The 2009 version of QuickBooks has issued a mid-year upgrade which, unlike most updates, requires a complete upgrade of all databases and all installations. This patch is called “R9″ and is now available for QuickBooks 2009 and Enterprise v.9. It’s been my experience that on many peer-to-peer networks at least one installation requires manual intervention.
QuickBooks users have become so accustomed to the endless automatically installed updates that we
scarcely notice. Most users have just clicked an affirmative response to upgrade and on most computers that will be the end of it. There will be some that one upgrades, and upgrades, and upgrades again. By about the third try, it becomes obvious that it simply isn’t working the way it’s supposed to. If that’s what’s happening to you, just go to http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Default.aspx, and follow the instructions to manually upgrade your installation.
Added 12/18/09: QBs announces that there are major Sales and Use Tax issues with R 9 and now R10. Before you do any Sales and Use Tax reporting, please manually calculate your liability to make sure its correct.
