installing quickbooks 2010 Premier on a Win 2008 terminal server (32 bit)

Here's how I installed Quickbooks 2010 Premier on a Windows 2008 terminal server:

run "change user /install"

Install Quickbooks normally

When you first run Quickbooks, it asks you to choose a specific edition, but I got this error:

After some research, I tried solution #2 here:

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Articles/SLN40477

This resolved the problem, and I was able to choose a business specific edition.

using combofix in safe mode with command prompt

I was faced with a fakealert virus yesterday that existed in safe mode also, which made cleaning it very difficult. I used the command prompt method I used a couple weeks ago to clean it. Luckily, I was on a network - not sure I would have been able to do this on a stand alone computer. Here were my steps:

[on the virus affected machine]

boot into safe mode with networking

log in as a domain admin

create new local administrator (on the chance that I didn't know the local admin password)

[from another machine in the network that is not infected]

from another machine on the network logged in as a domain admin

go to \\10.0.0.54\c$ (affected computer drive)

create a new folder on the root of C called malware

download newest version of combofix and copy it to \\10.0.0.54\c$\malware

[on the virus affected machine]

reboot into safe mode with command prompt

log in as local administrator

run c:\malware\combofix.exe

You won't be able to install the recovery console, but in the two times I've tried this, it hasn't been a problem.

Google Address Book "Connection to Google is temporarily unavailable"

By default, you get an error about the google address book not being able to sync when you open a Google Apps profile in Outlook. It looks like this:

This is fixed by enabling contact sharing in the Google Apps control panel. I guess this is some kind of global address list from what I'm reading.

Here's how you fix it:

• In the Google Apps control panel, click the Settings tab, then Contacts on the left side
• Select Enable contact sharing.
• Click Save changes.

And when fixed, it should work properly (though I've seen it not work - it makes little sense):