Re: AD Design

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From: Jimmy Andersson [MVP] (jimmy_noSpam__at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:43:17 +0200

I agree with Laura, this is an administrative disaster.
You should ask the designer if he/she would like to administrate this, I
sure wouldn't....

Regards,
/Jimmy 

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"Laura A. Robinson [MVP]" <geekwench@snippit.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b2ef9df707c752f98aa1f@msnews.microsoft.com...
> circa Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:27:28 +0100, in
> microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory, Mark Darbyshire
> (NO_SPAM_m_darbyshire@hotmail.com) said,
> > All - does this sound good to you.
> >
> > A rather large company (10's of thousands of users) have decided to
rename
> > the "Users" OU to "Standard Users" and then plonk all of the users for
an
> > entire Active Directory into it - no OU structure at all.....  Not only
this
> > but 12 DC's to support the lot over 250+sites and they think this will
work
> > ok???   To add to this the fact that they are implementing group
policies
> > based on group membership and not on OU membership - it all seems very
wrong
> > to me.
> >
> > So,  best practice - is this a good idea I ask?
> >
> This is a disaster. Whoever came up with this needs a LOT of
> education about AD. You can tell 'em I said that. ;-)
>
> Laura
> -- 
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