Comments on: Network documentation and inventory made easy with free tools.

By: David Homer

David Homer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:21:54 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

Oops sorry about that, I think the link got moved when we updated the web site – please see the following direct link.

http://www.centrel-solutions.com/XIAConfiguration/workgroupedition.aspx

Regards,

David

By: Jonathan Merrill

Jonathan Merrill — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:10:35 +0000

I eagerly went out to the website to check out a free version of XIA and… didn’t see a free version. :(

By: David Homer

David Homer — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:38:20 +0000

Hi, if you need to document things like

Windows Servers
SQL Server Instances
Active Directory
Group Policy
and encrypted password lists

It might be worth taking a look at the FREE Version of XIA Configuration.

http://centrel-solutions.com/xiaconfiguration/

Any feedback on the software would be much appreciated.

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:00:41 +0000

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By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:49:29 +0000

Sloth I would love to hear how it goes with Spiceworks & your organization.

By: Slothman

Slothman — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:15:47 +0000

I downloaded Spiceworks and gave it a test drive as I was testing LAN Sweeper….Spiceworks won.

The ability to have the Helpdesk and other IT Services documentation in one location was the seller for me.

As I mentioned in a comment on Change Management. We looked at a product called Service-Now.com and it is just way too big for our operation, not that the price was wrong….and Spiceworks handles most of the functions of Service-Now without all that extra overhead.

Being ITIL compliant would be great…but it is not necessary for us, so Spiceworks is going to go through its paces and see if we want to go full bore with the pro version.

Thanks guys for recommending this product.