I'm looking for a solution to allowing Mac's access to Quickbooks enterprise Solutions 12. I have 12 mac users that need to have access to Quickbooks. Quickbooks enterprise as far as I know doesn't have an installer for OSX. Only 4 of the Mac's are Intel's otherwise I would just use virtual box or any other vmware to install windows and Quickbooks on a virtual machine. I currently have them connect through remote desktop to a workstation that has Quickbooks installed but it's not a very idea solution since I end up having to reboot the host box frequently. If any one has come up with a good way to support Mac clients in Quickbooks enterprise environment I would be happy to learn how you did it. I didn't see enterprise 12 on that list so I'll see what happens.
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Since using Quickbooks enterprise 3 years now I haven't had any issue that required me to get support (knock on wood) yet. But your right it would suck to not be supported, I'm really just curious to see if it runs though. It would require a lot more testing maybe by one or two users before I installed on the rest. Yep Quickbooks would not start after the installation. That was version 11 that I was trying first, now I'm trying version 12 but I'm expecting the same outcome. Oh well it was worth a shot. TigerBlood wrote: I didn't see enterprise 12 on that list so I'll see what happens.
Since using Quickbooks enterprise 3 years now I haven't had any issue that required me to get support (knock on wood) yet. But your right it would suck to not be supported, I'm really just curious to see if it runs though. It would require a lot more testing maybe by one or two users before I installed on the rest. Still, the fact that all the ones that have been tried say that they don't work, and the rest say unknown is a bad sign. I used to work at Intuit, so I'm intimately familiar with QuickBooks (I actually started there supporting QBES) - I've never talked to anyone who got Crossover working. Your best bet is either VMs or TS, like Tim recommends. Anything else either won't work, or worse, will cause data corruption as Tim says.
Dec 10, 2018 - By the end, you'll know how much QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Enterprise cost and be aware of any additional fees you might encounter. QuickBooks Enterprise is a Windows program. There is no QuickBooks Enterprise for the Mac. To run it on a Mac you will need to purchase Windows, with either Bootcamp, or Parallels or Fusionware. Those programs allow you to run Windows on your Mac.
TigerBlood wrote: I would prefer to just do VM's or Terminal Server but most of the Macs are PowerPC and I'm pretty sure that you can't use VMware on that architecture. If I set up a Terminal server with Server 2008 R2 SP1 would I be able to access the hosted application from a mac, I don't have any experience with Terminal Services and haven't read the documentation yet.
Terminal Services is your best bet, and it is easy to setup. Costs a bit for the licensing, but worth it in saving you the hassle.
Using TS means you only have to upgrade the one installation, and you don't have to deal with the mess of the database hosting. The Mac version split off from the Windows version a long time ago.
It got cancelled a couple of times and then resurrected. The end result is that the Mac version is behind the Windows version in terms of features, and there is no Enterprise client for Mac. Your one other option would be QuickBooks Online, but that is only if you can get by without the Enterprise features that QBO doesn't have. And I don't know if you can convert from Enterprise data files to QBO yet, so you'd have to check that.
TigerBlood wrote.If I set up a Terminal server with Server 2008 R2 SP1 would I be able to access the hosted application from a mac, I don't have any experience with Terminal Services and haven't read the documentation yet. With just the MS software (MS TS server, MS TS client app on Mac) the user experience would be similar to their current experience using remote desktop to access a Windows Workstation.
With additional software you are able to make the application on the terminal server act like it's a local application. I normally use Citrix for this, but many options exist. Tim7139 wrote: Server 2000 and 2003 also have TS Server, but lack application publishing.
Citrix is installed over top of TS. Yep I just wanted to check out the application publishing feature, I know you said it wouldn't work for Macs but just still wanna see how it functions. Does Citrix require Terminal Services or can it be stand alone? If I use a Citrix solution do I need to have licenses for the TS and Citrix? Sorry for the dumb questions I have the same amount of experience with Citrix as I do with TS which is none.
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