Re: Manage AD computers based on AD Sites and Services
- From: "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:02:40 -0400
No. Sites and services has nothing to do with the domain NCs nor PCs. The only machines you should see in sites and services are machines that create objects there such as domain controllers, the Exchange ADC, etc.
Machines other than DCs autodetect their site when they log into the domain themselves (and occasionally throughout the day they recheck to make sure their site is accurate in case the topology has changed).
You would need to write something that runs from the PCs themselves to figure out what site they are in and then have them move themselves to another OU. I don't think it is a good idea, it sounds like a patch for a bad app deployment/design.
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Rhidian wrote:
Hi,.
We use a few pieces of software now that rely on having PCs allocated to the right OUs with AD Users and computers. Is there any way of Using the sites and services console to move computers around within AD users and computers ? Example: WSUS is very fussy if PCs don't contact it within xx days but some of our PCs move around a lot- we have 8 WSUS sites, so a PC could be moved to anywhere. AD Sites and services knows which ip range/subnet belongs to each logical site, so... does anyone know of a program that can help ?
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