I know that 2004 no longer works on Terminal Services (like 2003 did), but I was told some time back by Intuit that there is anunsupported 'tweak' that will allow it to work on TS.
Does anyone know anything about this?
We could really do with moving our QB onto TS.
Thanks
QB 2004 works just fine using Terminal Services. There are only 3 things you need to worry about:
Note: While it runs, Intuit does not support Terminal Services.
Mike Schumann
Our problem is that our finance department didn't buy the 5-user pack. They bought 2 x 2 users and 1 user seperately.
I tried it some time ago and it didn't work, and when I asked Intuid they said there was an unsupported workaround to make it work.
Yes there is a workaround and its as eazy as 123. All you have to do is find Waldo in this post.
It still works, but you can only have one user at a time running QBooks in a terminal server session. Additional users can run on QBooks sessions running locally on PCs connected to the network.
Mike Schumann
There is no workaround to the 5 user problem. This is caused by the fact that QBooks uses a single Registry hive on the server to store licensing info, so there is no way to store more than one CD key on the server.
Mike Schumann
I wonder if a completely different setup wouldln't work. One with Linux. I'm using Linux right now to run Quickbooks..I believe Wine (Windows compatibility layer for Linux) supports Quickbooks up to 2004 and Linux has a built in terminal server fuctionality Combined with UltraVNC you might have a cheap solution.
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