Matt Hartley has recently posted about his First Impressions with Spiceworks
Today I had a chance to do something that has frankly been on my to-do list for sometime now — check into Spiceworks. Designed to run on Windows PCs, I opted to install it on my own VirtualBox installation just to toss a wrench into the mix to see how well the software reacted.
http://it.tmcnet.com has posted about Spiceworks 4.0
Jun 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — Spiceworks, which provides what it called the first free social IT management application for small and medium businesses, announced the release of the Spiceworks IT Desktop version 4.0.
Spiceworks stated that the new version has several enhancements that make it easier for small and midsize businesses to manage “Everything IT.” They include the ability to visually map a company’s IT network and the addition of 3rd party management plug-ins from Microsoft, LiveOffice, Intel and Trend Micro. In addition, Spiceworks now integrates with Twitter and allows users to turn Windows events into social media alerts for collaborative problem-solving and to share real-time SMB IT trends with the world’s largest network of IT professionals.
There on the groups page
http://community.spiceworks.com/group
Hopefully well see more soon and more things we can do with them 
Tabrez has just posted:
We’re planning on pushing out an update to the Spiceworks Community tonight (Jul 14) at 7pm CST. The Community will be offline during this time. We should be back up in 4 hours. For those of you with S.C.A.D – rest assured we’ll be back and spicier!
Some of the changes you’ll see are:
- A few changes to the point system (I’ll post back tomorrow with the details but in a nutshell: you can now earn points for providing troubleshooting advice and comments on Windows Events)
- We’re testing out a new way of organizing groups around a concept called Channels. For eg: If you visit the Networking channel you’ll see all the topics from groups like Cisco, DNS, etc.
- Topics will now have social media buttons so you can share something from the community on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Linked In, and Reddit. When you share something you found interesting on Spiceworks you’re also helping spread the word about Spiceworks!
I’ll post more details once we get the release out.
Its going to be a hard time of everyone with SCAD but well fight though it.
Join Spiceworks for a 60-minute webinar where we will discuss all of the exciting new features that you’ll find in 4.0 including:
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
Wellston is a good blog writer who loves Spiceworks
For anybody who reads my blog that is an IT Professional, I highly recommend that you take a look at Spiceworks (http:/www.spiceworks.com).
In one of his recent post he talks about how Spiceworks helps him, even if his english is work then minde
As a member of a small IT Shop (4 full timers) for a college campus of roughly 1100 people during a semester, keeping an accurate inventory of our (college-owned) PCs/Macs/Linux machines and networking switches can be rather difficult.
The Spiceworks product will help you to accurately inventory the network by scanning any ip ranges that you specify and connecting via WMI (for windows),SSH (Linux/Mac), and SNMP (Network switches –also SSH/Telnet) to gather useful information (software installed, system specs, etc). Once it discoveres your sytem, it will monitor the Windows Event Log and keep you up-to-date on the event log entries on your network.
Read more: http://wellston.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/spiceworks-deffinitely-spicey/#comment-4
Spiceworks provides a free systems management, inventory, and helpdesk software application, Spiceworks IT Desktop, designed for network administrators working in small- to medium-sized businesses.
Spiceworks IT Desktop is used to inventory, monitor, manage and report on software and hardware assets. It also includes an integrated help desk system. Spiceworks runs on Microsoft Windows and discovers Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X machines along with other IP-addressable devices such as routers, VOIP phones, printers, etc. Spiceworks is an advertisement-supported application and is written in Ruby on Rails.
What’s so different about Spiceworks and other network monitoring and inventory software?
The biggest difference between Spiceworks and other software is the fact that its FREE for anyone to use. Spiceworks was formed in Jan 2006 by Jay Hallberg and Scott Abel is free to use and recommend for all Small to medium businesses.
The biggest thing IT managers have to deal with is tracking the patchwork of all the IT equipment in a company network, from printers to routers, servers to PCs and all the other assorted peripherals that go along with any network.
Being free Spiceworks enables IT pro’s to quickly test before implementing fully. Unlike LANDesk or Alteris you don’t have to worry about it not working right on your network or not doing 100% what you want. Spiceworks provides plugins in which allow you to change the whole look and feel.
Something that is not in most network inventory tools are plugins. These allow you to either use someone else’s or create your own helping you develop Spiceworks and get the product you want. You can change how the interface looks, create reports, add in RSS feeds or even Dilbert comments.
The Spiceworks community provides you with a great resource for all things IT, you can get help with a wide range of issues from Spiceworks to DNS problems. With more than 500,000 IT pro’s using Spiceworks there is a huge community ready to talk.
With the great reporting tools in Spiceworks you can quickly make and share reports with people who need them. Spiceworks gives you 20 ready-to-use reports but there are hundreds on the community waiting for you to use.
Most of network monitor software works better on Linux as it is designed for geeks and network pro’s. Spiceworks breaks this wall down and allows anyone to quickly install and use all the features. Its hassle free setup makes it easy to use without any hassle.
Spiceworks is 100% free and always will be, this is one of the major differences between other network management software
The latest news submitted by the community
If you want to keep up to date with the latest news in the world of IT then the news submitted here is for you.
The Spiceworks community are able to post IT news, from software “Panda introduces free, cloud-based antivirus for Windows” to hardware “HP launches new ProBook range” It provides you with the latest greatest news from the world of IT.