[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] Quickbooks 2006 - how to get it to run without giving it Administrator rights - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Thu, Dec 14 2006 0:22 bradley

Quickbooks 2006 - how to get it to run without giving it Administrator rights

The mega mondo, new and improved how to instructions to get Quickbooks to run as a normal user with Quckbooks 2006 in a server setting using the power of group policy so you don't have to sneaker net around to each client is

http://www.threatcode.com/group_policy.htm

... of course I still think the easier solution is to buy Quickbooks 2007 as it was built to run without admin rights (after the R4 version in particular) and will run on Vista.... but that's just after doing screen shots for a few hours so that might have a bearing on that attitude....

(and word is tech support is still saying that you need to give it admin rights, which is totally incorrect as this is a supported method to do this  - admin rights are not manditory at all and all you need to do is fire up that Group Policy Management console and start making your users happy non-administrators)

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Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:18 PM by indy

Sadly, we have other accounting apps that also need the ability to auto-update/auto-install on the fly, so we must keep two of accounting users admins.  These are the exact people we *don't* want to have admin rights!

It's a battle I've lost.  when it comes to payroll+adminrights versus no payroll+user rights, even I cave...