> Does anyone out there use a specific software package for documenting the
> steps involved in rebuilding a server?
Notepad.
> I find I try to do this in MSWORD,
> but the service packs, patches and configuration items change so much that
> it is difficult to keep this data up-to-date.
I think there is another problem. When you actually need to
rebuild your server, who says you are going to have MS Word at
hand? Though you most definitely shouldn't depend on just an
electronic version of the document, having one next to the paper
version can be very convenient to copy-paste serials,
configuration lines etc.
The added advantage of plain text is that you can feed it to the
command line. Firewall configuration, network configuration,
non-default registry keys, user accounts for services etc. are
all set from the command line and it is just a matter of
rerunning the scripts.
Jochem
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