If you read on, even without purchasing anything, you will learn QuickBooks
setup secrets that took me years to learn. If you have QuickBooks
or accounting experience, you know that QuickBooks performance holds you back, slowing you down in your everyday
bookkeeping tasks. You can't afford to miss what a well designed robust QuickBooks installation can help you accomplish. Imagine no more manual backups or QuickBooks restarts again! I've worked with QuickBooks since the early 1990s. I install QuickBooks Multi User for clients and use it in my own business. My time tested installation methods work with all five user or less network installations of versions Pro through Enterprise 2006 to 2010, with computers running Microsoft Windows XP Pro, Vista and Windows 7 and function exceptionally well in all types of businesses. These four steps will make your QuickBooks installation sizzle! First - Networking between
QuickBooks computers cannot be wireless and needs to be a step up from
the norm. QuickBooks works best with ultra fast gigabit networking.
Each QuickBooks computer must have a gigabit network interface,
connected to a gigabit switch, using gigabit certified cabling. Using
an off the shelf eight port gigabit switch
Second - Each QuickBooks computer must meet the minimum requirements listed below:
It's very important to distinguish between firewall or security software and antivirus software. Each desktop computer that runs QuickBooks needs an antivirus program. However, do not use comprehensive security software. One or more firewall software installations on a QuickBooks computer will cause QuickBooks to run very poorly. Turn off the Windows firewall and remove any security software except a single antivirus program. A firewall's place is at the
gateway to the Internet. Install a unified threat management device
Third - Install all production QuickBooks company files on a dedicated QuickBooks computer that will become your QuickBooks production server. Your valuable QuickBooks company files must be in a safe, secure location. A dedicated QuickBooks server is a computing device that has no keyboard, mouse or monitor. It usually resides in an out of the way closet or shelf. Only QuickBooks and QuickBooks add on software is installed on a dedicated QuickBooks server. Long story short; you simply do not want to host QuickBooks company files on a dynamically changing computer used on someone's desk every day. Yes, I know that QuickBooks can be hosted on a user's desktop computer; however, I've seen multitudes of problems with desktop computers becoming unstable due to virus, other malware and unintended user problems, causing file damage and rendering QuickBooks data unavailable to other network users. I've also seen how slow QuickBooks runs on a conventional network when several users are in QuickBooks at the same time. In order for your QuickBooks multi user installation to work correctly and the environment be robust and productive, your business might need to make some minor infrastructure changes. A QuickBooks Server performs automated tasks within QuickBooks and other "QuickBooks add on" software such as nightly off site backups, order downloads from your website to QuickBooks and keeping each of your QuickBooks desktop computers updated to the latest QuickBooks version. A nightly backup process will keep your company files compressed, verified, well maintained and fast. I've successfully deployed QuickBooks servers into many businesses. They've frequently run over a year without requiring reboots. In 2008, I wrote a step by step guide for building a QuickBooks server from an XP Pro desktop computer and a 2008 version of QuickBooks Pro. "Build Your Own QuickBooks Production Server" sells for $19.95, the same money you might spend for a decent computer book at your local discount book store. It contains over 80 pages of step by step illustrated instructions that apply to every version of QuickBooks since 2006. It includes:
Avoid headaches with a robust QuickBooks setup. Complete your QuickBooks Multi User
installation with the instructions from my book. Your search for QuickBooks speed is over.
Finally - The Holy Grail of QuickBooks setup. Consider a QuickBooks Production Server with secure remote access. It will free you to do business from anywhere. Remote access allows secure use of QuickBooks company files from inside your office, from home or on the road. You can even have your accountant access your QuickBooks files. You can enjoy not installing any software on desktop computers and laptops and not upgrading your network. They say one picture’s worth a thousand words. Look carefully at this screen shot of my QuickBooks Production Server running as a multi user QuickBooks Application Server on a shoe string. You can plainly see three user’s remote desktop QuickBooks Multi User sessions and an administrator desktop session simultaneously working on an XP Pro based terminal server. I access QuickBooks form anywhere with high speed Internet.  Hosted QuickBooks remote access can cost as much as $50 per user per month. Save your money! Purchase "Build Your Own QuickBooks Production Server" now. Build your own server. Then, install "Thin Stuff" the same QuickBooks remote access solution I use, for as little as $99 and eliminate recurring monthly QuickBooks hosting charges. I'll send you links to purchase "Thin Stuff" and additional instructions in my download confirmation email. |
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and manufactured cables, plug a cable
from the switch to the present network and plug cables from the
QuickBooks computers to the gigabit switch, achieving gigabit
networking easily.