Quickbooks teh sux0rs
Yesterday I worked on updated Quickbooks Pro from 2005 to 2008. I've dealt with a lot of crappy software over the years, some that even manage to crash Svr2003. From an administration standpoint of installation, this has to be the worst I've come across yet. Partly because the install itself was horrific and that Intuit should know what they're doing by now.
We use QB off one server with two accountants using the company files. When I go to install the update, I have 2 option: Single computer and Multi-computer. When reading the little "this is how to install your QB software" card and the install section of the book, I determined that multi-computer mode was what I wanted. Under the card, there's even an image of using multi-computer install for feeding off one database. Well, it was wrong. ALL bloody wrong.
After installing it on both computer under multi-computer and getting all kind of fun error messages, I decide to try single computer installation. At this point, with my companies backed up, what's the worst that can happen (famous last words, eh?).
*POOF* It worked! I just clicked in and viola, life is good.
Of course, one of the computer upgrades fubared and I had to uninstall and reinstall everything.
Moral of the story is under a network version multi-user setting, naturally use the single computer installation option. Duh!
We use QB off one server with two accountants using the company files. When I go to install the update, I have 2 option: Single computer and Multi-computer. When reading the little "this is how to install your QB software" card and the install section of the book, I determined that multi-computer mode was what I wanted. Under the card, there's even an image of using multi-computer install for feeding off one database. Well, it was wrong. ALL bloody wrong.
After installing it on both computer under multi-computer and getting all kind of fun error messages, I decide to try single computer installation. At this point, with my companies backed up, what's the worst that can happen (famous last words, eh?).
*POOF* It worked! I just clicked in and viola, life is good.
Of course, one of the computer upgrades fubared and I had to uninstall and reinstall everything.
Moral of the story is under a network version multi-user setting, naturally use the single computer installation option. Duh!