Comments on: Access QuickBooks from a Windows Service (such as Apache)

By: Lina

Lina — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:53:24 +0000

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By: Lina

Lina — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:48:27 +0000

I m getting “Could not start QB” while accessing it from windows service.

I tried ur solution but der is no any file like “qbXMLRP2e.exe” under access folder.

Thank u..

By: Matthew Steven Kelly

Matthew Steven Kelly — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:02:33 +0000

As for the intuit.com post, I think they want everyone to move to the Web Connector: http://marketplace.intuit.com/webconnector/, for probably good reasons such as it being more secure and reliable than a COM service connection.

By: Matthew Steven Kelly

Matthew Steven Kelly — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:41:44 +0000

@Molson: I suppose the account running Apache would actually count as the user session as Quickbooks doesn’t really know what user is logged into the machine, only which user is trying to authenticate to it. For example, you could even set your Windows login account to run apache and Quickbooks would treat your application as if you were the one authenticating to it.

When running with the apache service as the authenticator you do not have to be logged into the machine for integration to work. You can simple boot the machine, and it will work (With all the other caveats as it must be in Multi-user mode etc). You just have to grant the application settings permissions after attempting to connect to QB the first time.

By: Molson

Molson — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:41:14 +0000

Hi, I’ve been dealing with situations like this a bit too (for years).
I’m curious if you have to have a user session for that to work, or is that what you are configuring Apache to do?

I’ve read that you can’t have quickbooks open, even to integrate with, if it’s not in a user session (see second post here: https://idnforums.intuit.com/messageview.aspx?catid=7&threadid=8614)

If you boot the machine and don’t log in with anyone, does the integration work?

Thanks, Molson.

By: Lenny Markus

Lenny Markus — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:31:13 +0000

Thank you soooooo much!!!
Perfect detailed instructions.