Forest -> Tree -> Domain (Where does OU fit in?)

[DPK]

thanks.

 

[Fencer128]

I think you were going in the right direction. I think organisational units are sub groups of domains.

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Kristi2k]

.........can you be more specific?

 

[Garion]

An OU is an Organizational unit, an Active Directory container that holds other objects. Think of it as a subdirectory that contains files. It's not the root directory, but all subdirectories and sub-subdirectories. It can contain users, printers, other OU's, servers, etc.

(Caveat: I'm not an AD guy, but this is pretty standard X.500 stuff)

- G

 

[stash]

Yep OUs are a way to group items for administrative purposes in a single domain. In NT 4, the domain was a flat namespace. So there was no way to assign certain rights and permissions to part of the domain without applying it to everything in the domain.

OUs allow you to groups objects in a domain so that they may have different rights, settings, etc from other objects in the same domain.