I've used that tool quite a bit. Be prepared to do some judicious editing.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 6:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] AD OU Modeling tools Perhaps this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13380 "The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange Server topology. The diagramms may include domains, sites, servers, organizational units, DFS-R, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed." Kurt On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Mark Liechty <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 2 part question. And a possible answer…… > > 1. I am looking for a tool to document an existing OU implementation. > Over the last decade they have had at least 5 different guys building and > placing > things in the AD and have almost as many OU as people. I want to get a > document of “as-is” in a way that I can get to Word\Excel\almost any > other format to send to the people I need to get agreement on for the > re-design. > > 2. I am looking for an easy modeling tool for the re-design. My > current thought is to build out a set of empty folders in Explorer then dump > the > structure to txt files. Not sure that this is a great idea and I am > looking for ideas of what to do that may be better. > > Again the end game is to have before\after models for people who are > technical enough to understand most of what I am trying to do but not > enough so that you could ever give them AD access. > > > > > > > Mark Liechty > Cell 916-769-4975 > [email protected] >
