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Oct 21, 2025

AWS Outage Chaos

So… yesterday AWS decided to take a surprise nap, and suddenly half the internet panicked. Fortnite froze mid-match, my Ring camera was streaming static like a horror movie, and alexa just stared at me. Anyone else feel personally victimized? 

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Oct 14, 2025

VPN trouble while using OpenVPN Connect

I’ve been having trouble configuring VPN on iOS devices at work using the OpenVPN Connect app. I have already pushed the app on the device and configured the VPN. But upon doing it, the devices are unable to connect to the VPN through the app, as there is no toggle available to activate the VPN. Does anyone know a fix for this? 

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Oct 12, 2025

Looking for a web server to host our internal dashboards. Any suggestions?

Hey folks, Our IT team’s working on setting up a few internal dashboards for device monitoring and license tracking. We don’t really need anything fancy or cloud-heavy — just something reliable, easy to configure, and secure enough to handle internal traffic. Someone suggested Apache HTTP Server, but I’ve never used it before. Can it actually…

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Oct 05, 2025

Any filtering mechanisms to authenticate network access on managed devices?

Hey’ll, We’re gearing up for our annual school event next week, and we’ve deployed a batch of managed devices across our multiple campuses. The challenge is, we don’t want random attendees or guests connecting to the internet on these devices. Ideally, only our students and faculty should get internet access. We're considering implementing a strict…

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Oct 04, 2025

How does ‘Ping’ Test Website Connectivity?

Hello, I’m troubleshooting some connectivity issues with a few remote devices and wanted to verify if our websites are reachable. We have our own websites running algorithms on these remote devices, and I want to check their connectivity. I searched online and saw the ping command might help. Could someone explain how to use it…

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Mar 15, 2025

Allow non-admins to disable automatically joining a network

Hey, Our organization manages macOS devices, and users often experience their devices automatically connecting to previously saved networks due to auto-join being enabled. However, when they attempt to disable auto-join, it requires admin privileges. Is there a way to let non-admin users control this setting without IT intervention? Any insights would be appreciated!