We installed everything on the server and only got the 'you must have IE 11' error message when we tried to open QuickBooks on the server. This has worked very well for a number of years, until we wanted to update QB to the currentĢ018 version. We are not in the office that has the QB network very often and try to accomplish maintenance work via remote connection to the server. However, then we would have to manually transfer the data files to a workstation each time we needed to check/work on/update them, then manually copy themīack to the server. We could install only the database side of QuickBooks on the server (not the full application). It is used for upgrade/maintenance/troubleshooting work on the shared QB files that are accessed by The server is not used as a workstation in terms of running the QB application. Network, but to do so directly on locally stored data files only. Intuit technical support strongly recommends NOT doing critical functions (backups, data integrity checks) over the The server part of the QB installation must be working before the workstations can do anything with the software.īeyond the initial installation, all significant file maintenance/troubleshooting work with QuickBooks has to be done on the server. QB is hosted on the server computer and the server houses the QB company data files that are used by the workstations when We need to have IE 11 installed on the server to use the QuickBooks application in any way there (even to open the program).

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