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    • coliver
      coliver last edited by

      Do you have Office365 with Team Sites? I found that the hosted Sharepoint wiki is really good for this type of thing. Especially since it doesn't rely on anything local, except internet access.

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      • gjacobse
        gjacobse last edited by

        If you don't have O365, you could use the existing website as a place to work from.

        This is where having it hosted is 'good' as you get some tools which you can use. Build a subdomain and install a Wiki or as @travisdh1 mentioned Drupal and run from there.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by

          MediaWiki, Sharepoint's Wiki, OneNote are all decent tools for this.

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          • RamblingBiped
            RamblingBiped last edited by

            If you're looking for something small, portable, and secure, TiddlyWiki is a decent option. I use it for most of my documentation as it is standalone and doesn't require a separate server/service to be running to use it. If you're needing to supply multiple users with access and/or have multiple people editing documents, it probably isn't the best choice.

            http://tiddlywiki.com/

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            • momurda
              momurda last edited by

              We use MediaWiki

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              • J
                Jstear last edited by

                For existing systems, check out SYDI

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                • thwr
                  thwr last edited by thwr

                  I'm using a SharePoint wiki, lots of Visio drawings and some UML/SysML diagrams. But using (on-premise) SharePoint isn't smart at all. Heavily depends on a lot of things, and you want your documentation to be accessible when things go south.

                  Another thing on my todo list: Migrate to some lightweight blog or wiki engine that doesn't need any database, webserver and serverside scripting language. Something you can run from your USB stick on any OS in any JS capable browser for example.

                  https://hexo.io/ looks pretty nice.

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                  • MattSpeller
                    MattSpeller last edited by

                    Interns work a treat

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                    • DustinB3403
                      DustinB3403 @MattSpeller last edited by

                      @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                      Interns work a treat

                      I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

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                      • DustinB3403
                        DustinB3403 @Jstear last edited by

                        @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                        For existing systems, check out SYDI

                        I think I've used SYDI before, sounds very familiar....

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                        • thwr
                          thwr @DustinB3403 last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                          @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                          Interns work a treat

                          I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                          Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

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                          • scottalanmiller
                            scottalanmiller @thwr last edited by

                            @thwr said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                            @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                            @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                            Interns work a treat

                            I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                            Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

                            They can't legally learn on what's driving the business in the US.

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                            • thwr
                              thwr @scottalanmiller last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                              @thwr said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                              @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                              @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                              Interns work a treat

                              I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                              Agree. They need to learn, sure, but not on what's driving your business 😉

                              They can't legally learn on what's driving the business in the US.

                              You are mean 😉

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                              • MattSpeller
                                MattSpeller @DustinB3403 last edited by

                                @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                Interns work a treat

                                I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                                You need to work on your beatings, technique must be off

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                                • thwr
                                  thwr @MattSpeller last edited by thwr

                                  @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                  @MattSpeller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                  Interns work a treat

                                  I'm plumb out, and I often hate the resulting work provided...

                                  You need to work on your beatings, technique must be off

                                  Mwaha... One of my colleagues just said this today: "You are an expert at punishing people" 😉

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                                  • DustinB3403
                                    DustinB3403 last edited by

                                    So I have used SYDI before (after rerunning it it all came back as "OH YEAH!")

                                    And this is a rather great tool for basic system documentation, but not really so great for Disaster recovery kinds of documentation. But I could certainly use this to generate documentation on the systems in the business as a starting point, or reference system.

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller @Jstear last edited by

                                      @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                      For existing systems, check out SYDI

                                      Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?

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                                      • DustinB3403
                                        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                        @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                        For existing systems, check out SYDI

                                        Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?

                                        I'll abstract some info from a system I'm scanning, give me 15.

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                                        • thwr
                                          thwr @DustinB3403 last edited by

                                          @DustinB3403 said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                          @Jstear said in IT Documentation Helpers:

                                          For existing systems, check out SYDI

                                          Anyone got screenshots of SYDI? What does it actually look like?

                                          I'll abstract some info from a system I'm scanning, give me 15.

                                          Scotty, you'll get 5 or we're toast

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                                          • DustinB3403
                                            DustinB3403 last edited by DustinB3403

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                                            There's obviously a lot more, but yeah... 75 pages is a lot to go through.

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