You still will set granular permissions and passwords inside the program so this feels worse in permissions than it actually is.Īdd the qbdataserviceuser18 (for 2008 or Enterprise 8.0) or qbdataserviceuser19 (for 2009 or Enterprise 9.0) to the NTFS permissions and allow Full Control.Ĭhoose QBDataServiceUser18 and add full control. So we need to check the permissions of that folder and add domain users (if that’s who has access) or Quickbooks user group and give them Full Control.
Now, make sure you choose the More than one user to install the database monitoring program on the server You’ll not that it wants to install Flash (yuck) When it downloads then launch the program by right mouse clicking the icon and clicking on Run As Admin I’m not sure I agree with that but it’s an interesting read nonethless –
This page and download recommends that you still install the software on the server itself. If you installing QB 2008 start by downloading the latest and greatest version from here:ĭownload QuickBooks Premier – Download QuickBooks Pro – Download QuickBooks Enterprise – Running QuickBooks on Windows Server 2008: First a little bit of homework… Quickbooks has a networking page that covers a lot of tips and trick here: This assumes that you need to have multiple people accessing the SAME data file at the SAME time.įirst off you have to install only the database part on the server and then the program on the workstations. (This post will be about installing QB 2008 on SBS 2008, I’ll be doing one for QB 2009 and also in a TS setting)