How to Setup Firefox to use Windows Authentication

  If you have an ASP.NET application that is behind an IIS Web Server and it configured to use Windows authentication or what they called trusted login. Typically you can download a plugin for Firefox and it will help you perform windows authentication automatically. What if you are not allowed install any plugin or don’t want to use any plugin. When you try to connect to a ASP.NET application via Windows authentication it will display they following error message:…

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How to extract files from a .msi file using the Windows command line

Every once in a while I need to extract the content of a .msi file in order to customize a deployment for a particular network environment. Sometimes initializing the .msi installer will temporarily extract the files into C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp, but those files are removed once the installer exits. To extract files from a .msi file at the command line, type: msiexec /a PathToMSIFile /qb TARGETDIR=DirectoryToExtractTo For example, to extract files from f:\zenworks\zfdagent.msi into c:\zfd701 you would type:…

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