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ITIL v5: Strategy and Transformation modules are live

ITIL v5: Strategy and Transformation modules are live

IT leaders waiting to see the full shape of ITIL v5 now have another major piece of the picture. On 9 April 2026, PeopleCert — the owner of the ITIL framework —...

Plugin or configuration? A GLPI decision tree

Plugin or configuration? A GLPI decision tree

An IT manager sends a plugin RFP to three vendors. All three quote. Six months later the plugin is delivered — and the original problem is still there. The repo...

Auto-close tickets with GLPI

Auto-close tickets with GLPI

Every service desk tool has a "close tickets automatically after N days" feature, and GLPI is no exception. Configuring it takes five minutes. The harder questi...

Empty URL in email notifications with GLPI

Empty URL in email notifications with GLPI

You've set up notifications, test emails arrive, everything looks good — except the link to the ticket is missing. Users get "Ticket URL: " followed by nothing....

Setting up GLPI cron on Linux

Setting up GLPI cron on Linux

GLPI ships with a pseudo-cron that runs its Automatic Actions (notifications, CI updates, data purges, inventory processing) on every page view. It works fine o...

GLPI is running. Recording, or governing?

GLPI is running. Recording, or governing?

GLPI is in production. Tickets get created, notifications fire, the dashboard is green. Here's a simple test: open your last ten change tickets. Can you tell, w...

GLPI maximum upload filesize

GLPI maximum upload filesize

Users hit "the file is too big" when attaching screenshots, invoices, or inventory exports to tickets. Like any PHP application, GLPI inherits PHP's default upl...

GLPI notifications with Office 365

GLPI notifications with Office 365

Important: Microsoft disabled Basic Authentication for Exchange Online in October 2022. Username + password with IMAP/SMTP no longer works against Microsoft 365...

GLPI notifications with Gmail

GLPI notifications with Gmail

GLPI uses a mailbox to receive emails that become tickets (the mailgate receiver) and an SMTP host to send notifications back out. Gmail can do both — but the s...

How to use GLPI to automate your service desk processes

How to use GLPI to automate your service desk processes

Most service desks automate the wrong things. They chase ticket creation speed or AI auto-responders while the real drag — tickets bouncing between agents, esca...

Backing up GLPI: files, MariaDB database, and cron-driven automation

Backing up GLPI: files, MariaDB database, and cron-driven automation

GLPI (Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique) holds your asset register, tickets, and configuration baseline — the kind of data you can't afford to lose. A wor...

GLPI 11.0.6 critical security update — what to upgrade

GLPI 11.0.6 critical security update — what to upgrade

On March 3, 2026, the GLPI project released security versions GLPI 11.0.6 and GLPI 10.0.24. Both address six vulnerabilities – one critical, three high-severity...

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