Apologies for the noob question regarding Windows and VSphere. I am looking to solve a problem in my current organization where we never seem to know the current state of our servers due to too many people being able to log in and make changes. While I want to move us to something like DSC (and ultimately will), I am just trying to see if there are tools that will tell me the current state of any of my machines so I can compare them.
Example information that I would like to see reported would be:
- OS Version (this one is easy but included for completeness)
- Services installed and versions
- Frameworks/SDK's installed (e.g. .net, java, and go versions)
- User folder structures (to see if the same folders exist on both servers)
- IIS state (services, routing, etc.)
I'm fairly new to this space, especially for windows servers, and would appreciate any help or direction.