Google Workspace
Google, being an company funded almost entirely via advertising revenue, is attempting to kill AdBlockers (with a fun side-effect of potentially ruining the internet) with their new Manifest V3. What is Manifest, you may ask? This has been discussed ad-nauseum elsewhere, but here's the TL;DR; Manifest is
Windows
I work in K12 Education. Student accounts in AD and Google Workspace are automatically provisioned with the help of Classlink's OneSync. Staff accounts on the other hand, are much more difficult to automate, as their are many different positions with different needs. Those have historically been created by
Tidbit
I didn't think it was possible, but Google Workspace's options for controlling permissions regarding Calendars is actually worse than those of Google Drive. Really the only way to get a list of all the calendars for your domain, is to use GAM. Setting up GAM has
Tutorial
The amount of school districts getting absolutely bulldozed by hackers is an unpleasant reality that keeps me awake at night. In no small part due to my insistence, our school district has been on an absolute security rampage this past year. An integral part of a good security posture is
Google Workspace
More accurately, giving end users the ability to do whatever they like, and leaving Administrators with hardly any controls over what is shared and with whom, is a recipe for disaster. Last month (November 2023) it was revealed that a threat actor known as SingularityMD was exploiting misconfigured Google Groups
Docker
Docker is awesome ...and a ton of projects can be spun up in just a few minutes using Docker Compose. Many of these primarily use a Web UI, meaning the entire graphical interface exists within the browser. Unfortunately, most of the time these UI use plain HTTP, which is vulnerable
Proxmox
In the state of Oregon, education institutions with PACE insurance (and many others) are beginning to require not just antivirus, but antivirus with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). We chose to go with Crowdstrike, which, despite having the world's cringiest product names, actually provides a cheap, well-functioning base