Spiceworks surely is slowly becoming everything IT

I can’t wait to meet the team at SpiceWorld London http://www.spic...009.com/london/ its going to be a great day full off information and hands on traning.

I’m just one of the 700,000 IT admins that use Spiceworks everyday, and yes I do come into work in the morning and fire up Spiceworks to see what is going on.

I’m not employed by Spiceworks and I haven’t been paid to say that either.

I did have the complete opposite experience that you did though. The first time I used it a year and a half ago it was able to find and categorize about 90% of my network. I figured out what the other 10% were and it has worked great ever since.

Disclaimer: I’m a Spiceworks employee. We’re pretty geeked out about our product, which is why Myshell, Jay Hallberg and myself have all popped in over here.

I can only speak for myself but Spiceworks is invaluable to me in a small business environment as it just makes it so much easier for me to run my network etc.

I’m “very IT literate” but don’t know everything there is to know, particularly when it comes to networking but Spiceworks enables me to do my job, look after my users, and keep our network ticking over very nicely. In my situation, I am able to escalate level 3+ calls out to my support contractor, but below that generally either I have the knowledge or it “tap-into-able” thru Spiceworks.

I do however know of many other users who run it in completely different environments (and sizes) to me.

I guess you’ve not tried it for a while, but it is bloody good and as Jay Hallberg has pointed out – it is free. (That’s a winner for me every time!)

You say about firing “spiceworks up in the morning” to see how things are going. You sure you’ve installed it several times already? Doesn’t sound like it to me, coz that ain’t how it works buddy.

Perhaps you should install it and give it a try again before posting any more and making yourself look a bit of a dick.

Also, feel free to take advantage of our free (yes, free) support. As you know networks are complicated and it could be a variety of issues with Active Directory, WMI, or firewalls that are causing the issues you experienced. We’ve tried to address those in the product and our help pages and videos but have a support team that will help get you a complete scan and answer any other questions you have.

4.0 is going to rock, i use the beta at the moment and love it

I’ve tried this service out a few times over the years and it’s never really done anything useful. It manages to inventory about half of what’s on my small business network after a long wait and that’s pretty much all it does. For most devices it can actually manage to find it just provides an IP address and for windows machines it can sometimes show the services running, which dozens of free apps have done for about a decade now. And I’m not sure why it’s less effective at finding IP devices than free tools that have been around for 25 years. So my vote for the next great feature would be “something that makes this useful”. Of the “700,000″ IT professionals no doubt 699,000 downloaded and tried it because it’s free and never returned.

Show some average monthly stats, not the number of people that registered to try it out, IT people will always try out new stuff. I can’t imagine that given it’s limited feature set that IT admins actually come into work in the morning and fire up spiceworks to see how things are going.

While Spiceworks cannot run on a Mac (unless you’re using a VM) you can inventory Macs and Linux machines.

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