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Modify Active Directory’s User/Computer Account Placement

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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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March 24, 2008 at 1:08 pm

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