Unofficial Spiceworks

Yesterday I reviewed the latest Spiceworks 5.0 beta drop, but at the time could not get the active directory integration for the people view working.

It wasn’t the beta’s fault it didn’t work I needed to use user@domain.local rather than domain\user simple fix and once changed it was up and running within 2 minutes with all my active directory users imported. Read my community discussion on this if you get stuck.

First off in some of I have omitted names and some details. The information was there just to be safe and to protect the ID of people I have covered it up.

Once you have the active directory settings correct and it syncs you will instantly start to see how the people view will help you.

If you already use the department field for user’s Spiceworks will recognise this and spilt your user’s up automatically for you, if you don’t everyone will just be put into the “no department” group for you to sort out if you so wish to do so.

The look and feel is no different from my last review for the people view but it feels so much better having all my user’s in there, I have some data to start looking at and playing with.

Although at the moment it doesn’t sync these changes back to active directory (it should do in the next beta drop) it’s still a great insight into just what you will be able to do with it in the future.

That’s about all I have to say about it for now, as it grows ill continue to let you know what the changes are and how you can use it to make your day easier.

Links

• 5.0 Beta IV Build Now Available (5.0.55210)
• See All 5.0′s “Next-Frontier” Features Here
• 5.0 Test Plan
• 5.0 Testing Guidelines

Reviews

• Beta 1
• Beta 2
• Beta 3
• Beta 4