In our current antiquated Accpac, we are using a shared mapped drive to store some Accpac DLLs for customized reports. Moving forward, we are planning to upgrade to either version 2014 or 2016 of Sage 300. Meanwhile, there has been recent corporate IT security policy that stops the use of all shared folders (due to SMB protocol, and moving all the current shared documents to SharePoint).

Question - must a shared folder be required? Can't we do a full client installation on every user's computer?

Since we can't use shared folders, we can't deploy Sage 300 as a client/server app (ie. Workstation). Web portal/screens/Sage300c are all out as well since they can't do customized screens and reports (We also want to add a Asset Management module from Norming). So, what's left is just the Remote Desktop Services option, which we aren't really keen.

I've been trying to build up justification to stick to the Workstation order. All of our users' computers are Windows 7 (moving to Windows 10 by the end of the year). Perhaps I could somehow propose enabling only SMBv2 or v3 (more secure?), and having the shared folder (shared as "hidden" from the server), and also to use UNC paths instead of an explicit mapped drive.

Comments, suggestions? Thanks!