Re: QuickBooks and its users

From: Knox (thornNOSPAM99_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:32:19 -0500

Hi, Alun,

Thanks very much for the link to treatcode. I had looked to solve this
issue and had not found this link. I can not believe that intuit hasn't
solved this for QB 2005. We are planning to upgrade to it later this year.

Knox
"Alun Jones [MSFT]" <alunj@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You might investigate the Application Compatibility Toolkit, available
> from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D7D08414-0136-492F-9AD9-CE8AEB7500C7 -
> it has the ability to "fake out" several of the settings that applications
> rely on when they insist on running as Power User or Administrator. It
> has presets for Quickbooks 2000 and Quickbooks 5.0 - and there may be
> settings you can use for other versions of Quickbooks.
>
> One of the MVPs, Susan Bradley, offers her description of opening up
> Quickbooks 2003 for regular users at
> http://www.threatcode.com/quickbooks.htm - this is an external site, and
> not supported by Microsoft. I offer it only as an alternative view that
> you might not find immediately.
>
> One purchasing tool you can use to ensure that your software will run
> outside of Administrators is to look for the "Designed for Windows XP"
> logo. Obviously, there are programs out there that run under regular user
> accounts that do not have this logo, but the requirements for the
> "Designed for Windows XP" logo include that the software run under a low
> privileged user account (except for tools that need high privilege -
> administrative tools, backup software and the like).
>
> Alun.
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> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> "Backup" <backup@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:O6CPYU8LFHA.1144@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> QuickBooks and its users.
>>
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>> We have users in the office that require the use of quick books.
>>
>> I have been instructed to install it on workstations etc. What I have
>> come to find is that in order to even run QuickBooks you need to be a
>> power users (this is the lowest membership) or Administrator of the
>> machine you're using.
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>> This all being said poses a problem. Typically users of the system
>> aren't granted any rights in the domain other than Domain User. A few
>> exceptions have been made for some of the "SUITS" and "Programmers /
>> Developers" whom need full admin rights over the machine they use. This
>> isn't the case for every user, and I now seem to have to grant more
>> rights to the user over the workstation that they are using.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know. If I was the one reading this I would reply with an answer like:
>> "If you can't trust your users to have elevated rights on your
>> computer(s), then why the hell would you trust them with data inside of
>> QuickBooks.
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>>
>> The only answer I can get from the support at QuickBooks is that this is
>> the way the software works due to all the many background process that
>> run pertaining to their software.
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>>
>> So. now does any one have a suggestion for me as to how I can protect my
>> workstations and let users use software they need to do their job with?
>>
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