Unofficial Spiceworks

So as everyone will be aware Spiceworks regularly update the community, over the next few months there are going to be some updates. In which may or may not affect you but having the news first can help you be prepared.

• Audit Trials – With more admins now around the community for all the different groups Spiceworks have designed a audit trial system. This will be publically visable and show when a topic was moved, who marked the best answer and also making people give reasons for deleting topics. All off this is designed to make the community more open so everyone can see who did what.

• Clearer guidelines coming for group admins – So to help with the above Nic (the community manager) is going to work on some guidelines for Group Admins on when to mark answers or close topics. This will hopefully ease up any worry about if they are doing the right thing and with the audit trial above we will hopefully see a increase in group admin activity. If you are a group admin and have any questions you can always PM me (akp982) or Nic we are happy to help.

• From the tranches to get a name change – The from the trenches group is to get a name change, this is because it can be confused with people going to the war or coming back from the war. This may only be me though… Don’t know what the from the trenches group is? Its about Articles & reviews from Spiceworks users about technology. Read more and join in on the community. Currently there is one article “Real World SMB Security” written by DigitalBlacksmith its well worth a read.

• Not confirmed but it appears the number of groups may go down, instead of having little groups for cisco or hp switches it will just be “networking” this will help with the amount of unanswered questions as well as make it easier to navigate the community. This may or may not happen though.

• Also we are meant to be seeing the release of Spiceworks 4.5 tomorrow yay

As we find out more we will update you

The home of Spiceworks (Austin) will be having its first SpiceCorps meeting on Monday.

There’s going to be lots of information about Spiceworks as well as it being a great chance to network with people from your local area.

When: Monday, December 14 @ 6:30pm

Where: Brushy Creek MUD Recreation Center (16318 Great Oaks Dr. Round Rock, Texas 78681)

More information and your chance to come along – http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/80938

Can’t make it? On the day you can watch the stream – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spicecorp-austin

SpiceCorps Golden Horseshoe finally have a date. Sorry for the short notice, can’t be helped.

We are still looking for a great venue (looking for a conference room either at a SpiceWorks’ users’ office or maybe at a sponsor’s office like CDW or someone like that?)

So the date is 18th December 2009. The place, Greater Toronto. The time, 6:30pm.

Read more on the community

WOW

What a great day and evening it was.

We didn’t get as many pictures as Spiceworld Austin did but here are the few we did get, click them for a larger version.

We learnt lots from the fact Spiceworks’s largest network is 39,000 devices to how to start using 4.5 when its released this week.

It was a great day had by all, the venue ended up becoming a bit cosy but that’s a good thing. The turn out was GREAT. Meeting the team was a great experience as well as meeting all the people I had seen around on the community.

I was also surprised to see we had some Swedish people over

I would definitely go back next year and were hoping to get some more UK SpiceCorps (local user meetups) going.

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At Spiceworld London we have just been told that Spiceworks are hoping to get 4.5 out of Beta end of next week…

Can’t wait to finally get 4.5 up and running on my live server. There are so many great improvements and can’t wait to try out the MSSQL plugin.

Follow more Spiceworld London info by following @UnofficialSpice on twitter.

P.S. Hi Spiceworks team

Spiceworks have just opened a new group called “From the Trenches” using the short description its going to be “Articles & reviews from Spiceworks users about technology”

You can read Tabrez’s first opening post at http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/83107

The brain child of this group seems to be DigitalBlacksmith who has written the first article “Real world SMB security”

Well worth a read, thank you Spiceworks and DigitialBlacksmith for getting this started.

The new community manager Nic has already proved himself by annoucing the release off the Spiceworks Microsoft SQL plugin!

At the moment it only works with windows XP but should have Vista and Windows 7 support in the upcoming weeks when the next 4.5 beta build comes out.

Great work guys, I can’t wait to try it out

As im using a mix of windows 7 and chrome os at home i will try to get some screenshots of it running on my network up tomorrow.

We will give a full review tomorrow but wanted to make sure Unofficial Spiceworks readers get the news first

Get the plugin now from http://community.spiceworks.com/plugin/211

This plugin is for Spiceworks 4.5 beta only, and as above does not yet work fully with Vista and Windows 7.

The Spiceworks community has a new community manager Nicholas Tolstoshev or Nic have joined the Spiceworks team to help manage everything to do with the community.

His current profile message:

Hi! I just joined Spiceworks as the Community Manager.

I cut my teeth on community management over at Intuit’s QuickBooks community, and in a former life I was an IT guy for small businesses.

My spare time is taken up with movies, video games, salsa dancing, hiking, and a voracious appetite for reading. I just moved to Austin from Tucson, AZ, but I’m originally from Australia.

Feel free to drop me a line and say hello!

So everyone give a warm welcome to him when you see him around the community. Let’s try not to scare him off too quickly.

It does appear he is already in need of help though according to his status:

The community must be a big and scary thing to start to get to grips with. Especially with people like Papa Smurf on there.

Best of luck Nic

Spiceworks seems a great place to work and I’m sure you’ll have fun.