Windows – Install Silently CCleaner without Chrome

This has been included in the stable release of Chrome 5.x as of May 2010. It works similar to Internet Explorer in that "Intranet" URLs (without dots in the address) will attempt single sign-on if requested by the server.

To enable passthrough for other domains, you need to run Chrome with an extra command line parameter:

chrome.exe --auth-server-whitelist="*example.com,*foobar.com,*baz"

Background

According to the Google Issues list for Chromium, this issue was reported in Sep 2008. The NTLM passthrough feature was apparently given to the Google Summer of Code team. It sounds like it will be worked on in Summer 2009 at the Google Summer of Code.

This is good news, and will hopefully bring some stature to Chrome's image in the enterprise. The intranet is so prevalent, and to adopt a browser is difficult without having this feature.

Just an idea, but maybe a batch script in a scheduled task to automagically login as a maintenance user to run the install?

• Write the login credentials to the Registry (see KB315231)
• Add another script to Startup to clear out the credentials and launch the AutoIt enhanced install
• Reboot
• Profit!

It's crazy enough that it just might work.