Unofficial Spiceworks

Live office are the first company to produce a plug-in for Spiceworks. Worked around there MailArchiving software it quickly allows you to track archive levels in the Spiceworks dashboard.

A simple plugin that provides email archiving, unlimited email storage and continuity services for up to 5 users. The pie chart displays the number of emails archived per user as well as some helpful stats about email storage.

The plugin also provides a link for you to log into the Administrator Console where you can:

• Quickly search and restore old or deleted emails and attachments
• Create policy alerts based on specific keyword and phrase violations
• Tag emails for further review and/or investigation

LiveOffice Mail Archive is a comprehensive solution designed to help you archive, monitor, search and retrieve your organization’s emails without making costly upfront investments in hardware, software, or integration services.

There has been LOTS of hype about this:

• http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090622005344&newsLang=en
• http://ow.ly/fBxq
• http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/liveoffice-launches-first-email-archiving-plugin-to-spiceworks-community,868698.shtml
• http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/News/ShowNewsStory.aspx?StoryID=10503104
• http://finance.yahoo.com/news/LiveOffice-Launches-First-bw-3644321394.html?x=0&.v=1
• And many many more on google http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en-GB&q=LiveOffice+Launches+First+Email+Archiving+Plugin+to+Spiceworks+Community++&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_en-GBGB327GB327&ie=UTF-8

Hopefully we will see more companies making plugins soon.

If you use Live Office download it today

Sanjai Marimadaiah (Business Management at IBM) has finally made it onto the Spiceworks community forums.

Its good to finally have some experts on the Spiceworks community to listen to us and share feedback with

Welcome him into the community here

With Spiceworks 4.0 now released Spiceworks are working hard to get “The Voice of IT” together.

The Voice of IT will help companies like HP, Microsoft and Netgear get the feedback they want about there products.

With surveys, polls, questionnaires in the making you could be part of the next revolutionary product.

Spiceworks News will have the latest news as it gets released…

Why not join in the fun side of the community in the water cooler… this recently popped up in my side bar and described it all too well…

Join in the thread called Totally random thread – anything goes!

Pop over to the cooler today

With Spiceworks 4.0 you now have many more features in the helpdesk.

Create a User portal With 4.0 you can now create a user portal to add information to about your network, or a FAQ maybe even a walk though. With the portal you can quickly provide contact information and also allow users to update, add and close tickets.
Receive & Respond to Tickets Via Email You have always been able to receive tickets vis email but now you can reply to them as well using Tickets Anywhere. Quickly add time to a ticket or just reply while your on the move.
Tickets Anywhere Update, open and close tickets no matter were you are on any mail enabled phone.
Assign Help Desk Tickets Across Your IT Team Setup unlimited users, track time, documents and issues. This ticket system has unlimited users and tickets… you can assign tickets and set priorities.
Report on All Help Desk Tickets Make custom reports for all your needs. Export them to print, pdf, csv and even excel. Track how many tickets have been closed and even how long it took them to close the ticket.
Create Trouble Tickets from Your Inventory & Alerts Got a problem asset or alert create a Spiceworks ticket from anywhere in Spiceworks.
Choose from 18 Languages There are 18 languages to use with more in the creation at the moment. Languages include German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, Estonian and Slovenian.
Import Tickets from Another Help Desk You can quickly import tickets for other applications use CSV.

Spiceworks is FREE download it today.

There is no catch

The Voice of IT has started with IBM.

They are looking to get into the SMB Market and could do with your help!

MyShell has posted the below, what are your thoughts and comments.

IBM has primarily been known as a leader in the Enterprise space for years. They have recently started to focus on the Mid and Small business Market. They want to learn how to better relate to Mid-market and small business. How are they doing? Do you feel that IBM’s Ad messaging both on Spiceworks and elsewhere is effective? How do you rank the Whitepapers/Case studies/ Digital Assets they produce? What is your current perception of IBM and their role in supporting you, the Mid and Small business IT Professional? What are they doing right, what are they doing wrong?

We would like to hear from you, the “Voice of IT” in this space. Your feedback will help us help IBM better understand your needs, so be sure to tell us what you think!”

Why not pop over to the Spiceworks community and share your feedback?

Click here to view what’s been said already

Hopefully we will see people like Dell, HP and IBM with people actively on the community giving us the latest information and asking for feedback on there products.

I made it to SpiceLevel.

This means I now have between 45,000 and 70,000 SpicePoints… Slowly catching up to Scott who’s on Ghost

Read more about SpiceLevels

Why not try to catch up to me? Get on the Spiceworks community and post away, you get points for nearly everything you do.

P.S. I really need to update my Display Picture… its a year or so old…

Spiceworks now includes a FREE network map.

With Spiceworks you can not only now inventory your network but also see it in a graphical form showing you were devices are connected up. The new network mapping feature allows you to quickly and effectively map you IT network and see the bandwidth useable between nodes. This is great when trying to diagnose network problems and helps you to quickly dig into network node issues.

Spiceworks 4.0 has loads of great features for IT pro’s why don’t you try it out now?

The feature is in beta but leave you feedback for Spiceworks and they will do there best to ensure it gets better.

Spiceworks has a huge support team ready to help you with any problems and a IT community of over 700,000 members someone is bound to have a answer for you.

“The network map has helped me work out how my network is setup and quickly resolve the issues I had.”

“Because the network map fits in with the inventory I can quickly lookup device information from OS to the User, it helped point out some problem machines and where I needed to upgrade my network back bone.”

Said James in a recent discussion Spiceworks-News had.

Spiceworks is FREE so why not download it and give it a try? What have you got to lose?

Download Spiceworks 4.0 NOW for free

More screenshots and hopefully a working demo soon.