Re: Deleting default OU's and Containers

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"Stian Ovrevage" <micromus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1f3e01c55619$86f6cea0$a401280a@xxxxxxxxxx
> Hi again!
> I'm posting here because the active_directory group is
> closed/unaccessible at the moment.
>
> I've created new OUs for my Users, Computers and Domain
> Controllers OU/containers, and moved the objects
> respectively. I cannot however manage to delete the old
> Containers/OUs, and I expect the redundancy to create a
> great amount of confusion and counter-intuity.
>
> Is there a way to delete the containers Domain\Users,
> Domain\Computers and the OU Domain\Domain Controllers (
> without ofcourse crippling the whole enviroment! )?

You should not delete the default containers.
You are also advised that moving the DCs out of the default Domain
Controllers container is considered a "bad idea".
I can understand creating new OU for the various users depending on your
management hierarchy and also for computers and even redirecting the
behaviour of the create new computer or user to point to another OU instead
of he default containers - but what do you hope to gain by moving the DCs ?

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"Stian Ovrevage" <micromus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1f3e01c55619$86f6cea0$a401280a@xxxxxxxxxx
> Hi again!
> I'm posting here because the active_directory group is
> closed/unaccessible at the moment.
>
> I've created new OUs for my Users, Computers and Domain
> Controllers OU/containers, and moved the objects
> respectively. I cannot however manage to delete the old
> Containers/OUs, and I expect the redundancy to create a
> great amount of confusion and counter-intuity.
>
> Is there a way to delete the containers Domain\Users,
> Domain\Computers and the OU Domain\Domain Controllers (
> without ofcourse crippling the whole enviroment! )?


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