Re: huge user OU
From: Jeff Senter (jsenter_at_erols.com)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:11:59 -0400
Asking around, they are plaing on have around 100 to 150 people with
admin rights and somewere between 25 and 200 machine OU that they can
apply differant polocies to. They are assuming that they thay can apply
GPO to people based on which OU there workstation is in.
Simon Geary wrote:
>As a rule of thumb there are two reasons to divide your users into different
>OU's. If they will have different Group Policies applied; and if you will
>use delegation of administration to allow different users to administer the
>accounts.
>In your case, if all users will be given the same Group Policies and the
>same admins will be responsible for the accounts then there is no problem
>having that many users in one OU, although searches will take a little
>longer.
>The less OU's the better, in my opinion, as it keeps things simple. I don't
>think large numbers alone would justify creating more than one OU.
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>"Jeff Senter" <jsenter@erols.com> wrote in message
>news:OgjsOlVTEHA.760@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
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>>I do some consulting for an University and they are planing on haveing
>>all of the users in one large OU. The plan on breaking the machines up
>>in to smaller OU. THey belive that thay can manage this thoug GPO
>>easily with this configuration. SOme thing tells me this is not going
>>to work well but I can not put my finger on it. Or am I wrong am this
>>configuration will work just fine.
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