Clients First held their fifth in a series of monthly MAS90/200 Tips and Tricks Webinars. The focus of these webinars is to offer our clients free training and tips regarding specific functionality and issues that apply to a large portion of our client base nationally. The third of these had over 30 attendees and has been recorded for your convenience.

This particular episode focused on the MAS90 Credit Card Processing solution.

Thanks to all who invested valuable time and attended and thanks to the hard working Clients First team who worked tireless hours prepare all of this content!

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© 2009, Mark Chinsky. All rights reserved. Formed in 2005. the 90 Minds Consulting Group is a collaboration of 100 Sage partners who independently join together online in a 24 x 7 private communication network to solve difficult issues for their customers. The group is not affiliated with Sage and our collaboration provides for unparalleled member access to early warnings of bugs and other issues which members in turn are encouraged to use to provide an exceptional customer experience.

Subject: How to Migrate – Single User to Single User

In FAS Asset Accounting:

1. In the original FAS Asset Accounting program, backup the database (Do this once for each database).
   1. Go to: File | Company Utilities | Backup Company.
   2. Choose a database from the pull down menu.
   3. Choose Select All.
   4. Select location to save the backup file.
   5. Specify a name for the backup file in the file name field (Suggest to use the name of the database).
   6. Click Backup.  Copy the backup file(s) to the new machine.
2. Install the FAS Asset Accounting program on the new computer.
3. Create a new database (Do this once for each backup file). In FAS Asset Accounting:
   1. Go to: File | Database List Manager.
   2. Select New Database.
   3. Choose location where keep the databases (This location must be on a local hard drive.
   4. Enter the Physical Database Name (Suggest to use the same name as the original database).
   5. Enter a Logical Database Name (when this field is selected, the physical database name is automatically copied into this field.)
   6. Select OK.
4. Restore the backup(s). (Do this once for each backup file):
   1. Go to: File | Company Utilities | Restore Company.
   2. Choose a backup file (*.BBK file) to restore | Press Next.
   3. Select one of the newly created databases to restore the company or companies into | Click Next.
   4. Select desired purge option.
      NOTE: Purging the history has the advantage of speeding up data access performance.  While this is the suggested method, be aware that purging the history will remove depreciation event entries under the History tab of assets.
   5. Press Restore.

© 2009, Mark Chinsky. All rights reserved. Formed in 2005. the 90 Minds Consulting Group is a collaboration of 100 Sage partners who independently join together online in a 24 x 7 private communication network to solve difficult issues for their customers. The group is not affiliated with Sage and our collaboration provides for unparalleled member access to early warnings of bugs and other issues which members in turn are encouraged to use to provide an exceptional customer experience.