Unofficial Spiceworks

Spiceworks 5.3 has left beta and RC and is now ready for you to download and start using!

The key changes are:
20% Jump in Performance – By updating ruby and making some code changes there is around a 20% performance increase for everyone!
New Purchasing Nav – The purchasing section has its own tab along the nav making it easier to track and manage everything you buy
Volume License Tracking – While this was in 5.2 there have been some major improvements to how it works and what software you can track
Cloud Services Tracking – More alerting, nicer interface, better domain management and the ability to add notes and attachments
Manage Microsoft Office 365 – Like Google Apps you can now manage office 365 from within Spiceworks
Help Desk Admin Tools – Some changes to the helpdesk new ticket form, more ticket anywhere commands and better merging
Windows Intune Plugin – you can receive Intune alert notifications right in the Spiceworks Helpdesk
Updated UPS Alerting – now see what's up and what's down in the Eaton UPS Supervisor dashboard widget

As well as a huge number of bug fixes! Make sure you grab it now from http://oots.be/spiceworks its worth it!
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Kick off the New Year right with Spiceworks 5.3!
Join 1,500,000 IT professionals and download Spiceworks' free network management software for your network monitoring, network troubleshooting, network reporting and help desk tracking.

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There is still time for you get to an extra £50 off the “Super Duper Early Bird SpiceWorld Attendee” rate for SpiceWorld London 2012 currently priced at £199.00.

SpiceWorld has been running in Austin, Texas for 4 years and keeps getting bigger, with the opening of Spiceworks Europe http://oots.be/2z3 not long ago they have decided to come to the UK to hold what’s set to be a great event for all IT Pros.

At the event you will get to learn all the latest IT best practices, tools and trends. Share your thoughts on all sorts of IT topics with other IT pros like you and get advice on how / what you can do better. You also get to meet Spiceworks employees, IT vendors from companies like HP and Microsoft. Then as like in the US there is a killer party in the evening!

Checkout more information below, and make sure you sign up today, this offer is going quick!

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SpiceWorld London 2012 – IT User Conference
Learn, Share, and Meet with IT Pros at the Spiceworks IT Conference 2012 in London, UK

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With this new release there are 35 new bug fixes ( http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/174142-spiceworks-5-3-release-notes-preview ) and two new features.

# Purchasing Update – All of the purchasing bits and bobs have been moved into their own tab called well purchasing, this is designed to make it easier for you to find all the fancy new functionality to make your job easier. You can request, view and update quotes very quickly.

# Enhanced Software License Tracking – If you have available seats for a software title you can now see this quickly and easily. You can also edit and delete a license and enjoy an improved licensing model for keys applied to software suites.

The team really are doing their best to make Spiceworks the product for all SMB IT pro’s.

Checkout all the beta info over on the community http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/480

Below are a couple of screenshots.

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In album Spiceworks 5.3 (4 photos)

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Spiceworks are coming back to do a SpiceWorld in London! They did do one in London in 2009 but never came back but after 4 years of really successful events in Austin, Texas and with the opening of their Europe team they are coming back to run an event for all the UK SpiceHeads.

During the event you will get to:

• Learn IT – There will be lots of different sessions on lots of IT topics, some run by vendors and some run by the SpiceHeads
• Share IT – You will get to share all the cool stuff from best practices to tools and even the up coming trends
• Meet IT – Meet people in the same situation as your in allowing you to work though problems with them 1:1 and of course you will get to meet the Spiceworks staff and vendors.

The full agenda will be out in February but we know you will get to learn about:

• Managing your networking devices with Spiceworks
• Using Spiceworks for change control
• User management simplified with Spiceworks
• Using Spiceworks to get the best IT deals
• Managing remote sites with Spiceworks
• A glimpse at what’s coming next in Spiceworks
• …and more – coming February!

So grab your ticket at www.SpiceWorldLondon.com at a Super Duper Early Bird rate of £199.00 for two days!

I made it over to Austin for Spiceworld 2011 and had an amazing time so make sure you go to the London event for a great time and a few cool surprises   checkout more at www.spiceworldlondon.com

So this week has been a busy week for the Spiceworks team, they have cam all the way from Austin, Texas to London to join SpiceHeads for a SpiceCorps, 2 Unplugged events and lots of press releases so many infact that poor old Chief Spice (Scott) lost his voice by the end of day 1!

For those of you who don’t know the Spiceworks unplugged events are pretty much panels for IT Marketers to ask SMB IT Pros’ questions about how what and why they buy to try and get more vendors to engage with the community. Combine this with the opening off a 6 staff London office (more about this later), the SpiceCorps and also various press meetings with high profile papers and IT article writers its been a packed time for them.

The SpiceCorps London Event

We were lucky enough to have around 10 Spiceworks employees turn up to our SpiceCorps UK event on Tuesday giving all the SpiceHeads that turned up the chance to talk to the team directly to give feedback on the UK / Europe Spiceworks developments.

During the event we spoke about the upcoming release of Spiceworks 5.3 (set to be out of public within around a week and a half but you didn’t hear that here ) Hubba Bubba (Ben) also spoke about the SpiceUni program where you can pay for training in various locations though-out the UK to help you get more out of Spiceworks. Finally I (akp982 – Andy) was presented with a star for managing to get to pure capsaicin twice!

Checkout all the photos on Unofficial Spiceworks’ Google+ page here and keep an eye on the community for more events early next year.

The launch off Spiceworks Europe Limited

To help Spiceworks grow in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) the team have worked hard to launch a new office in London with a starting staff of 6 people it promises to help get more vendors in the UK geared up and involved in the community. Unofficial Spiceworks is planning to do a tour of the new office, take lots of pictures and report back as soon as we can.

“Spiceworks has become the best place in Europe for technology brands to connect with IT pros at small and medium enterprises,” said Scott Abel, Co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. “Our online traffic in the UK alone is expanding by 70 percent year-over-year. The Spiceworks Europe team will help us take advantage of this tremendous opportunity and better serve our marketing partners and users in the region.”

This new office really will do great things for getting more vendors into the community and hopefully even some more giveaways

For those of you interested you can checkout the full press release here.