Documenting Your network

- Creating a Crash Cart


Automating data center environmental monitoring with RFID tags
Document your Network
Network Documentation Checklist
Sample Campus Network Documentation Policy - Network technologies and trends
Ten steps for network documentation: Channel checklist
www.network-documentation.com/files/NetworkDNA_Network_Documentation_Checklist.pdf

- General Links


Making Disaster Recovery Easy: Asset Page -- Redmond Channel Partner
Network Diagnostic Crash Carts | Networking content from iPro Developer


- Using PowerShell to Documenet Your Network

Generate Exchange Environment Reports using Powershell | Steve Goodman's Exchange & Office 365 Blog
Office Generate Exchange Environment Reports using Powershell
PowerShell Script: Generate an Exchange 2010 Health Check Report
Use PowerShell to Document Exchange Server Prior to Upgrade - Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Use PowerShell to Document Your Network Configuration - Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Why I no longer hate writing documentation… | PowerShell Pro! :: PowerShell Pro!


Active Directory

documentation - What is important to document in an active directory server? - Server Fault
Documenting Active Directory Infrastructure the Easy Way - Ask the Directory Services Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Documenting Microsoft Active Directory with Microsoft Word and PowerShell | Carl WebsterCarl Webster
José Active Directory Reporting (English Version) | faq-o-matic.net


Audit Planning

Network security audit guidelines: Inside the importance of audit planning
Pre-audit planning: Four keys to a successful IT security audit

Diagrams, diagram tools, and stencils

Custom Visio Stencils
Network diagrams and documentation: Part 1
Products & Services - Visio Stencils - Cisco


Hardware and Software Inventory

Compiling a hardware and software inventory
Network cabling documentation


Network Inventory/Audit

netsense.info/downloads/network_docs_list.pdf
Quick Reference: Network Documentation Checklist - Tech Pro Research
Router Expert: Conducting a network inventory, part 1
What's up? Get a general network audit

Network Services Audits

Router Expert: Why you need a network services audit


Security Audit

A guide to internal and external network security auditing
How to select a set of network security audit guidelines
Network security assessment: 10 tools you can't live without
Preparing for a network security audit starts with monitoring and remediation
What is involved in a network audit?


Tools

ADScribe - Active Directory documentation template
Amazon.com: KVM Console to USB 2.0 Portable Laptop Crash Cart Adapter - Laptop KVM Server Console Adapter: Electronics
Bcdedit
Cacls
Dcdiag
DiskPart Commands
Document and Audit Active Directory Domains and Group Policy Settings
Download Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer from Official Microsoft Download Center
fping.com
Geeks Informed: Handheld "Crash Cart" for Network Server Systems (KVM2USB)
Gpresult
Gpupdate
Ipconfig
Ldp
Msinfo32
Nbtstat
Net use
Netdiag
Netdom
Netsh Command Overview for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2
Nslookup
Shutdown
Sysinternals Suite
Using NSlookup.exe
Wmic
Xcopy