Re: Newbie Q: where do I put users?

Dear Tpaz,

placing the users under OU's depends on you whether you want to apply Group
Policy to these users or not, because under the defaul Users container you
will not be able to apply any Group Policy on the users under this
container.

if you want to do more management and control over your users by applying
Group Policy to your users, then you should move your users outside thier
default users container.

now, you need to organize the users, for example, based on thier Value to
the company. as a company off cource your have managers, then maybe you have
supervisors , and normal users. you need to clasify the Users OU based on
the company Organization Chart as one example.

i hope that my post was helpful to you and from it you decided how you will
re-organize your users.

please let me know if you need more help and examples.

Regards
Alaa Alian Al-Ankar
Blog: http://ExchGuru.Blogspot.com

"Topaz" <rsimpson505@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know this is an elementary question but . . .
Given a simple, single-domain, single-site organisation of about 50
people,
where would you put the user records?
1. all under the pre-defined container "Users"
2. all together in an OU called, e.g. "OurUsers"
3. if we have three departments, each with an OU, under the OU of
their respective department
4. other . . .
Advice much appreciated.



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