Intuit has started pushing out the Release 4 update to the QuickBooks 2017 (desktop) product line. This release includes updates, improvements and fixes to Pro, Premier, Enterprise and Accountant versions of QuickBooks desktop software. The manual update downloads are available from the Intuit QuickBooks Downloads and Updates website.
Among these are a number of updates to Bank Feeds, support for Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 (Service Pack 1), partial payments for E-payments on the Intuit Payments site, 1099-Misc E-filing using Tax1099.com, and enhancements to scheduled reports.
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I know that many users of Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 had real issues when they found out that QuickBooks 2017 wasn't going to run under that particular server OS because QuickBooks wouldn't recognize it as a supported server OS when attempting to install. Those problems should now be resolved with this latest update.
Another issue resolved by this release dealt with email-related problems when QuickBooks could not connect to the email server when emailing using web mail, most commonly a Yahoo email address. When using web mail, after entering your email password, users were getting errors ranging from 'couldn't connect to email service', to 'unable to send your form' messages. This issue has reportedly been resolved in this latest release update to QuickBooks 2017.
When scheduled reports was first released there were a lot of issues associated with how it had to be 'run', limitations in the QuickBooks environment, and requirements for Windows full-administrator permissions, many of these have now been resolved.
Should you update?
My advice is to almost always wait at least a couple of weeks to see if there are going to be any issues or bugs which arise from the update; however, since some of these issues have already been holding people back from updating, have created problems when attempting to update, or have resulted in features not working properly after updating, you may want to go ahead and update if you are, or have, experienced any of these problems.
Best of luck in whatever you decide to do, and stay in touch, let us know your experience if you do decide to update by posting a comment below.