Quickbooks 2005

[Kenazo]

Intuit says it doesn't work on NT or 2003, anyone know of a work around? (it works on xp). We're running windows 2003 termserv.

 

[EagleKeeper]

If they say it will not work, then they either are using some special API that does not exist or is broken in the other versions.

They probably have code in place to check the OS version in order to prevent the program from running.

 

[Kenazo]

QB 2003 didn't work in terminal server either, however there was a work around to get it to work. 05 is still a bit to new, and there is no info on it yet.
Can someone help me out?

 

[Kenazo]

Figured it out:
here?s the QuickBooks 2005 Terminal Server work around:

When QuickBooks is starting it looks for the following directory: c:\windows\intuit. In a terminal server environment each user has their own \windows\ directory, found under %userprofile%\windows\ Thus, the intuit directory has to be copied from c:\windows\intuit to each of the user?s windows directories. I manually did this, a script could also be written, I suppose.

Secondly, the QBW.ini file needs to be edited to reflect the following:


LastDataDrive=?%username%\my documents?
LastDataDirectory=?%username%\my documents?
DataFile=
[MRUFiles]

Delete any file entries listed under [MRUFiles]
Make QBW.ini read only.

This worked for us.