• Network Map: disconnecting a node, then clicking undo causes it to turn orange – fixed
• Network Map: Unable to save a view after adding devices – fixed
• Network Map: possible to make the delete popup relative to the mouse – fixed
• Remote Collector: Network scans will not run if the Remote Collector link is clicked and the setup is not completed – fixed
• User Portal: “ticket is too old to be reopened” typo – fixed
• User Portal: Allows view ticket block to be removed, which renders the page useless – fixed
• Looking at a device in browse view, then switching to software view and selecting a package does not update the display – fixed
• Using Date strings in relative format (e.g. 7 days from now) then clicking calendar button causes date errors – fixed

This does still mean we are awaiting 4.6 which has some new features ear wigged but we don’t know what yet.

Download 4.5.46618 now

• x64 bit installs will now pickup software better
• Its now able to find SQL Server x64 installs
• If “Stay logged in” is unchecked it will forgot you when closing browser
• Scan Error count now decreases if scan errors are fixed on a scan
• Network map
  • • Users are no longer able to add the same device more than once to a single node
    • When deleting a connection between nodes, a large black spot no longer super imposes itself on the map
    • Users are now able to add sets of devices; if a node is disconnected and then reconnected, the line no longer stays orange
    • Changing a node to be the root node no longer removes the connection
    • ISA server no longer creates a node that prevents the network map from rendering
• Remote Collector – Restarting or connecting to the remote collector installation no longer goes to the dashboard

Just to show how Spiceworks are always working to improve the product.

Download and Install Spiceworks 4.5.45710 Now

To update from a previous version just install over the top.

They did add a monitor SQL server page though…

So what are you hanging about for?

The official Spiceworks website still says 4.1 but the download is for 4.5! Spiceworks will be updating the home page soon!

Ignore the bit about 4.1, just download! Its 4.5 for sure!

Spiceworks 4.5 brings lots of changes.

Now using Apache with as the web server there is SSL support and now more real time scanning for things like the MSSQL monitor plugin.

Checkout a full review of all the new features

Download 4.5 from Spiceworks.com NOW!

As above ignore the whole 4.1 bit Spiceworks are updating the site!

Well done Spiceworks for producing another great version! I’m installing now!

Its taken longer due to bugs with 4.5 beta and the plugin in which were fixed very quickly by the Spiceworks staff.

So over time the graphs will start to populate as they record the information they receive.

With Apache, Spiceworks are now able to start scanning on a more real time basis. This is the first step in what will hopefully be a more real-time based scanner for Spiceworks.

The SQL plugin was sponsored by Microsoft and will prove really useful on many different networks allowing you to monitor more than one SQL server from your dashboard. With the quick overview information and cool charts you can quickly see when something could be going wrong.

Its a great addition to a already great product.

Hopefully with this now fixed we will see the release off 4.5 later today…

• Audit Trials – With more admins now around the community for all the different groups Spiceworks have designed a audit trial system. This will be publically visable and show when a topic was moved, who marked the best answer and also making people give reasons for deleting topics. All off this is designed to make the community more open so everyone can see who did what.

• Clearer guidelines coming for group admins – So to help with the above Nic (the community manager) is going to work on some guidelines for Group Admins on when to mark answers or close topics. This will hopefully ease up any worry about if they are doing the right thing and with the audit trial above we will hopefully see a increase in group admin activity. If you are a group admin and have any questions you can always PM me (akp982) or Nic we are happy to help.

• From the tranches to get a name change – The from the trenches group is to get a name change, this is because it can be confused with people going to the war or coming back from the war. This may only be me though… Don’t know what the from the trenches group is? Its about Articles & reviews from Spiceworks users about technology. Read more and join in on the community. Currently there is one article “Real World SMB Security” written by DigitalBlacksmith its well worth a read.

• Not confirmed but it appears the number of groups may go down, instead of having little groups for cisco or hp switches it will just be “networking” this will help with the amount of unanswered questions as well as make it easier to navigate the community. This may or may not happen though.

• Also we are meant to be seeing the release of Spiceworks 4.5 tomorrow yay

As we find out more we will update you

HTTPs for User portal

The User portal for logging tickets as checking progress on tickets now support HTTPS making the user portal more secure and useable by a wider range of companies requiring encryption for their helpdesk.

Updated Remote Collector Screen and HTTPS support

With the new HTTPS support you can also now use HTTPS for remote collectors. I don’t have two installs so can’t demo the https bit that well but the below shows the remote collector screen has also been updated.

New network Scan page with custom schedules

The area in which you set custom schedules has now been update to make it easier to understand and setup.

Network Map

One of the nice things about the beta is you can now make custom network maps, in beta 4 the area for editing and saving has been tidied up and speed up.

SQL Server Plugin

As per our earlier Spiceworks are working on a SQL monitoring plugin, this has required a lot of backend work and promises to be really good.

The above image is take from SQL server management and does not represent the plugin

Bug Fixes

As always with new releases Spiceworks have fixed lots of bugs… don’t really know where these were so I planted bugs on my screenshot

• 4.5 Testing Guidelines
• 4.5 Testing Plan

Screenshots coming soon

Read more and download on the community http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/82849

• • Use It on Larger, More Complex Networks – With features like scan scheduling for multiple subnets, SSL & HTTPS support with our new Apache web server and an editable network map, Spiceworks 4.5 is built to scale for all types and size of networks.

This is great, a lot of people have not been able to use Spiceworks because of the problem with SSL and HTTPS, now this is built in more people will be able to use Spiceworks on a wider range off networks.

• • Run a More Sophisticated Help Desk – Our users love our Help Desk app and we’ve worked to make it even better with ticket queuing and customized viewing for large teams and remote sites to streamline your support team.

With the new new ticket queuing and customized viewing large and even small teams will be able to streamline the helpdesk. Even as a 1 man band I will find this useful for bumbling up tickets from important people and of course down the ones from the pains… The customized viewing will allow people to keep track of different sets of tickets for either different groups off people or different problem types.

• • Extend What Spiceworks Can Do for You – Manage your company’s PC power consumption (courtesy of Intel), and monitor your SQL servers with new plugins.

Over time Spiceworks has improved the plugin system and 4.5 is no exception, 4.5 now brings a brand new interface for creating plugins that will allow you to have multiple scripts and even files on a plugin, this will make plugins much more powerful

• • Use Spiceworks in Your Local Language – New language packs in Spiceworks 4.5 mean you’ll be able to translate the application into whatever language you prefer. You can even contribute to developing better translations in your selected language.

For a while now Spiceworks has had a Internationalization plugin in which has allowed you to change the language but now 4.5 will have this built. Using the enhanced extension editor making new languages are a doddle. Spiceworks 4.5 will come with English and pig Latin by default.

• • …Plus, Enjoy Better Performance! – Spiceworks 4.5 will run up to 30% faster than previous Spiceworks versions in Internet Explorer (our goal is to make it on par with Spiceworks performance in Firefox) – just another step in our ongoing efforts to improve performance.

So every version of Spiceworks has brought speed improvements and with Spiceworks 4.5 now running on apache and a lot of time gone into cleaning up the code, Spiceworks could not run up to 30% faster than previous versions.

Hmm… Ok so that’s nothing new, I think I mentioned this in Spiceworks 4.5 beta out from when the Beta was first announced. Then again in Spiceworks 4.5 First thoughts a day after using the beta for the first time I put together my first thoughts on each off the new sections.

Something new though is the Spiceworks 4.5 video from Spiceworld2009 “Sneak Peek of Future Features”.

4.5 Video

At Spiceworld2009 the Francis & Greg (two of Spiceworks’ co-founders) did a nice half hour talk about the up coming version and the exciting features that Spiceworks are planning and working on.

If you have the time I suggest watching. It was great to watch

You can see more Spiceworks and Spiceworld videos on Spiceworks TV

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