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    • thwrT
      thwr @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

      @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

      Interns work a treat

      I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

      Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @thwr
        last edited by

        @thwr said in IT Documentation Helpers:

        @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

        @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

        Interns work a treat

        I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

        Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

        They can't legally learn on what's driving the business in the US.

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        • thwrT
          thwr @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

          @thwr said in IT Documentation Helpers:

          @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

          @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

          Interns work a treat

          I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

          Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

          They can't legally learn on what's driving the business in the US.

          You are mean 😉

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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

            @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

            Interns work a treat

            I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

            You need to work on your beatings, technique must be off

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            • thwrT
              thwr @MattSpeller
              last edited by thwr

              @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

              Interns work a treat

              I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

              You need to work on your beatings, technique must be off

              Mwaha... One of my colleagues just said this today: "You are an expert at punishing people" 😉

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
                last edited by

                So I have used SYDI before (after rerunning it it all came back as "OH YEAH!")

                And this is a rather great tool for basic system documentation, but not really so great for Disaster recovery kinds of documentation. But I could certainly use this to generate documentation on the systems in the business as a starting point, or reference system.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Jstear
                  last edited by

                  @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                  For existing systems, check out SYDI

                  Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                    @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                    For existing systems, check out SYDI

                    Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?

                    I'll abstract some info from a system I'm scanning, give me 15.

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                    • thwrT
                      thwr @DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                      @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                      @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                      For existing systems, check out SYDI

                      Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?

                      I'll abstract some info from a system I'm scanning, give me 15.

                      Scotty, you'll get 5 or we're toast

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by DustinB3403

                        0_1468432524663_WINWORD_2016-07-13_13-53-50.png 1_1468432524666_WINWORD_2016-07-13_13-54-45.png

                        There's obviously a lot more, but yeah... 75 pages is a lot to go through.

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                        • thwrT
                          thwr @DustinB3403
                          last edited by thwr

                          @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                          and the report is filled with useful information? Like correct product keys for example? All NICs and IP addresses listed per host, not just the first one?

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            75 pages per host?

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              Here is the Word document Navigation view of what the software generates.

                              Assuming this system nothing was excluded it seems pretty inclusive.

                              0_1468432718121_WINWORD_2016-07-13_13-57-41.png

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                              • thwrT
                                thwr
                                last edited by

                                That's quite exhaustive, will take a look

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                  75 pages per host?

                                  In that range, another system I just ran again was 68 pages.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    Here is some documentation from the SYDI developer.

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                                    • J
                                      Jstear
                                      last edited by

                                      It doesn't have to be that many pages, you can filter out what you want, don't want.

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                                      • J
                                        Jstear
                                        last edited by

                                        Limiting the Length of a SYDI Report

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403 @Jstear
                                          last edited by

                                          @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                          Limiting the Length of a SYDI Report

                                          Thanks for that, I know it can be shortened.

                                          (not trying to say it couldn't be etc)

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                                          • J
                                            Jstear @DustinB3403
                                            last edited by

                                            @DustinB3403 I meant to reply to SAM, as I don't think he liked the fact it was 75 pages.

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