Quickbooks on Remote Desktop Services server
We use Quickbooks Enterprise 12, licensed for five users. Currently, the database manager is located on one of our file servers, and Quickbooks is installed locally on three client machines, of which...
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We currently run the same setup - Quickbooks database manager and files installed on a server which all users connect to with a RemoteApp. For the users to be able to export to Excel, you will need to...
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I would give support a call & ask if they have a KB article or recommended method for doing it. Let us know what you come up with though, that would be interesting. If I remember rightly with...
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Well, as far as a KB, this is what I've found: http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Articles/INF16393 As for Office - crap. I pretty much knew that anyway, but it would have been simpler if it...
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Have you ruled out network issues as a cause of the delay? Quickbooks files tend to grow large over time and network issues can make it seem like the software is lagging when working on a network file...
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Well, my idea was to make it a virtual machine. One of my ESXi hosts has plenty of capacity, and it'd be a lot cheaper to buy a Server license than new machines for them. I've also got a spare Office...
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I believe that if they are exporting to Excel, aren't they exporting to CSV? This works even if Office isn't installed on the server (I have a setup like this. QB on server, Office not, users can...
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They could export to CSV and pull local, but that will require extra steps. Otherwise just put Office on the server. The other gotcha that used to be there was the qbprint file. There was only the...
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Yeah, exporting to .csv would just irritate the; I'd have to go with Office on the server. Interestingly, the Connection Diagnostic Tool on the current file server completely fails to load:...
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Yeah, could be a permissions issue. You can simulate all the stuff it is doing, like pinging the server to make sure the IP resolves, and making sure the permissions are correct.
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For extra hilarity, we're on patch R9; the server refuses to upgrade to R10 on the basis that no version is installed. Attached is what the diagnostic is showing me. edit: I take it back, it looks...
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Yeah, those patches can be tricky sometimes. If your hosting isn't working properly, then one of the clients will step in as the host and that is very very slow, especially if the file is on the server.
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I wound up having to uninstall, reboot, and reinstall the database manager, but that's finally looking good. I had no idea a client could step up as the host, so that may very well be what was going...
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Yeah, having it on a central server makes updating easier. If you are in a client and hit F2 it should bring up the screen that will tell you which machine is acting as the...
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Nic, I have set up a 2008R2 server in a complete xp environment. they are using QB 13.0 and were running as an app with RDP services, 5 user. runs great until.....someone prints from either or another...
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NeoWade wrote: Nic, I have set up a 2008R2 server in a complete xp environment. they are using QB 13.0 and were running as an app with RDP services, 5 user. runs great until.....someone prints from...
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Enterprise 13.0, using RDP services and 5 users. 2008R2 server all workstations running XP-pro SP3. Users log in works great one user may print an invoice using a Lexmark 4000 series dot matrix track...
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What version are you on? I think they had some issues with crashing that was fixed by a recent patch. If you are on the most recent version then it sounds like a bug as it shouldn't be crashing...
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Does anyone have trouble with color? I have Enterprise 12 on a Windows 7 Pro computer, and the user accesses it through remote desktop. Get an error when trying to set colors - says need at least...
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On the issue with exporting to excel for financial statement writer and such. We got away with having it on the client machine, when the file is exporting, be sure to use a LOCAL path that is relative...
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