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I
would speak with Intuit and ask if the app checks whether the user has 'power
user' privs or whether the user simply needs rights in certain areas of the
file
system and/or registry.
Depending on the answer given, determines the approach you then
take.
The
former => user needs to be granted power user privs
The
latter => users need certain privs in the reg and/or file
system
Only
Intuit can really give you this info, altho a file/reg trace at app launch
time
will go some way to helping :)
hth,
neil
Okay, our environment is that all our clients
are
running Windows XP SP2, and our servers are Windows 2003. The
situation
is that our Accounting department uses Quickbooks, and about 70 of our
employees need to use an application that comes with Quickbooks called "QB
Timer". It's free for use for our employees and it integrates with
Quickbooks without requiring a Quickbooks install on each machine.
Now,
the quandry: according to Intuit/Quickbooks, the program requires at
least Power User permissions to install and run. Neither I, nor our
CIO
are willing to give local Power User permissions for these users, as that
opens things up to too many potential problems, but our CFO and COO are
REQUIRING the use of this application, or a similar one that integrates with
Quickbooks. Now, the QBTimer is free, which is good, so that's the
*preferred* app to use. It comes as an exe with a few other files, so
I
used WinInstall LE 2003 on a clean XP SP2 machine to package it into an MSI
file. That worked well, and I can install it/assign it through
GPO
- even if the user doesn't have local Power User privs. However, true
to
form with Intuit products, it won't run if the logged on user doesn't have
local admin or PU privs. If I grant PU privs to the user, it runs
fine. I feel like I am --> <-- this close to getting this done,
but I ran out of ideas to get this to work. I tried looking at the reg
file that was made when I ran WinInstall and gave the users full rights to
the
specific areas in the registry to see if that did anything; which it
didn't.
Does anyone else have any siggestions, or am I
stuck with Intuit's "users must have >= Power User privs" to run that
app?
ANY help or suggestions are GREATLY
appreciated!
--Jason
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