Organizing your computers with Organizational Units
AD is the structure in which all your user, computer, and server accounts reside. As you add new users and computers into your domain, they will be automatically placed into a generic OU (called an OU), which is a type of storage container. You could get away with leaving all 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 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 2019 machine with the Active Directory Domain Services role installed. Specifically, I will be using the DC01 server that we prepped in the Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server recipe.
How to do it…
Let's get comfortable working...