Some Notes on the Machines

The QuickBooks File Doctor now takes care of Windows networking changes.

The QuickBooks File Doctor now takes care of Windows Firewall.

Right here:

https://downloads.quickbooks.com/app/qbdt/products

If you are getting persistent H303/H505 errors or the like, check the .ND file corresponding to the QuickBooks database you are trying to load. If it has an IPv6 address within, that’s probably the problem, we need to set IPv4 as dominant on the server:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2533454/resolving-internet-connectivity-issues-after-world-ipv6-launch-june-6

Reboot is required before the setting takes effect.

Deep in this page:

https://community.intuit.com/articles/1502150-how-to-fix-error-h101-h202-h303-or-h505-when-opening-your-company-file-in-quickbooks-desktop#detailscollapse4

we have a strange piece of input stated as being specifically and only to Server 2012 R2, to prevent H202 errors and the like. We are to do the following:

1. Stop the Base Filtering Engine in services.msc
2. Perform a Scan in the QuickBooks Database Server Manager, after making sure that appropriate folder(s) are selected
3. Start the Base Filtering Engine in services.msc

This one reinstalls, repairs, and refreshes a wide variety of bits which QuickBooks uses. Helps with both installs and malfunctions.

community.intuit.com/articles/1501884-fix-common-quickbooks-desktop-installation-errors-with-the-qbinstall-tool

This is a tool from QuickBooks, new to me, which can fix a lot of different Windows library and other issues, to be used sometimes when QuickBooks fails to install.

https://community.intuit.com/articles/1019962-fix-common-installation-errors-using-the-qbinstall-tool

Reportedly in February 2016, Microsoft began to automatically upgrade all Office 365 customers to version 2016. One has to search for the words “February” and “automatic” in the page below to see it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3097292

Among many others, this can cause major problems for users of QuickBooks of all versions before 2016; all integration with Excel fails, and we can expect other problems (e.g., Outlook integration) as well. There is no easy revert procedure, we just have this:

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/172/t/409681

There is a method to prevent the upgrade via Group Policy:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3097292

Here is a great web site for these:

http://www.qtools.com/qbupdates.htm

You may see error “-6175, 0”; connectivity or security errors may pop up; but definitively you will notice that the “Quickbooks database service” will not start.

The solution given by a QuickBooks tech just now, is to change the user under which the database service runs, from the special QuickBooksDBxx service user, to the Local System. I asked if there was any reason not to do this under any circumstances, and he said there is not. This seems to make QuickBooks as a whole run better. It is needful to give “SYSTEM” full rights to any folder containing QuickBooks files.