I've used it as well. In my simple environment, it's a bit of overkill, but worth it, IMHO.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >> > >
