Server Configuration Change Reporter automates auditing and reporting of all changes made to server configurations: hardware devices, drivers, software, services, networking settings, etc.

Even minor configuration changes made to servers can potentially impact your users and cause major disruptions to businesses. Every time a change is made, it makes a lot of sense to properly document and communicate it, especially when the servers are maintained by multiple team members. Another example is very common: changes made yesterday broke your systems, and you don't remember the old settings. A popular web resource for IT experts, TechRepublic, considers failure to maintain change documentation the 3rd among 10 worst things IT experts can do. Logging all changes manually is a time consuming and error-prone task, and requires signficant efforts in environments of all sizes, whether you have 1 server or a thousand. Also beware of unauthorized changes, because nobody will ever document them at all.

Server Configuration Change Reporter is a free tool for automated auditing and reporting of all changes made to server configurations: hardware devices, drivers, software, services, networking settings, etc. The tool centrally monitors multiple servers and sends daily summary reports about any changes detected through the last day. New hardware devices, driver upgrades, changes to services and applications - no change will pass behind the scenes, no matter who made it and how. You just setup this tool once and start getting daily summary reports about all changes, grouped by server name.

Server Configuration Monitor helps you to carry out the following auditing and reporting tasks:
Detect and report on changes made to your servers including changes to computer settings, services, device drivers, local users and groups, Windows registry, program installation, hardware installation. Reports include information about what changes were made, who made the changes and whenwere they made. Changes to the following parameters are concerned:
Hardware configuration: Monitors, Display Adapters, Sound Devices, Hard Drives, CD-ROM Drives, Floppy Drives, IDE, SCSI, Keyboards, Pointing Devices, Serial Ports, Parallel Ports, USB Controllers, USB Hubs, Network Adapters, Printers, Infrared Devices, Base Boards, BIOS settings, Buses, Cache Memory, Device Memory, DMA, IRQ, PCMCIA Controllers, Physical Memory, Processors, System Slots;
System configuration: General System Properties, System Restore, Environment Variables, Startup and Recovery, Network, Port Resources, Local Groups, Local Users, Registry, System Drivers, System Services**, Remote Desktop;

File system configuration: Logical Disks, Disk Partitions.
1. Report on previous and current values for every change.
2. Generate on-demand Web-based reports.
3. Create custom reports (can also be ordered from NetWrix).
4. Store collected audit data and enable historical reporting for any period of time.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this server utility software.