TranslateWow its been a busy week since I got back from SpiceWorld 2011, I’m in the process of writing up about the event but finding the time to do anything after two weeks holiday (as most of you know) is a pain.
I just had to share the latest Spiceworks video which involves Zombies vs SpiceRex
You can make sure your ready for a Zombie Apocalypse by following Justins how-to here.
Well I (akp982) have make it to 500,000 points which is double the amount you need to reach pure capsaicin (250,000) which is currently the highest level within the Spiceworks community.
I orginally made it to pure in feb last year, Unofficial Spiceworks post, Official Spiceworks post. 5 months later Scott Alan Miller made it, Unofficial post, Official post.
It is believed that its still only me and Scott who have made it this far. Hopefully someone else wont be too far behind.
My current stats:
I set myself the goal of making it before Spiceworld 2011 and I have managed this with a week and 1 day to spare. I look forward to meeting a load of you over there and good luck with your point quests.
Spiceworks entered more into the social market with SpiceButtons allowing SpiceHeads to SpiceUp webpages where ever they go. The team behind this new feature have already got some big names to add the buttons including Eaton and untangle and well now Unofficial Spiceworks although I do need to tidy the buttons up a little but that’s another nights job.
At the moment there is one style of button but it sounds like there may be more styles if successful, would like to see the amount of spices displayed, well see what happens. I’m also not 100% sure how often the shared links section of the community are viewed but this will probably grow as the new feature grows.
Wanna make sure IT pros to engage with you, where they work, when they’re working?
This is a simple button which works as a link and sends visitors off to a vendor page on the community, when on the page SpiceHeads can then follow the vendor to get updates. Hopefully this will drive some new smaller vendors into the community in which actively participate in the forums and engage IT Pro’s like me where and how we want to be engaged not with cold calls. It will be exciting to see how well this works and if it brings on more vendors.
Content is King! Especially when it’s easy for IT pros to Spice Up IT content in the Spiceworks community.
This is more interesting upon clicking the Spice button SpiceHeads get a pop up which they can enter comments about the site and publish it onto the community for other users to see and comments on. If this works and becomes a success (and I hope it does) it will be a really useful tool for IT pro’s to keep tracks of websites / links that other IT Pro’s feel are important and worth sharing. Overtime I do expect to see a re-haul of the shared links section but I can’t confirm this, would seem sensible.
We’ll keep tabs on how well this works. For now make sure you goto the new developers site and give it ago. Also make sure you Spice Up this site 
ALSO 14 days till SpiceWorld 2011!!!! See you there!
Aaron has recently joined the Spiceworks team as a support engineer (you may know him as doublea) he’s following in Cole’s footsteps who made the jump from SpiceHead to SpiceLord last July.
Having used Spiceworks since 1.5 he’s the perfect guy to try and fix your problems… Although he may just end up passing them to Cole…
Aaron moved to Austin for the gig, coming from Sacramento where he worked for the Sacramento News & Review. In his spare time Aaron enjoys mountain biking, soccer and cooking.
Good luck working at SW HQ Aaron!!!
Last Thursday the third Spiceworks 5.2 beta was released with 5 major feature updates and over 210 publicly announced bug fixes (as with all companies there will be more than that hidden away that they don’t want to shout about) this was a major update and shows the dedication the team have.
The bug fix count doesn’t just show the dedication of the team… But also the dedication of the community to find and report the bugs. Once the users reports the bugs on the forum (which has approx. 677 posts) the SpiceLords (Spiceworks employees) jump on it and work as hard as they can to get it fixed. The team behind the developments and the QA are dedicated to making sure you get the product you want and that it works really well. One of the really cool things they do is that they will try and fix those little niggles that annoy you as well as making the new features.
The updated features in this release include:
I can’t wait for 5.2 to come out of beta so I can start to use the new features on my real install.
If your going to try Spiceworks 5.2 make sure you read the 5.2 Test Plan and 5.2 Testing Guidelines.
Last week Spiceworks announced the second Beta build of Spiceworks 5.2, 5.2.73400 to be exact this build doesn’t bring any new features but brings a lot of enhancements to ones that were introduced in Beta 1 as well as a fair few bug fixes.
I have also had to update my last review as I was wrong about the “real-time” monitoring coming 
apparently its not… Maybe in the future.
One of the main problems people where having was that port 43 needed to be open in the firewall for the domain scanner to work. This section has now been changed so that it will use the standard port 80, this should allow more domains to be supported / tested. This change has also been put in place for the ISP scanner.
There have also been some bug fixes to this section which can be found on the community.
The only real change the software section is the ability to edit the existing keys, this makes it a lot easier to manage / control your keys and update them if for any reason they need to change.
So the first official beta of Spiceworks 5.2 was released on the 23rd August 2011 (Beta 1) and there are lots of new features and many updated features within this version as always with a Spiceworks update. The team always puts in a lot of effort to ensure the features we want as SpiceHeads are built in as quick and as well as possible. This version is no different with what looks to be the start of some more real-time monitoring a load of great new features.
The “Spiceworks Studios” have also put together a cool video about 5.2, its new features and how you can influence the final version.
So I’m going to try and go though as many of these as I can but without a Liebert UPS some of it may not be possible.
So with the new cloud services section you can monitor / get information about any ISP or Domain provider. When you first start-up 5.2 it will automatically work out who your ISP is and start monitoring it. You can then track the uptime of the line and if you have a domain with the provider you can also see how long until the domain is set to expire. This new feature monitors ISP latency and domain status. I was wrong before its not the uptime 
Spiceworks now lets you keep track of your Cloud Services in one easy location. Users who are installing Spiceworks for the first time will have all their compatible Cloud Services automatically scanned in by the new Auto-detect feature the first time they visit the Cloud Services section. Users who are upgrading from a previous installation will have any compatible IT Services converted automatically into Cloud Services, all non-compatible services will still be available in the new Vendors section. From the 5.2 test plan
The services are then monitored around every 15 seconds minutes and over time will populate the graphs to show the uptime latency.
Spiceworks 5.2 is on the way!!!
There has been a official alpha release. The main thing / only real thing we have seen so far with this release is the new Cloud Services features.
Cloud Services will help you manage your off-premise inventory. This includes discovering and scanning providers for services like your ISP, domain registrar, hosted email, cloud servers, and cloud storage.
It also appears that there will be some near real time website + ISP monitoring so you can keep an eye on your hosted website and or your internet connection.
As soon as we have more details and some “working” screenshots we will post 
At the moment were waiting for some bugs to be fixed… As you expect.
At the moment the alpha is NOT being released to the public so don’t request a download/link. When its ready it will be posted in the 5.2 beta group.
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