Unofficial Spiceworks

There back! Spiceworks’ own Spiceworld and Boot Camps!

Spiceworld 2010

This will be their 3rd annual user conference, happening October 21 – 22, 2010 in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas. It’s set to be bigger and better than the last two years with some great sponsors like Dell, Buffalo Technology, CDW and loads more.

Also this year Unofficial Spiceworks is an official “SpiceMedia” sponsor meaning we will be providing you all the latest news and information about from Spiceworld via some of the guests and the live stream. Checkout the other SpiceMedia sponsors here.

The most happenin’ IT conference around, SpiceWorld is where IT pros from all walks of life come together for 2 full days to:

• LEARN the latest practical IT trends, how-tos, best practices, & solutions.
• SHARE IT ideas, processes, advice & recommendations with other Spiceworks users.
• MEET & get 1:1 answers from Spiceworks product experts & leading IT companies.
• (Oh, and let’s be honest – EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY too!)

Get the best bang-for-your-IT-buck (& one heck of a deal given it includes food, drinks, fun…& cool swag) and register today!

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Last week Spiceworks reached 1 million SpiceHeads and tomorrow is the big party.

Spiceworks has managed to get 1 million IT Pros using Spiceworks in under 4 years. With SpiceHeads in 196 countries around the globe, Spiceworks has managed to become the fastest growing and most widely used network management system.

With 1 million SpiceHeads and now SpiceRex it is now a ‘A force to be reckoned with?’

Now there are over 1,000,000 users banding together large companies like Microsoft, Dell, HP, CDW stand up and take part providing us with deals and help thought out the community. Its a great place to get advice and recommendations from other IT pro’s.

…IT feels pretty darn good to be 1 in a million, doesn’t it?

So make sure you join in the party tomorrow at 12:30pm CDT or 6:30 GMT. It will be streamed around the world, checkout the UStream Page here.

It will be a great event to watch with talks from:

• Scott Abel, CEO & Co-founder
• Greg Kattawar, VP of Dev & Co-founder
• Francis Sullivan, CTO & Co-founder
• Jay Hallberg, VP of Marketing & Co-founder
• Tabrez, Dir. of Products & 1st Spiceworks Employee
• Marcelo, Dir. of Support
• Nic, Your Spiceworks Community Manager
• (& more of your favorites!)

And even some SpiceHeads

• benhar (one of Spiceworks longest-time users!)
• akp982 (2009 Spicy Winner – The Champion)
• Scott Alan Miller (2009 Spicy Winner – The Innovator)
• DScammell (2009 Spicy Winner – The Hero)
• Spiceworks 1 Millionth User?!
• (& some other surprise SpiceHeads)

Checkout Spiceworks.com for more information!

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

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.

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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So if your like me and not had the time to check out 4.7 or not had Dell hardware or Rackspace Email to check all the functionality here are some screenshots I managed to squeeze out of Spiceworks. Enjoy

And yes your eyes are right, that is a screenshot of the Performance monitor. I’m trying to hunt down some more information on it at the moment.

So better late than never, Spiceworks have got 4.6 early access out for everyone to try it out and give feedback.

The early access window was meant to run from March 3rd-11th, but due to some last minute issues was released a day late.

Please read the following posts on information on how the early access program will work. Please be sure to test your favourite 4.5 features as well as the new 4.6 features!

• 4.6 Testing Guidelines
• 4.6 Testing Plan

Progress Bar as Spiceworks Starts Up The first thing you will notice when you start up Spiceworks 4.6 is the new splash screen. It will give new users the chance to watch some videos on how Spiceworks can help them.
The registration box has also been cleaned up and a “existing user” link put on to help stop confusion.

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