Unofficial Spiceworks

The Spiceworks Community water cooler to have a chat feature???

Could it be Spiceworks listened to us?

From recent talks with Spiceworks it appears in one of the up coming community releases (no information timescale or which release will contain it yet) they are planning a chat system! To start with there will be select people who can use it to test it out and make sure it works right with the plan of rolling it out for all users above X pepper level so that it doesn’t get flooded with noobies, lets hope they dont let Glen8990 in (joking)

It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

From what we know so far it will be like Facebook chat so that you can carry it on in as you surf around the community. They are not sure yet but it may start with just one on one chats before developing into muti user chat rooms but we will see what happens.

Told you this one would be exciting…

Spiceworks mentioned by TechTarget in one of there latest articles….

At the U.K.-based marketing firm HPS Group, IT administrator Andy Phelps turned to the free, ad-supported Spiceworks toolset to track down what had slowed his company’s WAN bandwidth to a crawl.

The culprit: Windows Service Pack 3, which all 15 remote users who were logged into the corporate VPN began downloading simultaneously.

“It’s one of those situations where none of the users knows they are downloading anything, so Spiceworks pointed out that all these machines were installing this software,” Phelps said.

I recognize that name from somewhere… Andy Phelps… OHHH ITS ME akp982 lol

“You walked around the office and saw all the users on Facebook and whatnot,” Phelps said. “But we didn’t see an effect on bandwidth.”

Thank you TechTarget for taking the time to write such a great article

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