Question

Creating Organizational Units in Windows Server 2008 R2

Answer 1

Introduction

For those of us who are administrators we should already know, just in case I mention that the Organizational Units are administrative containers within the Active Directory that are used to collect or group objects that share common requirements for administration, configuration or visibility.

Creating an OU (Organizational Unit)

• Well, first of all we make sure that we are logged in as an administrator, if not, we log out and log in as such.

• Open the "Active Directory Users and Computers" add-on. As we have created our MMC with this add-on, (we have already seen how to create our custom MMCs), we open it and position ourselves in that add-on.

• We expanded the domain node. Press right button and select "NEW" -> "Organizational Unit".

• Next we establish the name of the new OU. In this case, we will be creating an OU with the following name I have called "USERS", but the container could have the name we need, for example we can perform OU for different types of objectives, it can be cited for a deployment of Some GPO to a certain group of users or teams.

• We continue on the next screen by pressing "OK" , we position ourselves in the OU that we have just created. We will give you Right button -> properties .

• In "Desctiption" we write a description as: administrative users . Here we can in a few words describe our OU, for a better understanding of its objective. This is a step that sometimes we do not take into account, but it will help us a lot when our Domain contains an unmanageable amount of OU. Then we give "OK".

• Now we repeat the process to create the OUs: " clients", "groups", "administrators" and "servers". As to start to build or better to organize our fleet of users and teams. With this we can throw very detailed directives to a limited group of either users or teams.

With this we can start managing our domain, with the creation of OU Containers to launch policies.

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