Server Documentation Tool

Windows Server Documentation Example

View an example document generated by XIA Configuration of a Windows server, branded with a fictitious company Contoso Foods.

Windows Server documentation example generated by XIA Configuration

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The document above provides a concise view of your Windows Machine settings. View a document with all options included.

Find out more about how you can apply your own branding.

Watch our server documentation software in action

This video demonstrates our server documentation tool XIA Configuration.

Tutorial Video

Learn how to scan and document Windows machines with XIA Configuration:

Server settings documented by XIA Configuration

Find out more about the Windows settings documented by XIA Configuration below:

Server Roles and Functions

Browse to the following pages to find out about the information documented for each server role:

Or learn more about the information documented on all enabled Roles and Features

Compliance Benchmark

The Windows machine compliance benchmark provides a basic security overview of settings against best practices covering the following areas:

Information used by this benchmark is provided by the following pages:

• Microsoft password policy guidelines
• Microsoft account lockout policy guidelines
• Microsoft security options guidelines

The advanced audit policy is based on the Microsoft audit policy recommendations "Stronger Recommendation".

Software

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the software information documented by XIA Configuration.

Hardware

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the hardware information documented by XIA Configuration.

Screenshot of hardware information in a document generated by XIA Configuration

Security

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the Windows machine security settings documented by XIA Configuration.

Networking

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the networking information documented by XIA Configuration.

Support and Maintenance Contracts

Manually add the following support and maintenance information to your Windows machines:

Inventory

Create an inventory, including server roles, by automatically detecting and scanning Windows machines that are members of a domain.

Relationship Map

Generate a map showing the relationships between Windows servers, DNS, IIS, SQL and other items:

Reporting

In addition to generating full Windows machine documentation, you can run reports across multiple machines within an environment to check compliance and help both IT and business users get the information they need.

The reports are web-accessible and include filtering, sorting and exporting to CSV and PDF.

Track Changes and Compare Windows Machines

Compare different Windows machines to see differences or compare two versions of the same Windows machine to see changes. For example, compare the latest configuration with the previous one.

Supported Versions

The following versions of Windows are supported by XIA Configuration: