Unofficial Spiceworks

As many of you should be aware Spiceworks is coming to the UK on there European BootCamp tour and Unofficial Spiceworks is going to be there to provide everyone who can’t make it with updates, photos, video and hopefully from Manchester a stream! Yes a stream, hopefully is the Manchester location has Wi-Fi and Spiceworks allows Unofficial Spiceworks to stream we will for sure we will be recording the Manchester and maybe the London one.

As well as that we will have twitter and blog updates throughout the day from both locations.

Topics set to be covered are:

• Getting a complete inventory of your whole network
• Setting up and using Monitors, Alerts & Reports effectively
• Mapping Your Network
• Setting up and getting the most out of your Help Desk & User Portal
• Making the Help Desk & User Portal fit your needs
• Getting the most out of the Spiceworks Community
• …& Learning How to Use the New Features in 5.0!

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During SpiceWorld 2010 was trying to follow the goings on but with a couple of technical failures with the stream it was a bit hard, but again Spiceworks have come to the rescue with all the photos and recordings being posted up online.

Doug Brown has done a great job of sorting it all out and all the videos can now be seen on Spiceworks TV and there are also lots of pictures

• Party at the Highball
• Opening party at Speakeasy
• Photos at the conference itself
• Austin Bootcamp the day before

The video recordings are definitely worth a watch, there are some brilliant talks from both SpiceHeads and Spiceworks. Do check them out!

Also well done to Daiku for winning the shavlik $1000 raffle!

Thanks again to all the Spiceworks team who worked on SpiceWorld 2010, here’s to a great year for Spiceworks and a AWESOME SpiceWorld 2011!

Unofficial Spiceworks’ SpiceWorld 2010 Posts

• Spiceworks SpiceWorld 2010 – Day 1
• Spiceworks SpiceWorld 2010 – Day 2
• Spicies 2010 Winners

Tabrez, David and the “Spiceworks European team” are coming to the UK, Germany and Italy next month to provide hands on training for SpiceHeads.

It will be a great chance to meet fellow IT Pro’s as well as learn how to get more out of Spiceworks. I will be attending both the London and Manchester events so it will be a great chance for you to meet me as well I’m looking forward to meeting all you guys

Unofficial Spiceworks (well I) will also blogging though out the day to keep the guys who can’t make it up to date.

Some commonly asked questions have been:

What is a Spiceworks BootCamp? – BootCamps are the new 2010 name for Spiceworks’ one day hands on training in which they are providing all around the world for cheap prices around £100 each. Last year they were called SpiceWorlds but this all got very confusing so there is one SpiceWorld and lots of BootCamps.

Why a BootCamp not a Spiceworld? – Spiceworld is about giving you the chance to talk to other SpiceHeads and Vendors about things not particularly related to Spiceworks. Its more of a IT conference run by Spiceworks. You get to learn a lot more about other products and services where as a bootcamp is about getting to know more about Spiceworks and meet your fellow SpiceHeads. Checkout http://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/2010 for more information.

What can I expect from the BootCamp? – There are going to be lots of topics about Spiceworks all based around 5.0 which will be out by then. These include: “Getting a Full Inventory of Your Network”, “Using Monitors, Alerts & Reports”, “Mapping Your Network”, “Setting Up & Running Your Help Desk & User Portal”, “Customizing Your Help Desk & User Portal”, “Maximizing Resources in the Spiceworks Community” Also checkout this topic.

From the Spiceworks UK forum

The dates

• 29 Nov. – Frankfurt, Germany
• 30 Nov. - Rome, Italy
• 2 Dec. – London, UK
• 3 Dec. – Manchester, UK

More info

You can find more information about the BootCamps on the following pages:

• Official BootCamps Website
• Official News
• 2010 UK BootCamp QnA
• 2010 BootCamp London
• 2010 BootCamp Manchester

SpiceWorld Austin 2010 like the last two SpiceWorld’s was a HUGE hit there aren’t many pictures yet (Flickr) but I’m sure they are on the way, and hopefully we will get some cool after party pictures.

Even though the stream was “temperamental” to say the least when it worked most of the sessions where good and there was lots to be learnt.

Checkout our “commentary” from day 1 and day2 as well as the Spicies 2010 Winners:

• Spiceworks SpiceWorld 2010 – Day 1
• Spiceworks SpiceWorld 2010 – Day 2
• Spicies 2010 Winners

Congratz and thanks to all of the Spiceworks team for putting together SpiceWorld and hope to see you there next year

As Jen announced the Species have been brought back for SpiceWorld 2010 and they have just announced the winners!

The Spiceworks Hero

IT’s a bird, IT’s a plane, no, IT’s the Spiceworks Hero! Amid working tirelessly to come to the rescue of their own users, the Spiceworks Hero uses their super powers (and raw I.Q!) to help other IT pros like you by sharing their expertise and answering your most pressing questions & concerns – in the Community and elsewhere.

Justin Davison

The Spiceworks Champion

“The Spice Must Flow!” is the rally cry of the inspiring Spiceworks Champion! A unique mix of commitment, creativity and charisma, the Spiceworks Champion relentlessly promotes the Spiceworks “free IT” cause among new IT pros everywhere – all the while keeping their own network running like a true champ!

Yasaf Burshan

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Spiceworld 2010 has started! You can checkout the live streaming over on Spiceworks.com and Unofficial Spiceworks will be here trying to update you with notes, comments and any funny screenshots. If you want to interact checkout the IRC or the UStream Chat (suggest the IRC is much better).

Also do checkout our post about Day 1 at SpiceWorld 2010.

As the day/evening goes on this post will be updated. Times are GMT as this is run by a UK guy

• 2:50 – Getting ready for the stream to start in about 10…
• 2:59 – Waiting in the IRC for the stream to start…
• 3:06 – Confused about why we haven’t started yet, no word from Spiceworks, great start…
• 3:10 – No update from Spiceworks yet waiting for more news on why it hasn’t started yet.
• 3:12 – Twitter from @westheoperative “some of the attendees are looking rough after a long night at the highball. the breakfast tacos are helping though. #spiceworld2010”
• 3:13 – Jonathan from Spiceworks updates us with “sorry guys. this seems to be an issue with ustream”
• 3:16 – Jonathan from Spiceworks updates us with “we have internet, but we’re not able to connect to the ustream servers”
• 3:17 – Some tweets from other ustream user’s show its not just Spiceworks having problems…
• 3:18 – Chat (yes his real name) Spiceworks on twitter – “@ustream hey guys, are your servers having any sort of problem? We can’t get our @spiceworks channel running!”

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Spiceworld 2010 has started! You can checkout the live streaming over on Spiceworks.com and Unofficial Spiceworks will be here trying to update you with notes, comments and any funny screenshots. If you want to interact checkout the IRC or the UStream Chat (suggest the IRC is much better).

You can already checkout some of the BootCamp Austin photos on the community here.

Last year was great fun both being there and being on the stream, checkout out 2009 posts. Lets see how much fun with can have this year

Times are GMT as this is run by a UK guy

• Livestream is currently intro videos a mix of TV clips and Webclips, worth checking out.
• Oppsy seems like someone broke something…
• The opening video looks really nice! *Added a screenshot section of stuff from the feed*
• Scott is starting the opening talk, and started it with “IT Problems even happen to us”
• Some great stats given out about how many view’s Spiceworks gets.
• What’s next for Spiceworks? Is about simplifying your day, with research tools, vendor plugins and more.
• Soon you will be able to buy printer in direct from within Spiceworks.
• Spiceworks is a viable company, doubling its revenue from last year and set to double it next year.
• Spiceworks is profitable, breaking evening last year until they doubled there dev team size, this year they are set to be profitable.
• SpiceWorld 2010 was sold out this year
• Dell provided all the IT equip for this years event, cheer guys.
• Say Hello to Spiceworks 5.0: New Feature Showcase is just about to start.
• The team are talking about the goals for 5.0 which include making the helpdesk look nice and clean and helping you manage your network better.
• For your mobile device, use http://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/2010/m/ to review #SpiceWorld2010 agenda.
• @dscammell – Was this planned? They’re on stage by order of height! *lol* Francis, Greg & Tabrez #SpiceWorld2010
• 5.0 is the largest with the biggest beta period and the biggest speed improvement

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Spiceworks’ SpiceWorld 2010 starts tomorrow where 300 SpiceHeads will descend upon the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Unofficial Spiceworks can’t make it in person but will be following all the antics via the live stream, the IRC and twitter. The live broadcast starts at 9am CDT or 3pm GMT for us UK guys and can be viewed on Spiceworks.com here. Checkout the full stream schedule here.

With lots of great talks from various Spiceworks staff, partners and SpiceHeads its set to be bigger and better than last year.

And yes there will be Spiceworks 5.0 training!