Organizational Unit Printers and Domain Naming

[Woodrow Holbert]

2 questions.

1) We're moving to AD and would like to group computers
and users into OUs. For example:
Admissions
Advancement
Student Services

Is it possible to assign to computers within ou's to use
specific network printers. Say UserA logs onto a computer
in admissions, he should get the admissions network
printer made available to him automatically with out
having to Add the printer. The printer does not follow the
user though to another computer.
I've been getting around this by putting a startup script
on the local machine to map to the specified shared
printer for that departments computer. But I would like to
manage this with one script if possible, through group
policies at the OU level.

2) With our migration to AD, the IT director would like to
implement an Exhange server for Faculty / Staff email. Our
current domain name is something like: TUNY
Our DNS name is something like: TU-NY.EDU

Would we have to change our domain name when we migrate to
TU-NY.EDU to ease the implementation of an exchange server?

Thanks in advance,

-Woody

Woodrow Dee Holbert
Manager of PC Services
Concordia College - Bronxville, NY

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

2 questions.

1) We're moving to AD and would like to group computers
and users into OUs. For example:
Admissions
Advancement
Student Services

Is it possible to assign to computers within ou's to use
specific network printers. Say UserA logs onto a computer
in admissions, he should get the admissions network
printer made available to him automatically with out
having to Add the printer. The printer does not follow the
user though to another computer.
I've been getting around this by putting a startup script
on the local machine to map to the specified shared
printer for that departments computer. But I would like to
manage this with one script if possible, through group
policies at the OU level.

You can create script and assign it as a startup script o r logon script
to map specific resources on the workstations in specific OU. I'm using
it with logon script - somebody on this list few weeks ago wrote about
such configurations with startup script

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/LogonScript_Printer.htm -
here You have an example of such script

2) With our migration to AD, the IT director would like to
implement an Exhange server for Faculty / Staff email. Our
current domain name is something like: TUNY
Our DNS name is something like: TU-NY.EDU

Would we have to change our domain name when we migrate to
TU-NY.EDU to ease the implementation of an exchange server?

You donn't have to name Your domain TU-NY.EDU but avoid to use single
word domain name, use for exapmle TU-NY.local as Your domain name. This
will not affect Your Exchange configuration and You will not have a
problems with "split brain" DNS setup