deja vu...just going through this conundrum myself in the last few days...sigh

The advanced network features for Visio 2002 were discontinued recently:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/evaluation/indepth/network.asp

Visio Enterprise Network Tools and Visio Network Center  
 
Posted: July 01, 2002    
  
Microsoft Visio� Enterprise Network Tools has been discontinued due to lack of 
customer demand. Microsoft regularly evaluates its product offerings to ensure that 
customer needs are being met, and in this case determined that the resources would be 
better invested in other ways to serve the network documentation and network 
management needs of customers. Some of the functionality in Visio Enterprise Network 
Tools will be included in either future versions of Visio or an upcoming, still 
unannounced network management product. Visit the Visio Frequently Asked Questions 
page for more information. 

I was planning on upgrading my copy of Visio Pro 2000 to 2002 take advantage of these 
features when I ran up against this yesterday.

>I believe some of these features were also available in the Enterprise edition of 
>Visio 2000.

I managed to get a copy of 2000 Ent from our Select CD's today and try it and it did 
an import from the production AD rather painlessly.

I have heard conflicting information about the abilities of 2002 Pro to do directory 
imports and am left wondering if the functionality still exists but I don't have a 
copy in hand to try yet. 

The way I read the product info from the link Tony posted leads me to believe that 
functionality in Visio 2002 is only available in the discontinued ENT -

Section II. Importing from a Live Directory (Visio Enterprise Network Tools only)  
Section III. Exporting to LDIF (Visio Enterprise Network Tools only) 

./very confused


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD Visio Mapping Tool


There are some features available in Visio Professional 2002 to do this.  You can 
import information from AD, export to LDIF file, etc.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/visio/visio2002/maintain/vsaddiag.asp

I believe some of these features were also available in the Enterprise edition of 
Visio 2000.

Tony

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Molloy, Gene S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:38:47 -0600

I am just curious if anyone has come across a mapping tool similar to the
one for Exchange (ExMap.exe), that auto generates a VISIO diagram based on
the information in the Exchange directory.

This would be great for AD.

-------
Gene Molloy
VNU Enterprise Network Operations
Manager
VNU, Inc.
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