Unofficial Spiceworks

Click here to checkout all our Spiceworld2009 posts.

Missed Spiceworld 2009? Why not checkout all off Spiceworks-New’s Spiceworld 2009 posts.

There are so many cool things going on, we tried to post about them, from the live streams to just funny tweets we got abit of everything.

Spiceworks-News is already setup ready to start posting about Spiceworld London (http://www.spiceworld2009.com/london/) want to help us out? Well be there but we want some extra tweeters and posters to try and make it bigger and better than Spiceworld Austin.

Some people on twitter said the virtual event was just as good as being there thanks to the tweets and chats. Lets do the same for London and make Spiceworks want to come back.

Our Spiceworld2009 posts

Checkout some of the feedback

“Not only were the sessions very informative and fun, I also enjoyed the opportinuty to meet so many amazing people. Coming to Spiceworld truly gave me a better understanding of how close our community is. Scott Abel’s welcome keynote gave me goosebumps and motivated me to want to be even more active.” merlinpr in the community

“Loved it! Great info, great food, great “peer interaction”. I loved getting to meet so many SpiceHeads in person. I have noticed that when I read posts now I do so in the voice of the person that wrote it. Definitely worth more than the price I paid to go. ” SCAdmin in the community

More feedback on the community here

It was great to watch the live stream and even take part over skype, thanks to all the Spiceworks team and attendees that turned up.

So many names to mention. It was also great to see some vendors there and the talks they gave were great.

Have fun on the unofficial piss up

Time to get the plans ready for Spiceworld London

Spiceworks reduced the cost of SpiceWorld London to £145!

Why & How’d You Do It?
Too good to be true, you say? Not at all! One benefit of being our last SpiceWorld-On-the-Road of 2009 is that we’ve received feedback, learned lessons…& applied our findings along the way. Meaning we figured out how we can scale back all the bells-and-whistles and bring the most popular elements of a SpiceWorld (i.e. Spiceworks training, access to our product experts & the chance to hob-nob with other IT pros) across the Atlantic to you in a no-frills fashion – one that’ll cost us less than we originally anticipated.

The Bonus?
We know economic times are still tough, so hopefully the lower the price means more SpiceHeads who’ll be able to come…meaning you’ll meet more Spiceworks users from your area… and swap more Spiceworks tips & tricks + IT recommendations.

Where Do I Sign Up?
Visit the SpiceWorld London website to register — but hurry there are less than 100 spots available!

Jen just posted the below, are you from the UK can you give it ago?

Hey UK SpiceCorps Members & Spice Heads!

Quick favor! We’re applying for a Techworld’s award in the UK and could use your help.

If you could chime in here (in 500 words or less) and post:

“Why I like using Spiceworks & think it’s ‘the best network management product’…”

….we’d really appreciate it! Anything goes — just be as ‘real’ as you always are here in the Community.

And thx in advance – your authentic Spiceworks-using voice will allow us to add a heck of a lot more spice to our submission than others will.

Cheers,

Jen

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I’ve done my bit now your turn, you can see my attempt below; its not that great and not sure its really a “chime in” mainly as i don’t know what a “chime in” really is?

I like using Spiceworks and believe it is the best IT management product around because it provides me with all the tools I need to carry out my job in an effective manner for free. From the inventory to the helpdesk every little bit of Spiceworks is designed for IT pro’s by IT’s pro’s.

I find every aspect of Spiceworks useful; the inventory allows me to keep track of my whole network from new machines being added to new software being installed. With the added bonus of a helpdesk I can keep track of all my user’s problems and link them back to devices or software to help me gain the most out of the reporting features in which provide me with an accurate and up-to-date overview of my hardware.

Spiceworks is also great for alerting me when my servers go offline; with its powerful monitoring features I am able to keep track of toner levels and server uptime via email. It also provides me with a great way of keeping track of service providers that I use.

With new features being added and updated all the time Spiceworks is one of the fastest growing bits off software I use; there are so many great new things being added like the network map which now allows me automagically create a map of my network saving me time and money on network mapping software.

But by all means the best part of Spiceworks is the community; it’s a fun and exciting place to get answers to my problems and help people with theirs. It’s also a great way to keep to up to date with the latest IT news and get in contact with vendors about their products.

The Spiceworks team are also second to none for support; they all love their job and love being part of the community. They are willing to help you out where ever you need and regularly hold conference calls with members of the community about their product and services.

Spiceworks is the only bit of software that has adverts that I like; they are targeted to IT pros about things we will be interested in, also with people from Microsoft, AMD and IBM in the community we can keep up to date with product information and get hand on help with questions.

And that’s why I love Spiceworks in fewer than 500 words. There are bits that I have missed off im sure.

Also to show how much I love Spiceworks, checkout my website http://www.unofficialspiceworks.com/

Ohh and yes I did have to get some self promotion in there

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As mentioned in “Jay hits the plane’s” Jay came to London and I (akp982 (creator of Spiceworks-News) was there to meet him. After a tricky start, not knowing who was there for Spiceworks, me and Jay sitting there looking at each other for 5 mins thinking hmmm I half recognise him but I’m not sure… to other people not being sure if we were Spiceworks Guys or not… No thanks to Jay not wearing a Spiceworks shirt… Anyway in the end there were four of us…

Where were the rest of you? The drinks were on Jay… Anyway, we had a couple of pints and chatted about:

• Who we all are and who we work for.
• How we all use Spiceworks.
• Spiceworks 4.0, what we thought about the beta and the new features.
• The community and the new features coming soon and the ones that are hidden.
• Spiceworld and having two sessions for starters and the other for pro’s.

The meeting allowed us to give great feedback to Jay and well the Spiceworks team about what we thought of Spiceworks. Hopefully the new Spiceworks Geotag community feature that has been talked about will allow more IT pro’s to meet up. More information about the information we learnt coming over the next few days only on unofficialspiceworks.com.

I know I can’t wait until the next meet and I’m sure Morphology and AlwaysOn99.9% are up for another as well. Thanks for the beer Lay and Spiceworks.

p.s. Hopefully Jay will send me the group picture we took so I can post it up

Update: The guy who got out picture only got our trousers (or in the US pants…) no pic this time

By now you must have noticed the community site has been updated to look like Spiceworks 4.0, you may have heard rumours of Spiceworks being released soon…

Spiceworks-News has been informed that 4.0 is due to be released next week. Could this be related to Jay’s visit to London on Monday? [1] [2]

If you don’t know what Spiceworks 4.0 is where have you been? Read more on the Spiceworks community.

4.0 will include great features like a network map much enhanced user interface and user portal. Spiceworks 4.0 is easier for IT admins and Users.

Also keep a eye out on the Spiceworks-News blog for the unofficial Spiceworks 4.0 quiz and more 4.0 goodies and news.