[UCIMC-Tech] QB Registration

[Brian Duggan]

Yeah, I'm waiting to hear from Joy and Jason that 'multiple-user mode'
is indeed what it sounds like and that it's working for them.

I'm unsure that registration is a necessity to continue using
QuickBooks. The app is licensed with our key - I wonder if the '14 days
to register' is a scare tactic for Intuit to collect marketing and usage
data from its customers. The issue with registration is that it requires
a funcitonal IE, which is difficult to achieve on Windows Server 2008
for some reason. Please bear with me; I am a novice Windows administrator.

I will contact Intuit if I can't find this information in the QuickBooks
documentation. First I have to find the QuickBooks documentation.

Here's a breakdown of stuff that needs work on the Finance machine:

1. QuickBooks multi user
	probably working, requires testing
2. Allow multiple RDC connections to finance computer
	unconfigured
3. IMC VPN on Windows
	working, unfriendly configuration
4. Local backups
	in progress, currently not working
5. QuickBooks registration
	depends on 6
6. Tone down IE security
	?????

Thanks!
Brian

On 8/25/10 9:30 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> Thanks Joy.
> 
> Tech should be keeping the software discs, doing the registration and
> such as well.
> 
> Regarding licenses, how long will you need to have a license installed
> on your laptop, Jason? Once you no longer need to have access, we'll
> need to ask that you remove the program from your computer so the
> license can be used elsewhere.
> 
> The question of saving work, logging in at the same time, etc. should
> be tested. Brian said he enabled "multiple-user mode" in QB, so we're
> assuming that means you can operated independently on the same data
> and have changes merged together. It will be a testing process to make
> sure things are working the way we expect.
> 
> Brian, can you take care of the registration of QB today?  Also, we
> should run a couple use case tests based on Joy's last email. I want
> this to be working and resolved. You should also contact QB tech
> support to ask about multiple user mode, remote access, working on the
> same data, etc. I think we need to get them to explain top us what's
> possible before assuming how we plan to use QB will work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:04 AM, JOY <imcbooks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Brian and/or Jason,
>>
>> Someone needs to register QB. We only have 12 days left and I wanna make
>> sure we don't get shut down... I think Brian is fixing a bug to enable us to
>> do this, but wanted to make sure this is on your radar.
>>
>> I've been sending notices to tech, assuming you are wanting to keep track of
>> services, issues, etc. but if you would rather I didn't, let me know...
>>
>> Joy
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>> UCIMC Office Manager
>> 202 S. Broadway Ave., Suite 100
>> Urbana, IL 61801
>> imcbooks at gmail.com
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