I looked at Ecora - wasn't very happy -- but that is just my opinion.

I was happier just using Visio and creating the AD and Exchange diagram
myself. Took a while - but it served it's purpose.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Larry A Duncan
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Visio Mapping Tool

Ecora.com offers some solutions related to this that may help, but they
come at a cost obviously. 

___________________________________________
Larry A. Duncan, MCSE/MCSA
Manager, Special Projects
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Free, Bob
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Visio Mapping Tool

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(r) 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/prodt
echnol/visio/visio2002/maintain/vsaddiag.asp

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

Tony

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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.

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Gene Molloy
VNU Enterprise Network Operations
Manager
VNU, Inc.
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