Using the Google Apps Profile API
As Google Apps reseller we develop applications to automate certain tasks in conjunction with Google Apps. For examples you can take a look at our Google Marketplace page. One of our products there is the Sync Shared Contacts tool which synchonizes LDAP/Active Directory entries to Domain Shared Contacts on the Google Servers. But contacts who have a user account for your Apps domain are not shown. Instead the user’s profile is shown. Since profiles and contacts are two different things we needed to add the synchronization for profiles as well. This is possible since Google released the Profile API for Apps Premier, Education and Partner Edition.
SCOM MPs: Nicks and Nags of registry discoveries
For better monitoring of software SOTEC provides management packs for System Center Operations Management (SCOM) from Microsoft. In addition to our own products we also author management packs for existing third party software. However authoring those management packs can be tricky at times.