Unofficial Spiceworks

+Spiceworks are running another SpiceQuest this week in which you have to find all the clues hidden around the community to be in shot to win a $500 gift card from AppNeta.

While completing the SpiceQuest you will get to learn more about AppNeta, Nic and Sean and once complete and the quest is closed you will gain a shiny new badge!

So make sure you complete the quiz today!

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Where in the Spice are Nic and Sean?! Go on a SpiceQuest to find out… – Spiceworks Community
By: Elise S (Spiceworks), Forum: Spiceworks Blog, …complete it and you'll get a brand new SpiceQuest badge AND a shot at winning a $500 gift card from our friends at AppNeta!   You may remember hea…

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Get your mobile device questions answered by experts on the +Spiceworks community

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Have a question about supporting new mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Androids? Wondering what best practice management and security options are available? Or looking into deploying apps or docs to these mobile devices?

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Ask The Expert with Chris (MaaS360) on Mobile Devices – Spiceworks Community
By: Sean (Spiceworks), Forum: Spiceworks Blog, The Ask The Experts series is a feature where we tackle a particular subject where you can ask the questions, and a subject expert provides you answers….

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If you have any virtualization questions now is your chance to get them answered by +Dell experts Brett Martin and Nekrasov Ivan.

They are geared up with all the knowledge you need to find out if virtualization is right for you or how you can expand your current vritualized solutions.

Make sure you ask them a question this week!

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Ask The Experts: Brett & Ivan (Dell) – Spiceworks Community
Get help with understanding and using virtualization.

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The team at +Spiceworks have been working really hard again to build the features and fix the bugs that people have been crying out for.

5.3.7xxx's biggest new feature is Multiple Notification Types for Users, this means you can not set what notifications you want to go to what users making the email levels a lot more granular.

They have also fixed 6 major bugs as well as a few tiny ones in the backend.

Make sure you update today to get the new features!

Download it from: http://download.spiceworks.com/Spiceworks.exe

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Spiceworks Update 5.3.75902 Now Available – Spiceworks Community
By: Nic (Spiceworks), Forum: Spiceworks Blog, Spiceworks 5.3.75902 is now available. It includes the following new feature: Multiple Notification Types for Users – you can now specify multiple notifi…

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With performance improvements of up to 20% this beta is really worth testing and providing feedback on. As well as all the new features below there are also 100's of bug fixes to help improve your experience.

– Tracking for licenses shared across multiple software apps – You are now able to track volume licensee of products other than Microsoft and also change individual keys into volume license keys
– Improved ticket form, foreign language email support, and cloud service management – The new ticket form us been updated to allow better support for custom attributes and better language support
– Office 365 integration with a dashboard view of your mailboxes
– Windows Intune plugin to send alerts straight to your help desk
– Minuteman UPS Support
Check it out at the link below

Remember this is only a beta so don't use it in production

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5.3 Beta II Build Now Available (5.3.75618)
By: Nic (Spiceworks), Forum: Spiceworks 5.3, The second build of the Spiceworks 5.3 beta is now available for you to try out. Testing and feedback from you is an integral part of every release cycle …

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Spiceworks entered more into the social market with SpiceButtons  allowing SpiceHeads to SpiceUp webpages where ever they go. The team behind this new feature  have already got some big names to add the buttons including Eaton and untangle and well now Unofficial Spiceworks although I do need to tidy the buttons up a little but that’s another nights job.

At the moment there is one style of button but it sounds like there may be more styles if successful, would like to see the amount of spices displayed, well see what happens. I’m also not 100% sure how often the shared links section of the community are viewed but this will probably grow as the new feature grows.

Follow Button

Wanna make sure IT pros to engage with you, where they work, when they’re working?

This is a simple button which works as a link and sends visitors off to a vendor page on the community, when on the page SpiceHeads can then follow the vendor to get updates. Hopefully this will drive some new smaller vendors into the community in which actively participate in the forums and engage IT Pro’s like me where and how we want to be engaged not with cold calls. It will be exciting to see how well this works and if it brings on more vendors.

SpiceButton

Content is King! Especially when it’s easy for IT pros to Spice Up IT content in the Spiceworks community.

This is more interesting upon clicking the Spice button SpiceHeads get a pop up which they can enter comments about the site and publish it onto the community for other users to see and comments on. If this works and becomes a success (and I hope it does) it will be a really useful tool for IT pro’s to keep tracks of websites / links that other IT Pro’s feel are important and worth sharing. Overtime I do expect to see a re-haul of the shared links section but I can’t confirm this, would seem sensible.

We’ll keep tabs on how well this works. For now make sure you goto the new developers site and give it ago. Also make sure you Spice Up this site

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ALSO 14 days till SpiceWorld 2011!!!! See you there!

SpiceWorld 2011 is only a month away and this year is a big year for Unofficial Spiceworks / me (akp982) as its the first year I will actually be there. None of this trying to watch it over the dodgy streaming that has come with years past this year I will be there in person, to meet and chat to you all.

While in the past I have done my best to cover off the past SpiceWorlds remotely it hasn’t gone that well. This year will be different!!!!

This year there will be lots of coverage on Unofficial Spiceworks, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ as well as a full write up of my complete trip from the UK to the USA posted on the community and this blog shortly after my return / recovery. I have got countdowns going everywhere and I’m really excited to finally get to meet everyone I talk to online as well as Learn and “play” with my fellow IT Pros.

This is the forth annual user conference and this year having to have a new venue due to the size SpiceWorld has grown to it will be bigger and better than previous events. Mainly because I will be there.

With some great sessions already planned like Demystifying Microsoft Licensing, Taking User Management from Unruly…to User-friendly! and Build a Network on a Budget. The mix of sessions run my the sponsors and SpiceHeads I think has been key to how successful the event has been and will be.

Hands down one of the best IT conferences of the year.

Justin Dorfman, Sys Admin Mahalo.com Inc. See who else is raving »

There have been so many good things said about it, no wonder why people go back every year.

Read more and book your tickets now on the official SpiceWorld 2011 site.

Last Thursday the third Spiceworks 5.2 beta was released with 5 major feature updates and over 210 publicly announced bug fixes (as with all companies there will be more than that hidden away that they don’t want to shout about) this was a major update and shows the dedication the team have.

The bug fix count doesn’t just show the dedication of the team… But also the dedication of the community to find and report the bugs. Once the users reports the bugs on the forum (which has approx. 677 posts) the SpiceLords (Spiceworks employees) jump on it and work as hard as they can to get it fixed. The team behind the developments and the QA are dedicated to making sure you get the product you want and that it works really well. One of the really cool things they do is that they will try and fix those little niggles that annoy you as well as making the new features.

The updated features in this release include:

• Software Overview – The overview of the software on your network had more UI enchantments to provide you the information you need quick and make it look prettier (Cole likes pretty).
• License Tracking – There have been some small improvements in the way that you add and edit license keys, all decided to make it less painful to keep a track of your software.
• License Manager Plugin – Just a simple plugin update to make sure it works with the new version.
• Ink & Toner Purchasing – You can now purchase ink and toner from HP store’s. When you hover over ink cartridges for supported HP printers you’ll see a link to purchase the cartridge from HP’s store.
• Bandwidth Monitor Plugin – They have updated the Bandwidth Monitor plugin to make it compatible with 5.2. Its now quicker and easier to get a bandwidth overview of your network.

I can’t wait for 5.2 to come out of beta so I can start to use the new features on my real install.

If your going to try Spiceworks 5.2 make sure you read the 5.2 Test Plan and 5.2 Testing Guidelines.