THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

I'll again be obnoxious and point out that Quickbooks always runs in user mode....that's where most apps run (except the ones that call themselves apps but have a kernel mode driver :)). Rather, you want them to run in least privelage user mode.
You know me, always a stickler for the details of user/kernel, as a debugging guy. :)

I really wish Intuit "got it".

I would like to buy you a beer for posting this.

Thanks,
Tom

Too much for my brain to handle. I can't believe Intuit does it this way. Oh, and as I was researching this, the 24/7 Quickbooks support is for 5am to 5pm pacific time, M-F. Thanks A-holes, glad I could talk my customer into buying your product, so I could install it over the weekend, only to learn that it does not work properly, as noted above.

Thanks for posting this, now I have to explain my mistake for believing what I read. Intuit liar's!!!

Is MS new accounting package better than quickbooks or has anyone tested it?

I have mild to moderate hopes for the new MS Accounting for small biz but am still doubtfull and full of generalized anxiety because I think they'll find a way to botch the job on an otherwise perfectly useable piece of software. For starters, it's going to run on msde desktop version of SQL and not on SQL 2000.

Sigh... Why did I buy Small Business Server Premium 2003 complete with SQL 7.0, Sharepoint, Exchange, if I can't actually use it in my small business without dropping 20k (starter fee) for Great Plains? We still use Quickbooks pro 5-user via terminal services because it's cheap and easy and does the job but it's also quite useless when it comes to centralizing multiple company files and sharing report data live via web/sharepoint. So,... it's print, sign, dial and fax, print, sign, dial and fax all day long instead of here's your username and password, get your own (insert explicative) report data.
Since day one of office 98'-2003' a user has not been able to so much as sell a cup of lemonaide efficiently with it and that has been a sore point. I ask only a few simple things of this suite and I will gladly convert to it.

1) More than 2 custom fields in the sales and invoice reciept. Small Business Manager 8.0 (Great Plains Lite?) has only 2 and is thus rendered useless for any professional small business, which needs to sort data in a meaningful way relevent to thier own line of work. Quickbooks-Pro has 10 user defineable fields for customizing entries which provides a small business owner tremendous flexability for generating reports.
2) Simple live data connection to web/sharepoint if only for read access one-way so custom reports can be filtered and viewed via web and I can retire my laser printers and faxes forever. Mwahahaha
3) 5-user limit is fine as long as I can have multiple company files, QB's allows this in a terminal services envoronment...
4) Multiple company file connectivity with sharepoint lists, contacts etc so we can actually use Sharepoint as a single point entry for maintaining contacts and updating billing addresses etc.. Instead of maintaining those lists on 6 or 7 seperate quickbooks company files.

Bottom line is, for companies which have multiple low/med revenue (250k and under) offices/stores spread out regionally and only a couple of users at each location there has been no decent application which allows them to maintain their own seperate GL and also collaborate and share thier sales and report data meaningfully at a single point like Sharepoint.
The opportunity to leverage a small server farm with terminal services and Server 2003 standard and Small Business Server 2003 exists but there's really nothing other than Quickbooks to put on it for us small guys.
Just bake me the cake and I'll make my own frosting, I don't give a hoot about all the forcasting and built-in inventory tracking and all that gobbledygook, it's never accurate to begin with and anyway, that's what excel is for. Just let me connect my sales and report data and as for security, it should simply mirror what is already in place on the Active Directory server level.
Regards,

Steven
what's so hard about that?

Okay, not sure what I did wrong, but it is still giving me the error to add the useer to power users or admin group. I followed the instructions a listed above, and I did a gpresult to make sure the policy was applied. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thank you for this. you've saved me hours of work. and now i look at least slightly heroic to my client. rock on.

Thanks a lot for posting this. The solution is so easy when you really think about it but it's amazing what doesn't occur to us (me in particular) in moments of EXTREME frustration. IMHO this whole situation is just a lawsuit waiting to happen for Intuit. Just the fact that I have to give my accountant full control of an entire root tree scares the hell outta me - but I suppose it's better than full administrative rights.
As a note, another alternative to this (for someone not comfortable editing permissions or working in the registry) is to create a seperate user account with administrative permissions on the computer then assign the working account (the one the client will actually be using) as a limited account. Then use the "run as" command to run Quickbooks as the administrative user under the limited user (working) account. Of course, the client could go into the administrative account any time they want but most people with a limited knowledge of computers (like our accountant) don't even think about it. Besides, to the every day user there really is no difference between an administrative account and a user account. Therefor most users don't even feel a need to access the administrative account; and if they do it's usually for malicious purposes or at least to being something they probably know they shouldn't be doing in the first place.

Just a thought

Sterling

Well after spending several hours I now have a security template that only changes the required HKCR keys...I'm not sure if an auto update will work since I had fully updated before going through the registry. The link will be broken for now until I upload it later.