User Location

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Mark [Support]

Hello everyone.

Running Windows 2000 AD Sp4 all hotfixes. Hopefully a simple question.
When I open the Active Directory Users and Computers manager, I see our AD:
name.local

When I click name.local, I see most users in this area. There is however a
subfolder called users where some most users are listed. Which area should
they be in and does it make a difference?

Cheers
Mark
 
Mark said:
Hello everyone.

Running Windows 2000 AD Sp4 all hotfixes. Hopefully a simple question.
When I open the Active Directory Users and Computers manager, I see our AD:
name.local

When I click name.local, I see most users in this area. There is however a
subfolder called users where some most users are listed. Which area should
they be in and does it make a difference?

Cheers
Mark

It all depends on wether or not you want to apply GPOs to your users. In
any case, you should try to keep them all together for the sake of
simplicity. Then you need to decide if you want sub-OUs for your users,
to classify them, or if that isn't required..

Guillaume Ross
 
Mark,

As Guillaume stated, there is no right or wrong answer to this question
based on the information that you have give us. What you are seeing is the
standard WIN2000 environment in that all users are placed in the USERS
container ( by default ). I am curious as to what the sub folder is called,
who created it and why.

One of the main reasons for creating Organizational Units is so that you can
better manage your user account objects. You can create one OU and put all
of your user account objects in that and then create and link Group Policies
to that OU so that all of your user account objects have the same policies
( for example, Office XP installed, Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.1 installed,
etc ). However, you could also create OUs based on Departments or based on
Geographical Location or whatever makes sense to your environment and what
you need to do and how you plan to best do that 'what'.

HTH,

Cary
 
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