Creating Containers

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Dave

I want to create a new container under my "Recipients" to put "Alternate
Contacts" in. I don't see "Container" under "New" when I right click the
recipients folder/container. How do I create new containers?
 
Hello Dave,
Please define what is "Recipients", where are you about to do this? In the
Active Directory?

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Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

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Yes. In Active Directory Users and Computers. I have a Users
folder/container, filled with my users. During the migration from 5.5 to
2003, some containers were created including "Headquarters," "Recipients,"
and "Offsite Employees." Each of these containers holds contacts, groups,
and an occasional user. I want to organize my active directory better, and
create a couple more containers. How do I create a container? It seems
that I can do is create Users, Contacts, Groups, Shared Folders, etc.
 
I can only create an OU at the same level as Users. I want to create an OU
in the Users folder.....I'm finding Active Directory to be more limited than
I expected.
 
Wack,

And what exactly do you want to do with that OU inside the USERS container
( which you can not do, as Paul stated, due to the fact that a container is
a subset of an OU ).

Also, you can not link any GPOs to containers ( well, not exactly true:
Site- and Domain-level GPOs are linked to those 'containers'. But most
instances call for an OU ).

Oh, I see what you want to do ( have to read all the posts in this
thread! ).

I might post this to the Exchange 2000 Admin group as well.

HTH,

Cary
 
Choose New-organizational unit. You cannot create an OU under Builtin o
Users. That is probally the problem


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slytsi
 
Users, Computers, Built-in and others with the "folder icon" are containers,
and not Organizational Units, Containers exists because they are supported
by NT4.0 Net APIs, If you in place upgrade an NT4.0 Domain, existing objects
will be found in the users container. Always use OUs when you design the
directory for new objects, don't move existing important objects from the
containers since it may broke functionality of threes accounts.

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Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

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Cary Shultz said:
Wack,

And what exactly do you want to do with that OU inside the USERS container
( which you can not do, as Paul stated, due to the fact that a container
is
a subset of an OU ).

Also, you can not link any GPOs to containers ( well, not exactly true:
Site- and Domain-level GPOs are linked to those 'containers'. But most
instances call for an OU ).

Oh, I see what you want to do ( have to read all the posts in this
thread! ).

I might post this to the Exchange 2000 Admin group as well.

HTH,

Cary
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