Mindfulness Monday For 10/19: The View from Outside the Server Room
Mindfulness Monday: The View from Outside the Server Room In IT, we spend most of our lives standing inches away from problems. A blinking cursor. A frozen console. A server room that feels more like...
View ArticleSnap! -- Mission to Mars, Ancient Magic 8-Ball, Airless Tires
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 ArticleEvaluating your Microsoft and Active Directory dependencies
Rippling How to Reduce Active Directory Dependency Without a Risky Migration Learn why hybrid Active Directory sticks around, how to map dependencies, and how IT teams can shift to a cloud-first...
View ArticleDevil Ducks, 2027 calendars and t-shirts for SpiceWorld oh my!
We’ve got a trifecta of Spiceworks goodness brewing: a Devil Duck contest (all you gotta do is vote and you could win one of our LEGO-inspired server rooms), the 2027 Eaton desk calendar request, and...
View ArticleFree Tools for Soc Analyst
When I worked Senior Soc Analyst for an msp company. I didn’t have tools that would helped me in my career so I had to do research. Some tools listed here, I used at work because it was free and I was...
View ArticleUsb xhci object name already exists
hi all, in device manager i get this error on two of the usb controllers usb xhci compliant host controller windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware (code 37) object name already...
View ArticleWhat's been your biggest blocker in 2026?
Most annual roadmaps typically start with ambitious goals and milestones, but in the real world, progress often hits a wall sooner or later. Between firefighting ticket queues and keeping legacy...
View ArticleCopilot disapppearing chat
Hi all, I’ve got a weird issue which (thankfully sofar) seems to be affecting just me within our company. We use copilot business and over the past week or two I regularly have an issue where a big...
View ArticleResearch: 72% of Gen Z lack confidence to network professionally (IT Data...
According to LinkedIn Research, which recently surveyed 18,000 professionals of all ages, “Gen Z feels disconnected from the people that could help them in their careers.” Much of this is due to...
View ArticleSpark! Pro-series 19th October 2026
Hello Dear Friends and welcome to another Monday. As the weather turns autumnal, scarves and gloves are being dusted off and people are wondering if those boots will last another winter. Regardless of...
View ArticleSave Point! - 2026.10.19
Welcome back everyone. I hope your weekend went well and you got to play all the games you wanted to. I played some Wardogs and a little bit of Over the Hill. I went and got brunch at the Cheesecake...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleDaily 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...
View ArticleIt'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...
View Article🏆 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?
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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...
View ArticleSnap! -- 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...
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