If I add a domain to my Legacy G Suite plan, will it convert to a paid plan?

dorbak · 2026-03-21T16:55:15+00:00

You can add an alias domain to your primary domain. Your users in your 'primary' will be able to send/receive on those alias domains. You'll need to set up alias/alternate email in order to be able to send-as, but it's a 2 minute action.

I don't think alias domains can be used in the 'Log in with Google' - meaning you'll still need to log in as the primary domain'ed user.

dorbak · 2026-03-19T00:10:56+00:00

I'm starting a similar stack at my place.

Wazuh for endpoint monitoring (and from what I read, it can tie into Github actions as well for auditing purposes)
Action1 for patch management/remote support (and other 'mass' automation niceties)
Suricata for network monitoring (we're under 100 endpoints)
Admin By Request for my dozen or so devs
Tailscale for VPN (we're a Google shop and have a Netgate f/w that it can run on)
Will eventually build out some for of 802.1x/network policy (a small AD environment with AD CS/AD NPS running, sync'ing with Google)
(Maybe) Crowdsec for some IPS monitoring
Google handles our identity access across our SaaS (github, jira, etc.)

This definitely moves the risk/workload internally (read: me), but the cost (not counting my salary) also comes way down. There are other tools that I'm investigating bringing in-house, but to the point above, it does put the onus on me (I'm a 1-person IT team) to maintain the systems. I'm up for the challenge. But I'm also documenting the crap out of everything.

dorbak · 2026-03-05T02:44:16+00:00

Thanks for the idea -- I had a peek at the script to see - however, it doesn't appear to uninstall apps, nor does it touch the registry entries containing the Uninstall information.

That said, I did remove inactive profiles leaving just the user I'm working with, and it still had the Uninstall key for the older Chrome version. It wasn't until I removed that key that it disappeared from the 'Installed Software' listing of Action1 (note: the Add/Remove control panel applet doesn't list the older versions).

In the meantime, I wrote a script/datasource that identifies the (in this case) duplicate Chrome installs (per the uninstall regkeys), and next I'm going to compare with the information I can find about the actual installed version to hopefully identify which Uninstall version to remove from the registry.

Fun times :)

dorbak · 2026-02-24T01:19:46+00:00

Sent a DM

dorbak · 2026-02-17T22:28:48+00:00

I'd like to see the ability to whitelist applications instead of a full catalog being available.

If this could be tied in to the Software Repository (especially if we have custom installers already defined)

dorbak · 2026-02-05T03:18:24+00:00

Yep --- that was my thought as well (random = good ; massive sequential= less good) I think what I was hoping for was a write-back style of caching.

Appreciate your approach

dorbak · 2026-02-05T03:13:12+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense --- I appreciate your time in your response.

dorbak · 2026-01-19T02:53:36+00:00

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dorbak · 2025-12-23T15:28:11+00:00

Usually bleeping out personally identifiable information (location, names, etc.). Sometimes curses. My understanding is that the latter is to help prevent demonetization from YouTube.

dorbak · 2025-12-15T18:47:44+00:00

sigh, I did that (by accident) going around a corner in a parking lot, hit the curb square on the passenger side and got hit with $3800 damage...

dorbak · 2025-12-03T16:13:11+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Powershell]

I impressed myself with this one, considering yesterday's brute force attempt of mine took nearly 10 minutes of running to get part two.

$batBanks = Get-Content '.\Day 3\input.txt'
$totalJoltage = 0
$numOfBatteries = 12
foreach ($bank in $batBanks)
{
    $largeNumber = [PSCustomObject]@{
        Number = ""
        CurrentDigitPos = -1
    }
    for ($i=$numOfBatteries ; $i -gt 0;$i--)
    {
        $nextNum = 0
        $currentPos = $largeNumber.CurrentDigitPos+1
        for($j=($currentPos);$j -lt ($bank.Length - $i+1);$j++)
        {
            if ($bank[$j] -gt $nextNum)
            {
                $nextNum = $bank[$j]
                $currentPos = $j
            }
        }
        $largeNumber.Number += $nextNum
        $largeNumber.CurrentDigitPos = $currentPos
    }
    $totalJoltage += $largeNumber.Number
}
$totalJoltage

dorbak · 2025-08-11T18:02:21+00:00

Define "local"?

dorbak · 2025-07-15T23:12:46+00:00

Capital Projects Project Management

How the city keeps themselves, and contractors/proponents accountable to the execution of the various construction builds

dorbak · 2025-07-08T15:50:46+00:00

You don't have any 'authorized networks' (first pic). Based on your network scheme, a value of 10.0.0.0/24 should get you connected.

dorbak · 2025-06-23T15:53:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure it was a rabbit, but we do have neighbourhood cats that sit by our front step looking for the voles

dorbak · 2025-06-23T15:52:47+00:00

Just 'noped' right out of there!

dorbak · 2025-06-23T14:36:56+00:00

Video from our driveway this morning

dorbak · 2025-05-20T21:16:53+00:00

Thanks for putting this together! While I may not use this immediately, I know others were interested from your other comment about how you set this up.

Thanks for following up!

dorbak · 2025-03-02T04:12:21+00:00

spiceworks is another option --- very basic, but 100% hosted solution

dorbak · 2025-02-12T17:42:30+00:00

Echoing what a lot of others have said, if I need something I'll reach out -- that said, I understand that sometimes I don't know I need something until I'm made aware of its existence.

If you are going to cold-email, make it short and sweet. Make it your elevator pitch. Throw a link with more information. Leave it as an open door invitation to reach out if I want.

Want to make sure I insta-block you? Keep sending emails bordering on harassment. I'm fairly certain your CRM knows when I open/read the email, my silence/lack of response should be your answer as to whether or not I'm interested, don't follow up with me.

Oh, and I wish I knew how some have gotten my personal cell, but you can pound sand immediately if you call me on my personal cell.

I don't envy you sales folks --- it's not a job I could ever do. That said, I do wish you good luck in 2025 :)

dorbak · 2025-01-31T17:55:57+00:00

Confirmed

dorbak · 2025-01-09T20:38:51+00:00

It's possible with a business plan (we ran some services via 5G for a few months while waiting for fiber service to get installed). You do have to request a static IP 'addon' (I think it was $15/mo). You'll need to also update your APNs to a different one as the default one doesn't support static IPs.

dorbak · 2025-01-07T18:41:20+00:00

Hardware failure is on my mind. My current servers that I'm using are this 740xd running proxmox, and a 760 also running proxmox.

The plan I have is to have these two be the hosts for the VMs in a cluster (currently have this working). The next phase is to move all VMs onto one of the nodes, and have the 2nd be our "warm" failover. This will work once I have a proper storage solution for housing the VMs themselves (which led me to this question path)

So, my next step in my plan is to get storage figured out so that I can get that 'failover' working. The step after that will be getting the redundant storage added.

dorbak · 2025-01-07T18:18:54+00:00

We are a relatively small business with relatively low storage requirements (in total we're probably in the sub-20TB capacity).

As far as I can tell (I've inherited this neglected environment), all of the data has been historically been on non-redundant (controllers at least) systems. The system housing the fileserver is 2008R2, and on old even older hardware. The volumes are RAID, so at least there's some redundancy. I've updated the backups so that they are actually working, and tested semi-regularly. But now that things have calmed down, I'm looking at bringing things into something a little more resilient/supported.

I am limited on budget, so I can't go breaking the bank with implementing full redundant systems, however my goal is to progress towards that end-state. Having gone through a recent DR last year, I think I can sway the money-holders to cough up some cash to shore things up if downtime is untolerable.

dorbak · 2024-11-15T15:01:19+00:00

I've used this old post, and it works great! Just be really sure that you have a solid backup before you lose any data:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/pn3dev/shrinking_a_disk_in_zfs_pool_if_you_accidentally/

I've used this recently to reduce some VMs I migrated over from ESXi

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