Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Creating a Directory Diagram

Visio Professional 2007 includes templates for diagramming directory services structures from any LDAP-compliant source as well as templates specifically for working with Active Directory. Visio Professional 2007 provides a way to prototype new directories or plan network resources by dragging and dropping shapes. You can design a service and even set policies and permissions for network objects, but you do it all manually.

Whether you’re diagramming generic LDAP objects or Microsoft Exchange servers in Visio Professional 2007 you use a similar approach. Because these diagrams maintain a model of your directory structure, the way you work with shapes in them differs somewhat from the way you manage shapes in other ...