The ability of Visio 5.0 Professional to document a network remains unchanged in Visio 2000 Professional Edition.
Users can drag and drop network shapes from stencils to the page to build network diagrams manually.
Visio 2000 automatically lays out a network diagram from a text file or ODBC-compatible database file. Two-way links allow Visio and the database to update each other. And, new to Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition, AutoDiscovery can be scheduled to run unattended at a later time. When creating the network diagram, AutoLayout drops the gateway router on the first page and then connects all networks around it. The user specifies how many router hops to diagram and which objects to include.