Re: AD Design

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From: Mark Darbyshire (NO_SPAM_m_darbyshire_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:48:08 +0100

Laura (and others) - your all stars

I passed on your comments and mine - now I'm being taken seriously - MS
consultants have been commissioned to do an internal report for this
customer by July 5th and hopefully they will assist in my cause to get this
bag of nails sorted out......

A big thanks to you guys for your input here........

Darbs.....

"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
> --
> Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
> -Oscar Wilde

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