As we know, Christmas is a time for giving, and this year, Karl Palachuk of Great Little Book is giving away a really nice gift, the  SMB Books FREE Sampler CD

The CD Sampler contains, more than seven hours of audio and video training plus hundreds of pages of excellent content.

If you want to get your hands on this, head over to the  SMB Books FREE Sampler CD Blog Listing and order yourself a copy.

Thanks Karl, this is a great gift.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!

As a network consultant, I am always looking for great ways to document my clients network. One the best toolkits I have used in a long time, besides Karl Palachuck’s network documentation workbook is something called SYDI (Script Your Documentation Instantly).

At the most basic level SYDI consists of a collection of scripts which collects information from your servers and networks, then writes the data to a report. It automatically creates a word document with information about the server. Although this is a very simple tool, its one of the most powerful that I have ever seen.

Take a trip over to their website on http://www.sydiproject.com/ to have a look at the tool