Org Chart Wizard using Active Directory as the data source

T

Tom Philo

Can VISIO 2003 use AD (Windows 2003 version) as the data source to create an
org chart?

I have it right now going to Exchange, but Active Directory has more
information fields (and is the source for Exhange anyway) and I want to go
to the source to pull the data fields to create the organization chart.

Thanks,

Tom
 
C

Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]

AD doesn't show in the Wizard's list per-se, but you can link to may
databases via ODBC. Do you know if AD has an ODBC adapter?

I should probably know stuff like this, but I've only used the .NET
DirectoryServices namespace to mess around with Active Directory.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP
 
M

Mike Mueller [MSFT]

Another option is to write your own program to extract data to a text file
from AD then use the wizard to create the org chart from the text file.
 

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