Appreciate it!!!!!!!

Not only is it an annoyance, it's blocking legitimate usage.  THIS IS ALSO POPPING UP WHEN A REGISTERED PROADVISOR LOGS ON TO A CLIENT ACCOUNT IN AN ACCOUNTANT'S COPY TO WHICH HE/SHE HAS BEEN ALREADY GRANTED ACCESS THRU INTUIT'S OWN SERVERS. Read: I am angry about this happening when logging on with the client's password in an accountant copy.  Intuit, if you read this, you are so concerned about someone using QuickBooks without a license, that you are, increasingly so year-after-year, making your product more and more and more difficult to use for legitmate users.

I, for one, am tired of it. I pay well over $1,000/year for my license to your products.  My clients pay you for their own licenses. Then, this year, I get a legitimate accountants copy thru your servers, having been granted access with associated passwords, and I am required to log on to an intuit account to use it. If I attempt toi use MY account, I get a message that QuickBooks has sent an email rrequesting that they approve my access -- AGAIN, since they ALREADY granted me access. The folowing message is generated: 

After setting up the rules did you have any problems connecting to the QB server in order to email out forms?  I set up the rule yesterday following your screen shots and today I can't email forms, everything within QB which requires me to connect is blocked, so thinking this has to do with the outgoing rule though not sure since I'm not that technical.  :(

I am shocked that this thread is still going on. I have been working with Intuit Software for 10 years as an IT / Software Engineer and this has been one of the largest mistakes made by Intuit. Customers already feel insecure about their own employees having access to their information but now Intuit wants to force access upon its customers. It doesn't help that when my customers call Intuit for support, they get inexperienced Customer Support "professionals" that barely speak any English which raises a whole separate level of distrust for Intuit.

This policy is absurd and I have been asked a number of times now to find different software that I can migrate their data to. I should be excited for the work but as someone who uses QuickBooks myself, this is an utter disappointment and embarrassment. I can't even open QuickBooks without internet or my software crashes and has caused data corruption at least twice in the past week.

Congrats, Intuit, on forcing a policy that will cause a huge loss in business. Especially with all the hacks going around in the news on large companies that you don't rank anywhere near (eg SolarWinds).

I can only echo, reinforce, and validate all of the anger already expressed in this thread. I, for one, will never allow my QuickBooks software to ever connect to the Internet *ever* again. Unfortunately, to do this, you will need to muck around with Windows Firewall.

In my case, I still need my desktop software to talk to my local network server where the file is hosted. Here are the firewall settings that work for me:

Test post

Alt F4 does not work!

I have an account, I have it set to not ask for 90 days, all the integrated apps are turned off, there are no employees. EVERY TIME it tells me to sign in with my Intuit account!!!!

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@almon wrote:

Solution to close Intuit Account window without logging on:

 

Use the Alt-F4 key combination and then click the Cancel button.

 

 

 

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@michael viser I am sending invoices and reports by email all the time, from within QB.

If you block just port 443 in the firewall it should be sweet

I do not have Intuit server login anymore, just a local offline account login... I can live with that every now and again.

Regards

Mike

@Htrumpore The only way around this is to (at your firewall) block the two Quickbooks exe files from outgoing port 443 traffic 

Instructions are many posts up on this thread.

@Michael viser I just remembered... if your email is a Gsuite Google mail you may need to go in there and allow 'insecure' applications to allow Quickbooks to send mail from inside the application.

Got it!  Appreciate the help!!  :)

This was the culprit and once I completed this step, everything resumed normally. :)

I may have an answer-Go to Edit>Preferences>Service Connection>Company Preferences and select:

"Automatically connect without asking for password."

Let me know

Note: Make sure you go to Company>My Company and sign out.

As they say in New Zealand... "Yeah, right"
If only it was so simple AndyTJ we would not have had 9 pages of thread on this.....

(unless QB sneaked an update on us...)

Have you tried and tested this?

The firewall block option definitely works.

Well it looks like you have jumped through a lot of hoops to stop this menacing request from QuickBooks. Changing the Windows Firewall is never a good idea anyway. I have been using my posted solution for the last few weeks, like I said I have signed out of my account, and the program has not asked me to sign in again. My question to you Flyingkiwi is: Have you tried it?

This is not the quickbook company file login this is an intuit login separate of the company file. They/we are not complaining about having to login as admin to access the local company file we are complaining about the new 2021 add on feature that requires you to login to the cloud intuit account after accessing the company file as seen in attachment. We don't want quickbooks or intuit to have access to anything. If you can't fix this what port in the firewall can we turn off to prevent it from communicating outbound anything.

I am talking about the section in Company>My Company in the far right hand corner where it says "sign in".

(Not where it asks you to, login as admin to access the local company file, I have done that and told it not to ask me for another 90 days.) This is the section where, up until a couple of weeks ago (until I did what I said in my first post), would tell me I had to sign in every time I started QuickBooks. I think we are talking about two different things.

Hi there, Mrylant89.

Thanks for posting here in the Community and thank you for clarifying. Because this issue requires an agent to look into your account to enable or disable settings, I would recommend reaching out to our support team. They can guide you through the process click-by-click. To reach them, follow these steps:

1. Open QuickBooks.
2. Go to Help, then select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
3. Select Contact Us.
4. Give a brief description of your issue, then select Let's talk and then choose a way to connect.

If you have any other questions, feel free to post here anytime. Thanks and I hope your day is a good one. 

@Mrylant89 Block TCP port 443 on outgoing connections from the two quickbooks .exe files (QBW32.exe and your version exe file) in Widows Defender Firewall, Advanced Settings / Outbound Rules.

@AndyTJ I disabled my firewall and tested and still had the dreaded login window reappear.
Even after your settings in preference.

It is good that it somehow works for you.

By blocking outgoing TCP port 443 on the two QB executables we find that QB does not ask to log in to an Intuit account anymore. 

We do not want our local files calling home to Intuit. My data is safe on my computer. I can log in locally, but do not want or need an Intuit account and login to keep my data safe (from myself????)

As for me, this workaround works. I can still install program updates if needed, either automatically, or manually via the menu item under Help.

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@Nick_M wrote:

Hi there, Mrylant89.

 

Thanks for posting here in the Community and thank you for clarifying. Because this issue requires an agent to look into your account to enable or disable settings, I would recommend reaching out to our support team. They can guide you through the process click-by-click. To reach them, follow these steps:

1. Open QuickBooks.
2. Go to Help, then select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
3. Select Contact Us.
4. Give a brief description of your issue, then select Let's talk and then choose a way to connect.

If you have any other questions, feel free to post here anytime. Thanks and I hope your day is a good one. 

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Hahahaaaa, Another employee jumping in (seemingly) without reading or understanding the thread.
Good luck @Mrylant89 if you try Nick's answer, but please let us know how you get on. We have been fighting Intuit on this for almost a year.

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@AndyTJ wrote:

I am talking about the section in Company>My Company in the far right hand corner where it says "sign in".

(Not where it asks you to, login as admin to access the local company file, I have done that and told it not to ask me for another 90 days.) This is the section where, up until a couple of weeks ago (until I did what I said in my first post), would tell me I had to sign in every time I started QuickBooks. I think we are talking about two different things.

 

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What version of Quickbooks Desktop are you using Andy? I am on QB Premiere Non Profit 2021 Release 4P

Hi Flyingkiwi, I am using Quickbooks Desktop Pro 2020 R10P (V30.0D R10 12/11/2020--RB02-/23/2021)

I also want to say that I TOTALLY AGREE WITH ALL OF YOU. I am so sick of Intuit  and other software companies constantly trying to control the way we use our PURCHASED PROGARMS. If we don't want to have our personal files seen by them they should respect that and stop sneaking around trying to find ways to steal our private information. But you know what, it's only getting worse instead of better. So don't let up people, keep letting them know how we feel, maybe someday they might get it.  Andy