Force New Computer to OU

[Haggy Shanakiev]

Hello everybody,

i'm a newbie in a windows server system, i have a question that want to ask

Is it possible to force a new joined computer to be a member of an
Organizational Unit ?
So that someone who have an account in a domain can join a new computer,
but those computer will be automaticaly linked with Group policy

Thanks In Advance,
Agus Setiawan

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hello everybody,

i'm a newbie in a windows server system, i have a question that want to ask

Is it possible to force a new joined computer to be a member of an
Organizational Unit ?
So that someone who have an account in a domain can join a new computer,
but those computer will be automaticaly linked with Group policy

Thanks In Advance,
Agus Setiawan

See tip 7617 » How can I get the NET commands to add users, groups, and computers to an Organization Unit that I define?
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

See tip 8552 » In which Organizational Units is the logged on user able to create machine accounts?





Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Jorge_de_Almeida_Pinto]

Hello everybody,

i'm a newbie in a windows server system, i have a question
that want to ask

Is it possible to force a new joined computer to be a member
of an
Organizational Unit ?
So that someone who have an account in a domain can join a new
computer,
but those computer will be automaticaly linked with Group
policy

Thanks In Advance,
Agus Setiawan

when you join a computer for which not account exists in AD a new
account will be created in the Computers container. You can however
pre-create the computer account in the OU you want and then join the
computer.
To force the creation of a computer account in a certain OU when the
account has not been pre-created you can use NETDOM and specify the OU
where you want to create the computer account.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Haggy,

You can also look into a network installation where you use a network boot
disk ( like Bart's Modular Boot disk ) and an 'answer file'. You simply
have to provide the OU in which you would like the computer account object
to reside in that answer file. That might be a solution......

I am assuming that you are in a WIN2000 Active Directory environment. And
that you are trying to install either WIN2000 Pro or WINXP Pro.

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012

WIN2000 Active Directory MVP
http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
(soon to be updated!!!)
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com
(soon to be updated!!!)