Every network should have a customized manual of sorts with maps showing the network layout and written documentation on all the basic aspects of the network. Although you or some other IT superhero ...

Keeping documentation is a great way to ease your future hardware refresh and have what you need for insurance purposes. I recently completed a massive hardware refresh in which I updated nearly all ...

Step-by-step instructions to walk you through network-administration projects that can hone skills in IP addressing, Wi-Fi monitoring, documenting asset configuration, setting up DNS, and more. A ...

Microsoft Visio is one program that best suits everyone’s needs for drawing, preparing charts, and creating flowcharts. The industry-standard program lets you display complex diagrams quickly and ...

You don't have to spend a fortune on fancy software to handle basic network diagramming tasks. Here are a few free apps that are effective and easy to use. At some point, every administrator will need ...

Verifying the design of network components is quite different from testing the networks themselves. Network engineers test from the top down. If they encounter a problem, they look only as far down ...

In the previous article, I explained that if you want to build a detailed network diagram using Microsoft Visio, then one of the first things that you should do is to create an Excel spreadsheet ...