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Enabling Active Directory Authentication in Sitefinity 4.x

One of my current projects at work is to create a website for one of our international offices using Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS.  Our marketing managers in the region will be managing the website’s content and one of the requirements was to allow them to authenticate to the backend using their AD user account.  We’ve used Sitefinity 3.7 in the past, but for this project we are using the latest stable build (4.4 as of this posting) which has updated the way the security settings are implemented.  After a little trial and error, this is how to enable Windows Active Directory authentication with Sitefinity 4.x.
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Mount your center speaker on the cheap

For Christmas this year Santa delivered me a Polk CS2 center speaker for my home theater setup.  The orignial center that came bundled with my Onyko HT-R340 had clearly been overpowered when I upgraded the front channels to Polk R50s earlier in the year.  This led to movie nights where I had to guard the remote, turning up the volume during speaking parts and frantically scrambling to turn it back down during loud scenes when there was a surprise explosion or some gunfire.  The upgrade presented a new problem however, where to place the speaker.

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Don’t have ESPN360 access? There may be hope

Finally!

This past Saturday marks the official* start of the 2008 college football season. Those of you who weren’t watching the 56-3 lashing of Fort Valley St by Valdosta St. in the highly touted Division II match up, that means your season probably officially begins for you on Thursday around 6pm EST. Cable service provides quite the buffet of games for your enjoyment, and for most, the creme of the crop 7:30pm EST showdown between North Carolina State and South Carolina on ESPN.

ESPN360The only problem was the game I needed to see was only being shown on ESPN360, ESPN‘s online video streaming site. This presented quite a problem since ESPN360 isn’t your typical subscription based website where a user can simply sign up. Instead, it is more akin to a premium cable channel where your provider must first agree to pay to carry the service before it is ever offered to the customer.

Unfortunately for me, Bright House Networks, our local cable and internet provider here in Orlando doesn’t have an agreement in place to offer ESPN360. This leaves me stuck without being able to watch my beloved Hurricanes take on Charleston Southern in their season opener on Thursday night.

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