QuickBooks 2003 and Enterprise Solutions V2 and Microsoft Terminal Server

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Question

How does QuickBooks 2003 and Enterprise Solutions V2 work with Terminal Server?

Answer

QuickBooks Pro 2003 and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions V2 will all work in a Terminal Server environment, however they will work differently when it comes to registration and multi user mode.

QuickBooks Pro 2003

QuickBooks Pro 2003 will run on Terminal Server in single user mode. Multiple Terminal Clients can all use QuickBooks at the same time as long as they are accessing different data files. Most importantly QuickBooks must be registered once through a Terminal Server Client session and not through the server itself.

Note! You should not use QuickBooks on the actual server, doing so will loose the registration details shared by the Terminals

Users will not be able to access the same data file from separate Terminal Server clients in multi user mode. If users try to do this they will be rejected.

The reason the second user is rejected is because QuickBooks detects the open request from the second user, it goes looking for the second registration entry. As the software is installed on the server there is only one registration entry in the registry. The second user is told that the registration number they are trying to use is already in use and they need to re-install their QuickBooks with a second registration number.

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions V2
QuickBooks Enterprise will run in both single and multi user modes on Terminal Server. However it must be registered on the server machine and not on the client machines unlike QuickBooks Pro.

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