Re: QuickBooks and its users
From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 03/23/05
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:02:25 -0600
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-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backup" wrote: | QuickBooks and its users. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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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