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Organizational Units vs. Containers 1

Creating an Organizational Unit (Example 1) 1

Creating an Organizational Unit (Example 2) 2

Organizational Units vs. Containers

In the screen cap below, in the left panel, notice the “container” items (e.g., “Builtin,” “Computers,” etc.) underneath the domain. An “OU” is a special kind of “container”. A group policy can be applied to an OU, but not to a regular container. When a group policy is applied to an OU, this policy can apply to all the devices within it.

Creating an Organizational Unit (Example 1)

Right-click on the domain.
(In this case, the domain is “dcjk.jobskillshare.org”).
(menu displays)

Click New/Organizational Unit.
(“New Object – Organizational Unit” dialog box displays)

Enter the name of the OU, for example, “desktop”.

Click OK.
(Organizational Unit is created).

Notice the containers “Computers” and “desktop”. We can apply a group policy to “desktop” but not to “Computers”.

Creating an Organizational Unit (Example 2)

Let’s create another Organizational Unit.

Highlight the domain “dcjk.jobskillshare.org”.

Click the “Create a new organizational unit in the current container” button.
(“New Object – Organizational Unit” dialog box displays).

Enter a Name (e.g., “Staff members”).

Click OK.
(“Staff Members” OU is created).

The sysadmin can now apply a group policy to this OU. This policy could, for example, give access to a server that stores sensitive Accounting information. The sysadmin could add a user to the “Staff Members” OU. The user would then have access rights to the Accounting server.

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