Re: Rename "Users" OU

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By default the users container isn't an Organizational Unit but just a
container for objects. I don't know of a requirement as far as the SID is
concerned (There is no well known ID that I know of it), that doesn't mean
someone else might know of one though. As a matter of fact there is a best
practices on OU's by Microsoft, checkout the link below.

I would definitely make sure you have a container (or OU) available with the
name of users before you create a new user in your domain though unless
during your creation you specify a new container for it to be placed into.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324949


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"Fred" <Fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to rename the "Users" OU to something else and then create a new OU
called "Users."

The issue is that an application MUST hold its accounts in the users OU,
but
managing these accounts intermixed with domain users and and default
accounts
is getting very muddy.

Are there any problems with renaming the OU (and leaving all the "normal"
domain accounts in the new OU) and recreating the OU just for the sake of
the
application?

Thanks in advance!


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