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QB Enterprise user limits

I have a client with QB enterprise installed on a windows 2003 server . They currently have 8 users. They are reorganizing and dividing up into two separate companies under one roof. One of the companies will have about 5 users and the other may stay close to 8. While its unlikely they'd all be on at the server at the same time, I'm still curious: Assuming that they still use the same server, what will happen when 6 users are accessing company file A while 5 users are accessing Company file B? Will the user limit kick someone out? or does the user limit only affect the number of people using a single company file?

Thanks!

Craig

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MacroMan
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You are in luck. QB only alows one company to be open at a time so you need not worry about limits you mention.

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Allan Martin

If he is running Quickbooks on a Terminal Server, he should be able to open multiple company files at the same time, eventhough each session can only have one copy of Quickbooks running with a single company file.

I am pretty sure that the ten user limit is simultaneous users accessing a single company file, and that you would be OK doing what you plan. However, whether this is permitted under the license agreement is another question.

Mike Schumann

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Mike Schumann

Should we interpet your qualifiers such as "should be able", and "pretty sure", to a certain degree of uncertainly?

Reply to
Allan Martin

Yes. I have not tried this. I suspect that it will work as I specified, but I am not certain.

Mike Schumann

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Mike Schumann

Thanks, I'm guessing that, too. Perhaps the limit won't even be tested before he moves on to another application.

Craig

Reply to
MacroMan

See there you go again using words like "suspect".

Reply to
Allan Martin

Is there a problem with admitting that you are not sure and that you may be wrong???

Mike Schumann

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Mike Schumann

MIke,

I'm just kidding with you. To tell you the truth I have absolutly no experience with the QB Enterprise Edition.

Personally I believe if a company reaches the point where the feel that they need QB Enterprise then it is time for them to move up the software food chain to a mid-range application like Accpac Advantage Series.

In any event, here is a question for you. Does QB Enterprise require any of its program code to be installed on the server, or will it work with only data on the server?

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Allan Martin

QB Enterprise Edition is very similar to QB Pro, except that there are more users and higher limits on other transactions. It doesn't solve some of the performance problems in QB Pro. I would only look at this as an interim solution, making the assumption that Intuit comes up with a redesigned QBooks with a new internal database engine before you, as the user, completely runs out of gas. If you can risk the wait, it might save you a lot of migration hassle and retraining vs. moving to another package.

You do not have to install anything on a server, but, for performance reasons, the best solution is to install QBooks on a Terminal Server and run all user sessions using Terminal Server, so as to avoid the performance bottleneck of the LAN between the data on the server and the client session running on a PC.

Mike Schumann

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Mike Schumann

Then if that is the case the definitive answer to the original post by the OP is that they can have a group of 8 users accessing company A's data and another group of 10 users accessing company B's at the same time.

The limit is 10 distinct concurrent users for each company but multiple companies can be open at the same time, each subject to the 10 user limit.

Naturally each workstation would need license.

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Allan Martin

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