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Happy Friday, Dexperts!

As we wrap up the week, what's one small (or big) DEX win you're celebrating?

Could be a proactive fix that prevented tickets, a dashboard insight that changed priorities, an automation that saved hours, or just smoother employee feedback this week.

Share yours below: no matter how big or small. These stories are gold for all of us.

If you're still fighting fires, we get it. What's one thing you're hoping to tackle next week?

Looking forward to hearing your wins.

When I looked at my phone when I was waking up:

>You requested that we alert you when the forecasted cost associated with your My Monthly Cost Budget budget exceeds $100.00 for the current month. The month forecasted cost associated with this budget is $183,965,812,157.54. You can find additional details below and by accessing the AWS Budgets dashboard.

By the time I disabled access to S3 & Cloudfront in my personal account, and opened a ticket, this finally started being displayed by AWS at https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/support/home?region=us-east-1#/

>Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data >Beginning on July 16 7:38 PM PDT, we began displaying incorrect estimated billing data in the Billing and Cost Management Console. > >For more information on this issue, please refer to the AWS Service Health Dashboard: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Veterans,

This afternoon, we’ve got a solid one lined up: AMA with Leslie Beavers. She is a retired USAF Brigadier General, former Acting Department of Defense Chief Information Officer.

Over 30+ years of uniformed and civilian service, she’s led major IT and cyber initiatives across the DoD.

Come ask her about leadership, digital transformation in government, career transitions, or the future of military tech. Open to all questions.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/nexthink/comments/1ujzsf5/we_are_excited_to_announce_that_we_will_be/

When: Wed July 8 | 4pm EDT

Appreciate everyone who serves/served. Hope to see some good questions from the community.

Hi r/asknetsec,

This afternoon, we’re running an AMA with Leslie Beavers, former Acting DoD Chief Information Officer and Principal Deputy CIO (retired USAF Brig Gen).

Huge portfolio in cybersecurity, information assurance, endpoint visibility, and large-scale digital employee experience (DEX) in defense environments.

Perfect opportunity to ask about real-world enterprise security operations, proactive remediation, moving from reactive to proactive IT, or lessons from managing DoD-scale infrastructure.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/nexthink/comments/1ujzsf5/we_are_excited_to_announce_that_we_will_be/

Time: Wed July 8 | 4pm EDT

Feel free to post questions early. Should be a high-signal thread.

Special thanks to the mods of r/AskNetsec for allowing us to make this announcement.

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We are excited to announce that we will be hosting an AMA with Leslie Beavers right here on r/nexthink!

She'll be here to answer your questions live on the subreddit.

With a career spanning executive leadership in the U.S. Air Force, Fortune 500 organizations, and some of the world's largest technology environments, she brings decades of experience leading digital transformation, cybersecurity, enterprise modernization, technology governance, and large-scale organizational change.

Whether you're interested in enterprise technology strategy, digital employee experience, cybersecurity, AI adoption, executive leadership, or modernizing IT at scale, this is your opportunity to ask questions and learn from someone who has led complex technology initiatives across both the public and private sectors.

Please note that this AMA will be focused on technology, leadership, digital transformation, AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT.

It's a great opportunity to hear real-world perspectives on leading technology at scale and connect with an accomplished industry leader.

Leslie will appear on the Soul of the CIO show on Monday: https://www.youtube.com/@SouloftheCIO

Mark your calendars for July 8, 2026 at 4:00PM ET, and don't wait—go ahead and drop your questions in the comments below!

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Nexthinkers: let's have some fun with a little nostalgia for tech days gone by. Technology has changed at such a fast pace that things that were once common become obsolete in only a few years.

What piece of ancient tech do you secretly miss in 2026?

Could be software, hardware, or some tech interaction that only exists in the past.

• Do you miss the comforting hiss of a dial-up modern?
• Pulling the margins off of paper after it comes off a dot metric printer?
• Physical servers that you can kick when they misbehave?
• Using AOL CDROMS as coasters?
• Maybe a DOS prompt blinking at you?

Drop your answers in the comments below and let's talk about the good old days.

Whether it’s a NOC wall, monitoring dashboard, help desk station, home office, home lab, or the corner of your desk that’s somehow holding everything together, let’s see it.
Drop a screenshot or photo (sanitized, obviously).

Bonus points for:

Excessive monitor setups
Great or terrible cable management
A dashboard you’re proud of
Ancient hardware that’s somehow still alive
A home lab that started small and got out of control
Curious what everyone’s working with these days. 📸

Every environment has that one issue that’s driving everyone crazy:

Random slowdowns
Long logons
Apps hanging for no obvious reason
High CPU with no clear culprit
VPN complaints
Wi-Fi issues
“Everything is slow” tickets

What’s the strangest endpoint issue your team is actively investigating right now?
Feel free to share screenshots (sanitized, of course) of logs, monitoring tools, performance graphs, ticket descriptions, error messages, or anything else that helps tell the story.

Let’s see what everyone is dealing with this week.

In this video, you'll hear from Keysight Technologies about how they are using Flow to help with updating device drivers on all their Dell and HP devices.

How are you using Flow?

We all know the thing. That one thing that kills your flow even when everything else is working.

From tool fatigue and slow app loads to mystery Wi-Fi drops or endless update notifications… what’s been grinding your gears this week?

Bonus: Has anyone found a quick proactive fix or is it still in the “reboot and pray” category?

To all our Dexperts out there, what was your weekly win?

Could be a fix, automation, insight, saved outage, happier users, fewer tickets, whatever. Curious what everyone’s working on. The more specific the better. Tell us your stories!

We'd love to hear your full thoughts on this. What's the balance between automation first and risk/compliance concerns?

Grab your crystal ball and let's make some predictions.

• What do you see as the future of DEX?
• Will AI Make XLAs Obsolete or Essential?
• What's one AI/DEX experiment you're running (or scared to run) right now?

Drop your thoughts in the comments and let's get the conversation started!