Compare Windows Server Configurations

Use our Windows server comparison tool XIA Configuration to compare Windows server settings in your environment. This feature can be used to compare the current setup of a server to previous configurations or two different Windows servers.

Compare Windows server configuration - Demo Video

The following video demonstrates how to use XIA Configuration to compare different versions of the same Windows server:

Watch how to compare Windows servers using XIA Configuration

To see an overview video, visit the XIA Configuration product page. To see all the tutorials, visit our tutorials page.

Compare Windows server configurations

In this example, the current configuration of a Windows server is compared to a previous version to see what has changed.

To demonstrate this, firstly, the World Wide Web Publishing service is disabled in the services management console:

Screenshot showing the World Wide Web Publishing service is disabled — World Wide Web Publishing service disabled

Then an ODBC data source server name is changed:

Screenshot showing the ODBC data source server name — ODBC data source server name changed

Once the Windows server has been scanned again by the XIA Configuration Client, it is compared with a previous version:

Screenshot showing the Compare feature in the XIA Configuration web interface — Compare Windows servers in the intuitive web interface

The results of the comparison are displayed in the XIA Configuration Server user interface. The changes made to the server can be seen in the differences detected:

Screenshot showing comparison results in the XIA Configuration web interface — Only the differences in Windows server configuration are shown

Export to PDF

The results of the comparison can be exported to PDF. Click the image below to see an example.

Comparison results exported to PDF — Share the comparison results with others by exporting to PDF

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Export to XML

The results can also be exported to XML and viewed and analysed in Microsoft Excel:

Excel comparison screenshot — Analyse results further by exporting to XML and viewing in Excel

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