Re: Question on organizing Computers

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From: Jonathan Jesse (jjesse_at_ftpb.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:03:56 -0400

Laura,

Thanks so much for help, it confirms I was thinking correctly.

A follow up question:

There is the organizational unit in Active Directory Users and Computers ->
my domain -> Computers . Is there a way to create these new Organizational
Units under the Computers main OU?
It would then look like this my domain -> Computers -> Servers and also my
domain -> Computers -> Desktops

When I right click on computers -> new, it expands out to include Computer,
Contact, Group, Printer, User, or Shared Folder. When I right click on the
domain -> new it expands out to include the above plus Organizational Unit

Let me know if I'm not making sense

"Laura E. Hunter (MVP)" <hunter(nospamplease)@sfs.upenn.edu> wrote in
message news:%23oIUZfzmEHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Sounds like you have it right - one of the main purposes of Organizational
> Units (or OUs) is to group multiple computers together that require
> similar GPO settings. Check out this document to familiarize yourself
> with creating and linking Group Policy objects to different OUs:
>
> http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBK/tip5400/rh5499.htm
>
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> "Jonathan Jesse" <jjesse@ftpb.com> wrote in message
> news:ujVKxMzmEHA.2096@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Sorry for the cross-posting as this deals with both groups as it deals
>> with both groups
>>
>> I am working on getting SUS working through my domain and would like to
>> setup two groups to have different policies in them.
>>
>> Currently all of my computers, including servers, are in the "Computers"
>> folder in Active Directory and I would like to create two "Orginzational
>> Units" or "Groups". (In quotes cause I'm not sure the best title for
>> this) One would be the desktops and would have one SUS GPO applied to
>> them, and the other group would be servers and have a different GPO setup
>> so I don't have a ton of traffic when both the desktops and the servers
>> check my SUS server.
>>
>> Is this the best way to do it? Or should I be going along a different
>> route?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
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