LAS VEGAS, May 7, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the debut of its Microsoft® Visio® Enterprise Network Tools, an add-on product to its business diagramming and technical drawing program, ...

Sadly, this tool was removed some time ago. Even so, it is possible to create a detailed network diagram using only Windows 11 and Microsoft Office (including tools such as Excel and Visio).

But Microsoft also still offers Visio Plan 1 and Plan 2 subscriptions, and those get you extra diagram styles for cross-functional flowcharts and swim-lane diagrams, shapes for network equipment ...

To make diagram creation even easier, Visio lets you connect to live data sources like Excel, Exchange, and Microsoft Entra ID, ensuring your diagrams are up-to-date, even as your data changes.

In the previous article, I explained that if you want to build a detailed network diagram using Microsoft Visio, then one of the first things that you should do is to create an Excel spreadsheet ...