CENTREL Solutions released XIA Configuration v8.1 earlier this year and it has a number of improvements including richer detail retrieved from VMware systems . VMware virtual machine documentation generated by XIA Configuration now includes virtual hardware, permissions, templates, snapshots and more. The information retrieved from VMware hosts has more detail including network configuration, licensed features, security profiles and more. VMware distributed switches are now also fully documented with information on port groups and uplink ports. - Visit the VMware capability page  to find out more. - A free trial version is available.

Over the last two months, I've been publishing YouTube videos to the CENTREL Solutions channel .  I'm also an avid watcher of YouTube videos and noticed that some videos had a snazzy end screen with clickable areas that took you to other videos or to allow you to subscribe to the channel. Knowing this was possible, I started to research how to add it to my videos.  I discovered the Annotations area in the Video Manager which allows you to add hotspots with links to videos, playlists, subscribe and more. I wasn't sure how to add the thumbnail screenshots but eventually figured out that you could embed them in the video itself then overlay the hotspots in the YouTube video manager later once it was uploaded. Add a YouTube End Screen In the last week or so, YouTube recently changed the annotations area.  It is now called "End screen & Annotations".  Also, as you can see in the screenshot above, if you go to annotations, you are now shown a warning that...

If you want to read advanced audit policy configuration, the most reliable way is not to trust any of the Group Policy reporting tools but instead to run the following command from an elevated command prompt: auditpol.exe /get /category:* Advanced audit policy configuration can also be viewed in the auditing tool XIA Configuration . How to read advanced audit policy configuration video