Monday, September 21, 2009

Windows Integrated Authentication in Firefox

We are using intensively SharePoint and we are not like use IE (Internet Explore) to access it.

We like access using Firefox, but all time it requests us the Windows Authentication.

Could we integrate Windows Authentication in Firefox? the answer is yes, Firefox has its configuration page some hide. but we will use to it.

In address bar enter about:config

Click I’ll be careful, I promise! in This might void your warranty! page


In filter enter network.automatic

Double click network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

And enter the URL for which you like to enable integrated Authentication. In order to enter multiple URLs, separate them by commas.

Click OK

And that is it

Next time the Firefox will not request your account

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Windows 7 will be available in...

The official Windows blog gives the GA (General Availability) date for Windows 7, this OS will be come the successor of Vista.

And the date for it is:

October 22nd.


The most interesting features for this OS is the Virtualization tool with fetures similar to Citrix, when the applications of Virtual machines could be executed as Windows in Real Machine Desktop

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bing.com is live...

Bing the new search engine of Microsoft is now live... and really it will become the substitute of live search...

At the moment the results are very fast and the information more useful, a little more organize that google.

Some nice features are:

  • History of search in left panel

  • History image in left panel for image search

  • The background image will change every day

  • It will be define version for USA and beta for rest of world


Microsoft Search Engine

Friday, March 13, 2009

How generate a full user-mode dump file in Windows 2008

Dr. Watson is not included in Windows 2008. Dr. Watson was the default debugger in older Windows operating systems. The replacement for Dr. Watson is Problem Reports and Solutions.

One alternative is Debugging Tools for Windows, it has support for Windows x86 and x64 versions (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx)

The steps to registry the tool in Windows x86 are:

1) Install the Debugging Tools for Windows your machine, usually is installed in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows, and you can select other location such as C:\debuggers
2) Open the Registry Editor, from run program using regedit command
3) Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
4) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5) Type Debugger, and then press ENTER.
6) Right-click Debugger, and then click Modify.
7) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type C:\debuggers\ntsd -p %ld -c ".dump /f /u c:\tmp\mydump.dmp;q", and then click OK.
8 ) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
9) Type Auto, and then press ENTER.
10) Right-click Auto, and then click Modify.
11) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type 1, and then click OK.
12) Exit Registry Editor.

Registring Debugging Tools for Windows x86

The steps to registry the tool in Windows x64 are:

1) Install the Debugging Tools for Windows your machine, usually is installed in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows, and you can select other location such as C:\debuggers
2) Open the Registry Editor, from run program using regedit command
3) Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
4) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5) Type Debugger, and then press ENTER.
6) Right-click Debugger, and then click Modify.
7) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type C:\debuggers\ntsd -p %ld -c ".dump /f /u c:\tmp\mydump.dmp;q", and then click OK.
8 ) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
9) Type Auto, and then press ENTER.
10) Right-click Auto, and then click Modify.
11) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type 1, and then click OK.
12) Exit Registry Editor.

Registring Debugging tools for Windows in x64 machine