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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook Core infrastructure, IIS, Remote Desktop Services, Monitoring, and Group Policy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789135930
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Learning the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Core Infrastructure Tasks 3. Internet Information Services 4. Remote Desktop Services 5. Monitoring and Backup 6. Group Policy 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Organizing your computers with Organizational Units

AD is the structure in which all of your user, computer, and server accounts reside. As you add new users and computers into your domain, they will be automatically placed into generic storage containers. You could get away with leaving all of your objects in their default locations, but there are a lot of advantages to putting a little time and effort into creating an organizational structure.

In this recipe, we will create some Organizational Units (OUs) inside Active Directory and move our existing objects into these OUs so that we can create some structure.

Getting ready

We will need a DC online for this recipe, which is a Server 2016 machine with the Active Directory...

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