Modify Active Directory’s User/Computer Account Placement
I don’t know about you, but it would be helpful for me to have computer/user accounts created in an OU instead of the default CN-Users location. Microsoft provides a solution for this, granted it’s not the best but it will do. The following commands are used to do this.
User accounts: redirusr ou=myusers,DC=corp,dc=com
Computer accounts: redircmp ou=mycomputers,DC=corp,dc=com
In mapping the computer build process for zero touch deployment this was a problem area as I use GPOs heavily. Now I can have all computer accounts created in a “staging” OU that GPOs apply too. Sure they still have to be moved, but with proper naming and maintenance scripts this also can be accomplished.
ref: Q324949
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Categories: Miscellaneous
Active Directory, Administration, Microsoft, Windows Server
