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How Can I Automate the Backup of a Quickbooks Server?

I have three computers: The first is the company file server which has the Quick Books company file, is always on, and lives in the closet. The other two are Quick Books Clients. All are XP Pro. I need a way to automatically backup the QB data file,…
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Gracefully log all users out of QuickBooks via command line

I am helping administer systems for a small business that (unfortunately) uses QuickBooks 14 to manage its accounting. As an aside, is it just me or is QuickBooks one of the most poorly-programmed popular client-server applications in existence?…
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Subversion and Quickbooks Files

I currently have a large problem on one of the file servers I manage for an Accounting Firm. Quickbooks has a tendency to create multiple files of the same thing over and over to prevent data loss. This is a good thing when you handle just a few…
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Previously Working Quickbooks Integrated Applications Crash On Fresh Server Install

We have just migrated to a new server for one of our clients and we have two applications that integrate with Quickbooks using the Quickbooks COM library. Both of these applications worked without issue on the previous server, and both still boot…
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Service fails to start - very little info in logs

I am trying to get the Quickbooks Database Server installed on my server. It is an old version intended to be installed on Fedora 6. I have successfully installed it on Fedora 7 with no issues at all. The thing is, I do not like the idea of…
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Debugging slow Quickbooks in multi-user mode

Building 1: Main QB server with 15 users Building 2: 12 users accessing the QB server There is no sluggishness in building 1. Building 2 has issues. They can RDP to the server fine with no lag but when they access directly with QB it runs slow. We…
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Running desktop software as a "service"

We've got a Windows Server Standard 2008 server that needs to run QuickBooks Sync Manager, which is an application that only works properly from one user account (the account that configured it). The QuickBooks Sync Manager will only run if the user…
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Quickbooks 2011 now requires UAC logn, but the currently logged on user and password WORKS FINE?

I have a real strange one... I do IT work for an accounting firm, and because they have such a diverse group of clients, they have many different versions of Quickbooks installed at once. All employees run as "standard Users" (ie, not admin or…
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Unable to surf to Internet Explorer 8 Trusted sites

After an install of QuickBooks 2009 Pro (QB) I'm getting a prompt that IE 8 seucurity settings need to be changed. When I click "Fix errors" it opens the standard IE 8 add site to Trusted site dialog. The first add was fine, but the second one that…
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SPF Records for QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks online sends email from the email address listed on the account. This is always going to be the email address of the business rather than an email address that Intuit have permission to send from. How can I make sure that my emails from…
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Quickbooks Server - insane fragmentation and disk space concerns

So I recently came into a position to manage the server for our small, 12 person, company. The previous sysadmin here had absolutely no clue what he was doing, and has left the following situation. I fortunately know alot more about computers and PC…
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Is QuickBooks Online a viable alternative to QuickBooks?

I'm looking into moving a small non-profit business from a desktop-based Quickbooks Pro setup to Intuit's QuickBooks Online service. I'm primarily looking for a more reliable setup for them, as they've had reliability issues with their server from…
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Disable prompt "allow script/activex control to run"

We have a policy of disallowing scripts and ActiveX controls to run on in IE our network (instead opting to use Firefox) thereby skirting a number of security issues dating back to IE 6, but we recently decided to purchase QuickBooks, which requires…
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Can't stop Base Filtering Engine service on Windows Server 2016 Essentials

According to Quickbooks Help, every time we restart our server (Server 2016 Essentials) we need to restart the Base Filtering Engine service. This procedure has always worked in the past for us. However, after the latest Windows Server updates…
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No Internet access from Server, but can access on other PC's

I've got a question about a Windows 2008 server that can't seem to access the Internet. This particular server is in Dallas and I'm in Houston, so I can't "physically" get to the server, but, apparently, at our site up in Dallas, they were having…
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