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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @thwr
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      @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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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403
                                            last edited by

                                            @Jstear no problem.

                                            @scottalanmiller here is some drive information

                                            0_1468434901510_WINWORD_2016-07-13_14-33-20.png

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