Re: OU Best Practice Question

From: Deji Akomolafe (noemail_at_akomolafe.dotcom)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:40:09 -0800

OU is really for organizing things "the way you want". And, no, there is no
default Computers OU. The one you see there is a "container" and you can not
apply Group Policy to it. So, if you see Group Policies, software
distribution, SUS/WUS in your future, I recommend that you create computers
OU heirarchies. I have this to be efficient for me. YMMV 

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"JMolay" <JMolay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85DEBE4F-D4FF-48B5-BE97-419A64E64BB3@microsoft.com...
> I have a situation in which I have created an OU for each functional
> department within the company. It was suggested that I create a user and
> computer sub OU for each of the departmental OUs. Is there something to be
> gained by doing this or is it really of no benefit. Also, will having a
> computer OU within each departmental OU create problems with the default
> computer OU that comes as part of Active Directory? Any insight or
> documentation on this subject would be most appreciated.
>

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