My wife's health
The last 4 days have been the hardest I have ever experienced. We learned that my wife had experienced a small heart attack at some point in the past weeks. We didn’t know she had. When went in to see...
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Daily Challenge - Combining Emojis with Unicode - 2026-Oct-16
Which invisible Unicode character is placed between separate emojis to combine them into a single graphic? Zero-Width Joiner (ZWJ) Variation Selector-16 (VS16) Byte Order Mark (BOM) The bacon emoji ()...
View ArticleQuestion about Users logging into Portal after Initial setup
I’ve gone through the settings and have decided that I am ready for my users to start placing tickets through the portal. For the purposes of testing, I have only given the Portal information to 2...
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It's Read/Only Friday! 16 October, 2026
It’s Another Read/Only Friday! Yay! It’s Here! I’m excited, if you can’t tell, but it’s not because I’m working from home at the moment. It’s because the week is over and I think I might be able to...
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🏆 When the power goes down, the network doesn’t have to
The New York Times’ Wirecutter put hundreds of UPS systems under consideration, evaluating criteria including AVR, surge protection, battery runtime, user-replaceable batteries and power management...
View ArticleChoosing a suitable IT career and have sufficient networking skills.
I need advice on interrelationship of IT career and the commercial hardware server. I have CompTIA Network+ certification as I want to pursue a new career and I am specifically interested in working...
View ArticleHow come admin salaries are so low?
Is this as simple as supply and demand? 8 posts - 5 participants Read full topic
View ArticleWould you fire a client who wanted MFA but refused to do it as the Owner?
I had someone approach me to give them an IAM security audit and then fix the gaps, the most obvious being they didn’t use MFA except on password resets. He only wanted employees and managers to use...
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Snap! -- Shrinking Moon, Scam Documentary, Keyboard PC
Welcome to today’s edition of the Spiceworks Snap! It’s your daily dose of security and tech news, in brief, along with a mix of other odd or interesting things that might come up. We’re glad you...
View ArticleHelp with re-deploying an application with GPO
An agent application (RMM Agent) was deployed to 150+ AD Joined endpoints some time ago; it successfully deployed on majority of workstations; while several failed. I Updated the GPO to re-deploy the...
View ArticleOh Microsoft, why must you tease us
Walked in this morning. Got my coffee in the MIL skull mug. Answered the Daily correctly. As I lean back to a Read-Only Friday, the Sales Manager literally runs to my door, waits for permission to...
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Keepin’ it Classy at the Summit: Sean Dahlberg Emerges a Pure Cap Legend!
We are thrilled to announce a truly epic addition to the Pure Capsaicin ranks! Please join us in celebrating the legendary @Sean-Spiceworks for ascending to the absolute pinnacle of pepper levels in...
View Article"The Big Grocery"
This week I got a tidy bonus along with my regular paycheck, so I figured I would stock up the shelves in the house, as I was running pretty low on some essential items. Nothing major like stocking up...
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Serious question: What's wrong with New Outlook?
I’ve seen quite a few complaints about New Outlook over the years, but I’ve seen multiple complaints about it just today, and it has me curious. What are your problems with it? As someone who’s spent...
View ArticleSpiceworks Maintenance on Saturday, October 24, 2026 - Cloud Help Desk,...
Starting at approximately 07:00 AM CDT (12:00 UTC) on Saturday, October 24, 2026, we will perform scheduled maintenance on Spiceworks infrastructure. We expect the maintenance to last up to two (2)...
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Stupid Friday ?'s | 10/16/26
Happy Friday! Already deep into October. Where does the time go? Starting to get cold here, might be carving a pumpkin with my son in the next week or so. That should be an interesting experience for...
View ArticleIf your team has every skill it needs, what still stops it from delivering?
In most workplaces, people are grouped by their roles. Designers work with designers, developers with developers, and testers with testers. So even to deliver one feature, work has to pass through...
View ArticleRandom Ramble: AI Assisted Decomps and an Alternate Reality of 100% Bespoke...
Howdy, folks! Something that’s been on my mind, and in many of my feeds lately, is the idea of taking proprietary or closed-source software, decompiling it, and using AI assistance to reverse engineer...
View ArticleHow does incident response actually work in your data center?
Trying to understand how different teams handle the real day-to-day: What’s your triage process when something critical breaks? What slows it down most? Do you do postmortems after incidents? What...
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Spark! Pro series - 16th October 2026
Today in History: October 16, 1758 On this day in 1758, Noah Webster was born. He grew up to become the American lexicographer whose An American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828,...
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