE 500 ERP 2017 7.8.1 is running on Server 2008R2/SQL 2008R2 on XYZ domain to a new VM running Server 2016 Standard/SQL 2014 Standard on ABC domain. Given my short experience with SQL I wanted to get…
  • 1099 TY 2020 Stand-Alone Updates.

    This tax year's 1099 TY 2020 Stand-Alone updates will come with a minimum Product Update level varying by version: Sage 500 ERP 2017 will require, at minimum, the January 2019 (7.80.5 or later) to install this year's stand-alone update. Sage 500…
  • Sage 500 2019 Upgrade/Installation Compatibility Error

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    Hello, I am in the processing of Upgrading a Win 2012 R2/Sql 2014 Sage 500 2018 installation to Sage 500 2019. I followed the upgrade guide inside of the installation, but upon completion, reboot, and attempted login I get the error: This Sage 500…
  • Sage 1000 / 500 server computer name change

    I have virtualized my sage 1000 server, I have changed the computer name of my new server and now the application is not running. I have made changes to all entries referring to the old server the windows registry, agent.bat, IIS and SQL server. What…
  • Is MS Office required on the server for Sage 500?

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    FormerMember
    I have inherited a Sage 500 (7.4) system and the server has MS Office 2007 installed. Is this a necessary component of Sage 500 or can Office be uninstalled? I know it is old, let's not get hung up there. I am working on vulnerability remediation and…
  • Sage 500 ERP January 2016 Product Updates for v2013, v2014 and v2016 are released!

    The download links for client, server, client source, server source are available in Sage Knowledgebase. The Release Notes are contained in each download link. As a reminder, the download portal includes links to all the downloads. It is the one-stop…
  • Failed Upgrade: 7.40.10.0 (Jan 2014) + 2015 1099 to 2016 (7.70)

    Can somebody confirm this for me? I'm working through test upgrades from 7.4.10 to the newly-released 2016 version. Our DB (before applying the 7.4 2015 1099 Update) upgrades successfully, but if the 1099 update is applied will fail during the 7.6-…
  • Best practices for upgrading from Sage/MAS 500 v7.4 to MAS v2014.1

    My client is planning to upgrade from MAS 500 v7.4.4 to v2014.1. Can anyone offer pointers to best practices, checklists, installation and test procedures & plans. Plus, anything special to pay extra attention to? Thanks in advance, BruceB