Re: QuickBooks and its users

From: Alun Jones [MSFT] (alunj_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/23/05

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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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"Backup" <backup@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> QuickBooks and its users.
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> We have users in the office that require the use of quick books.
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> 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.
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> 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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