Unofficial Spiceworks

The Chief Spice (Scott Abel) wrote a nice article on why 1 million SpiceHeads matter and what it means for us.

July 24th of this year will mark the four-year anniversary of the launch of Spiceworks. In those four short years Spiceworks has gone from an industry curiosity to the fastest growing, most widely deployed and used systems management application in history. In fact, thanks to all of your support, Spiceworks has emerged as the de facto IT infrastructure for the Global 2M. That’s quite the achievement in and of itself.

Read the whole article on the community.

In the article we are promised “functionality, more leverage and more buying power” which is already coming true with the talks starting on Spiceworks 5.0 as well as more vendors like HP and Dell getting involved.

Spiceworks Update 4.7.51538 is Now Available and includes some great new features including

• Check HP Warranty Status
• Bulk Delete Helpdesk Tickets
• Additional Language Pack Translation Keys
• Antivirus Detection for Sunbelt AV
• Software inventorying support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

The previous version of 4.7 already had the Dell Warranty Status built in.

Read more on the community

The HP Warranty Early Access Build I Now Available (4.7.51425) this update includes the HP warranty checking and also a couple of new features.

• Bulk Delete Helpdesk Tickets to allow you to delete batches of helpdesk tickets without having to use the database.
• Additional Language Pack Translation Keys which enhance the translation packs to include extra stuff
• Antivirus Detection for Sunbelt AV

Checkout the HP Warranty Early Access Testing Guidelines and HP Warranty Early Access Test Plan then get your copy from HP Warranty Early Access Build I Now Available (4.7.51425)

Spread Spiceworks is open again!

Yes I did think it was  going to close but recently found a project I started last year and brought it back to life.

Spread Spiceworks now provides you with PNG images of the community badge + some new cool designs.

Spread-Spiceworks has finally found a real use, it now provides PNG community badges for you to post on other websites and forums.

Its a great new way to Spread Spiceworks from UnofficialSpiceworks.com!

These images are really flexible to use and provide you with a very quick loading version of the current site badge.

You can quickly add them to all sorts of sites in which you wouldn’t have been able to add it before, including but not limited to forum signatures and blogs.

Build yours now!

I have to give a HUGE thanks to Dbeer and AdamRPL for helping with the code.

At the moment there are 3 designs but more are on the way, just need to think up some ideas… Got any PM me

Build yours now!

So we have recently seen the ability to check Dell Warranty Status direct from within Spiceworks.

This allows you to quickly see which machines are in and out of warranty as well as what ones are coming up to the end.

More information on warranty scanning.

We have heard Spiceworks are working with HP to be able to do this for HP kit as well, can’t wait to see where this goes in the future.

Help Spiceworks figure out who to work with next. Vote for which other manufacturers you’d like to see warranty information for in this SpiceList.

Bobster has just done a great Job on making a Spiceworks Poster based on SpiceHeads Xbox Live Avatars and a Spice Rack.

As a big thank you to those of you who have posted Avatars and also a massive “Hoo Harr!” to all XBox Live Spiceworks gamers, here’s a poster.

Checkout the original post here

Click for a larger Image

There are some great new features in 4.7 and also some bug fixes so make sure you update

• Spiceworks 4.7 Release Notes

• Spiceworks now supports Exchange 2007/2010

• See whether your Dell devices are still under warranty

• New: Rackspace Email Hosting Integration in Spiceworks

Download and Install Spiceworks 4.7.50667 Now

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Spiceworks have recently released a new plugin Sponsored by EMC it is designed to allow you to:

See how much drive space is in use on any given drive, and the past usage history.  Project your backup needs based on backup schedule and projected drive usage.

Having just installed it on my Spiceworks install it looks promising, showing you how much backup Space you need for 12 months. You pick how many full and incremental backups and also the size of the data increase. If you are finding it hard to work out how much space you are using make sure you check it out.

Get the plugin now