Unofficial Spiceworks

Last night Nic announced  5.0 Beta IV Build Now Available (5.0.55210)

The fourth build of the Spiceworks 5.0 beta is now available for you to try out. Testing and feedback from you is an integral part of every release cycle and we appreciate the time and effort you put into giving us the feedback. In addition, you’ll be sure that the final release is a seamless upgrade for you.

This build has some major and exciting changes and throughout this article I will walk you though as many of them as possible (some of them need Rackspace services in which I do not currently have).

Interface

The first thing that will hit you when you open up this build of Spiceworks is the new interface, it has been near completely redesigned (it’s still being worked on and could change again). This new layout is designed to make Spiceworks easier to navigate as well as making it easier to view your data.

Rather than the navigation being down the side it’s now at the top in drop down style menus. These seem to work really fast and with the performance fixes in this new GUI clicking from page to page is a lot quicker even compared to the earlier beta.

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The latest build of Spiceworks 5.0 has been released “5.0 Beta III Build Now Available (5.0.54687)” this build is the first in which we see that start of the much-anticipated “People View” aimed to make people management easier.

The new people view will eventually allow you to:

• See user’s devices (to help you keep track of those ones that “go missing”)
• Sort out which users or departments cause you hassle
• Checkout all the info you already have on your users (via Active Directory) as well as do things like unlock accounts and reset passwords

When you first open the new people management area you are presented with a “departments overview” this allows you to browse each of your preset departments. (Click the images for a larger view.)

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If you have been testing the Spiceworks 5.0 beta or have come across the Spiceworks 5.0 community group you may have noticed the “Developer’s Notes” down the right hand side in which contain cool little insights into what the developers are working on at the moment.

Some of these are really cool like what looks to be added ability to add and remove columns from ticket views in a future version:

So you wanna add/remove columns from your ticket views, eh? *tinkers*

- Stephen (Spiceworks)

Of course none of these snippets mean what they are working on will make it to the final release, but hopefully well see some cool new stuff reading though them all.

You might enjoy even more horizontal screen real-estate with the upcoming UI changes.

- Jeff (Spiceworks)

Check them all out now on the community “Spiceworks 5.0 Features, News & Beta Testing”

The “SpiceKing” of everything MSP in Spiceworks Lawrie5252 has just created a nice post on the community about how the new features in 5.0 will be a great help for MSP’s:

I guess by now most of you are aware ‘Spiceworks 5.0 beta I‘ has been released for community testing. Wow isn’t it good?

I wanted to make a little feature for you about the changes in 5.0 beta targeted at MSPs and Service Providers generally.

Firstly and most outstanding of the new features would have to be the Multi-site Helpdesk feature. This is very specifically targeted at MSP although bigger…

Read the whole post on the community “Spiceworks 5.0 MSP accented features.”

Checkout his Lawries other posts on how MSP’s can get more out of Spiceworks here.

So as most people know the first Spiceworks 5.0 beta was released on Wednesday and seems to have already been a hit with SpiceHeads around the world. Not all the features planned for the final version have been released in this beta they will be slowly added in as the program moves along.

The SpiceLords have however pulled out another stunning version of Spiceworks and in this beta build (5.0.53561) we see:

• Multi-site Helpdesk – Using remote collectors you can now setup multiple helpdesks all feeding back to the one place. This is designed to help MSP’s get more out of Spiceworks and the helpdesk, allowing them to manage multiple clients from one location, securely. Each helpdesk portal and email notification can be tailored to each site and in the future each site will also be able to integrate into separate active directory domain.

• Purchasing – To help you manage all your IT purchases in one place 5.0 brings a new purchasing area to help you manage and track IT purchases against tickets. Adding this into Spiceworks will allow you to quickly charge out the right price for the right item to the right department as well as giving MSP’s a way of tracking sales. From the purchasing screen you can also click directly though to CDW or do a community search for the product you are looking for.

• LDAP Authentication via SSL – Keeping account information safe and private is often a key priority for SpiceHeads around the world, so to help IT pro’s use feel safer using Spiceworks you can now use SSL for LDAP Authentication.

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Yesterday Spiceworks announced the release of Spiceworks 5.0 beta 1.

Checkout the Spiceworks 5.0 group for more information.

Unofficial Spiceworks will be doing a full review of the beta(s) soon

The Spiceworks 5.0 beta group has been updated, with information on the new features we are going to get.

5.0 delivers the next frontier of “everything IT” with features to help you manage your network, people & purchasing: Config Management. Newly Tuned Network Map. Microsoft Hyper-V Support. People View. Purchase & Cost Tracking. ….& more, letting you navigate your wild-frontier of a workday like the IT maverick you are!

Spiceworks 5.0 is set to be their biggest release yet with some huge new features for managing your network, the people and purchasing.

The major thing for a lot of people will be the speed, Spiceworks believe the start-up will be around 40% quicker and after that the pages will load 30% quicker. This is a major boost to help allow you to navigate it quicker and more effectively.

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The Spiceworks 5.0 release group has been created and opened for business, there are some cool new Planned features.

1. Performance Performance Performance: We work on this in every release and this one is no different. We’re taking a couple of major steps in this release. We’re upgrading the underlying ruby infrastructure to version 9. We’re also improving the javascript to load things faster.
2. Virtualization: Support for Hyerp-V and basic management capability. Start/Stop VMs, etc.
3. SNMP v3 support. We can now scan devices using SNMPv3
4. Purchase List improvements. Capture concepts like ordered but not delivered and purchase price.
5. Network Map Improvements.
6. Remote Help Desk Sync. To support the MSP use case remote sites can accept tickets and sync with the central Spiceworks server.
7. Network Config Mgmt: Ability to snapshot configuration of routers and push config updates to supported devices.

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