Re: QuickBooks and its users

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:02:25 -0600

How to set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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"Backup" wrote:
| QuickBooks and its users.
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| We have users in the office that require the use of quick books.
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| I have been instructed to install it on workstations etc. What I have come 
| to find is that in order to even run QuickBooks you need to be a power users 
| (this is the lowest membership) or Administrator of the machine you're 
| using.
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| This all being said poses a problem.  Typically users of the system aren't 
| granted any rights in the domain other than Domain User.  A few exceptions 
| have been made for some of the "SUITS" and "Programmers / Developers" whom 
| need full admin rights over the machine they use.  This isn't the case for 
| every user, and I now seem to have to grant more rights to the user over the 
| workstation that they are using.
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| I know. If I was the one reading this I would reply with an answer like: 
| "If you can't trust your users to have elevated rights on your computer(s), 
| then why the hell would you trust them with data inside of QuickBooks.
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| The only answer I can get from the support at QuickBooks is that this is the 
| way the software works due to all the many background process that run 
| pertaining to their software.
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| So. now does any one have a suggestion for me as to how I can protect my 
| workstations and let users use software they need to do their job with?

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