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I cannot tell you for sure if this will work, but I think it should.<br />
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I remote into my client workstation and use QuickBooks installed on that workstation. So long as people are connecting to the machine that runs QuickBooks and run QB on that machine with the database on that machine or on a fast LAN connection to the machine, it should work.
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I cannot tell you for sure if this will work, but I think it should.

I remote into my client workstation and use QuickBooks installed on that workstation. So long as people are connecting to the machine that runs QuickBooks and run QB on that machine with the database on that machine or on a fast LAN connection to the machine, it should work.

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Awesome find, Cliff....<br />
Just what I needed for a little extra confidence moving forward. &nbsp;Not to mention some documentation to cover my butt if Intuit ever denies that they support RDS!<br />
Thanks for this.<br />
Ken C.
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Awesome find, Cliff....
Just what I needed for a little extra confidence moving forward.  Not to mention some documentation to cover my butt if Intuit ever denies that they support RDS!
Thanks for this.
Ken C.

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What I posted and Cliff posted means you can go forward with a reasonable degree of confidence
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What I posted and Cliff posted means you can go forward with a reasonable degree of confidence

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Cliff's research took me to the exact info I needed to make sure that my RDS install is supported and a wise configuration.<br />
Much appreciated.<br />
Ken C.
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Cliff's research took me to the exact info I needed to make sure that my RDS install is supported and a wise configuration.
Much appreciated.
Ken C.

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I'm installing a new server (Win Server 2016 Std.) &nbsp;and considering installing a Hyper-V machine as a Remote Desktop Server to host Quickbooks Enterprise 2018. &nbsp; <br />
I've called Intuit support to see if they have installation and configuration suggestions or documentation and found them to be be (predictably) unhelpful. &nbsp;They claim that they no longer support Remote Desktop deployments for QB Enterprise and suggest signing up for their hosted service (which sounds remarkably like Remote Desktop!).<br />
I don't want to waste company time and money on server setup and CALs only to find that it doesn't work.<br />
Any current users/admins out there with recent experience that can comment, advise, endorse or dissuade on this topic?<br />
Any input is appreciated.<br />
Ken C.
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I'm installing a new server (Win Server 2016 Std.)  and considering installing a Hyper-V machine as a Remote Desktop Server to host Quickbooks Enterprise 2018.   
I've called Intuit support to see if they have installation and configuration suggestions or documentation and found them to be be (predictably) unhelpful.  They claim that they no longer support Remote Desktop deployments for QB Enterprise and suggest signing up for their hosted service (which sounds remarkably like Remote Desktop!).
I don't want to waste company time and money on server setup and CALs only to find that it doesn't work.
Any current users/admins out there with recent experience that can comment, advise, endorse or dissuade on this topic?
Any input is appreciated.
Ken C.

Quickbooks Enterprise on Remote Desktop Server - Still supported?

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