Quickbooks Enterprise on a Windows 2008 Terminal Server

Published on Tuesday 2nd September, 2008 (AEST)

I had to install Quickbooks Enterprise 2008/09 onto a Windows 2008 Terminal Server recently. Intuit don't support running this application on a 2008 server—no surprises there—and the only reference on the topic I could find in their knowledge base confirmed that I was on my own:

Windows Server 2008 and the enhanced security implemented in this operating system will not allow Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions 8.0 to operate properly without additional configuration by a qualified Information Technology person. The additional configuration for Server 2008 may include setting up your Windows Policy Settings.

Quickbooks Enterprise will install ok, but the application will crash when it is run. To get it running, I removed the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration and temporarily set the Internet Explorer security settings to Low while the application ran for the first time. After this, Internet Explorer's settings could be changed back to the previous settings.

In order for non-admin users to be able to run Quickbooks, I had to disable UAC.

Has anybody else had experiences with Quickbooks Enterprise on a Windows 2008 Terminal Server?

Comments

Dave Finch (13th November 2008) wrote:

I found that I could not configure the edition unless the installation CD was inserted. A network path did not work. When I used a network path it reported an error beginning with "Quickbooks cannot complete the reconfiguration process" and suggesting I free up disk space. I had also installed MSXML 4 and .NET Framework 3.5, though I'm not certain these were neccessary.

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