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With the development of version 4.1 XIA Configuration is able to store external documents within the XIA Configuration database. This has been asked for to allow manual free form information such as word documents and visio network diagrams to be stored along side existing automated information generated by the XIA Configuration Client Details can be automated extracted for many document types Access control and version control are automatically available for all external resources managed by XIA Configuration. New resources can be created easily by selecting the resource file from the file system using the same interface as with other manual item types.

For more information on the Windows Server documentation abilities of XIA Configuration please see the following Document and Audit User Rights Assignment with XIA Configuration We've recently been asked about the auditing of User Rights Assignment as seen in the Local Group Policy Editor. Having looked into this issue it is apparent that this cannot be done with any high level API such as WMI and requires the use of P/Invoke and the Win32 method LsaEnumerateAccountsWithUserRight. I've seen many posts on the Internet on the topic but I haven't seen a simplified example of this in use so have writen a quick C# sample application to enumerate the various rights and privileges and display the users assigned to that right in a grouped listview as per the screenshot below. This can be downloaded from our web site in Visual Studio 2010 format http://www.centrel-solutions.com/support/tools.aspx?feature=auditrights The sample supports the following Pr...

With the development of XIA Configuration version 4.1 we are adding support for network switches This will help customers in a number of ways including detecting incorrectly configured port and duplex settings, finding out what devices are connecting to a network switch and how switches are linked to each other as well as being able to audit the manufacturer, model and serial number of supported devices. As with all item types within XIA Configuration customers can expect Change tracking Version control PDF output  Item level security The agent uses standard SNMP to communicate with network switches and can be configured to detect the devices using a broadcast address or network range. For more information see Document and Audit Network Switches with XIA Configuration