Organizational Units

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Bill Hand

I want to setup an OU structure like this:

Locations (OU)
|
|-NY (OU)
| |- ADMIN (OU)
| |- IT (OU)
|
|-NC

Is it bad to go three OU's deep? Should I just lump all the NY Users in the NY OU?

Thanks.
 
The largest "gotcha" with nested OUs is in the area of Group Policy
processing: if you have a GPO linked to Locations, two GPOs linked to NY,
and another GPO linked to IT, it can create substantial logon times for a
user in the IT OU. This is something that warrants testing in your specific
environment, since network bandwidth between client and server will make a
difference in how quickly GPOs get copied from the server.
 
Design the directory as you want to administrate it, and after requirement
of policies. it's not too deep design.

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Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

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