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Fix! Portainer Published Ports Points to 0.0.0.0

I found this one today! In our Portainer instance, our Docker images and stacks that have external ports all point to 0.0.0.0:[port]. When you click on it, it goes nowhere (of course).

The fix? In the menu on the left, select Environment-related and then Environments. Select the environment you’re working with, and in the main window where it asks for Public IP put the IP of the host (192.168.x.x, etc.).

Okta Verify Delay or Loop on VPN?

We are finally moving towards implementing Okta FastPass in our Okta Identity Engine environment and have begun testing internally. A very early bug we have encountered is that when on our “VPN” (Twingate), the prompt for authentication hangs and takes several seconds to happen.

Digging through Okta Verify logs on the device yielded nothing and after searching around and searching deeper, I found an article on Okta’s support site that yielded the answer – we need to whitelist the domain authenticatorlocalprod.com in our VPN, specifically because that domain gets flagged in the DNS Rebind feature. Once we whitelisted the domain, Okta Verify prompts came through immediately.

Getting Started with Google Gemini

We’ve begun rolling out Gemini and it’s been moving quickly in terms of updates and rollout. Here are our current settings that are letting users use it. Make sure your legal and compliance teams approve first!

Apps

User Access

Make sure you have a Gemini license, or your data may be used to train models

Service Status

Turn it on for OUs or just groups

Google Groups – Emails are Bouncing

I’ve encountered this error in a few circumstances – users in Google Groups will have a red triangle and the text “Emails are Bouncing” that stops them from receiving any Google Group emails – definitely not good! I’ve seen this when former employees’ accounts are deactivated but not removed from Google Groups and then re-hired or activated later.

The fix is either remove and re-add them to their Google Group via GAM OR to have the employee go to groups.google.com, click the gear icon in the upper right, and click Global Settings.

From there, they should see under “Bounce Status” that their email is flagged as bouncing and a link that says “Resend request to recheck status” or something like that. After that, they’ll see a message that says “your email is not flagged as bouncing”. That’s it!

Bypass / Remove Windows Evaluation Restart

I ran into this one recently on a VM I run for Windows – I let the evaluation license expire but couldn’t recreate a new VM.

Even though I am logged in with an administor account, I do not have access to disable the service that checks and reboots the computer. To disable this service, you can do the following:

  1. Download PsExec tools from Microsoft site here
  2. After downloading, extract the files to any folder
  3. open cmd and Run as administrator
  4. cd to the folder path
  5. execute psexec -i -s cmd.exe
  6. This will open another cmd prompt as shown below :

7. Now type whoami to confirm you are the system (as shown below)

Type services.msc as shown above

9. This will open services and now you can navigate to Windows License Monitoring Service and disable it

10. Restart the VM or computer and the service will be disabled, won’t start, and your machine will be good to go!