How to create organizational units in a Windows 2000 domain (308194)

SUMMARY

This article describes how to create organizational units.

Organizational units are Active Directory containers into which you can place users, groups, computers, and other organizational units. You can create organizational units to mirror your organization's functional or business structure. Each domain can implement its own organizational unit hierarchy. If your organization contains several domains, you can create organizational unit structures in each domain that are independent of the structures in the other domains.

This article explains how to create domain organizational units.

An organizational unit is the smallest scope or unit to which you can assign Group Policy settings or delegate administrative authority. By using organizational units, you can create containers in a domain that represent the hierarchical, logical structures in your organization. You can do this to help you manage the configuration and use of accounts and resources based on your organizational model.

Organizational units can contain users, groups, computers, printers, and shared folders, as well as an unlimited number of other organizational units, but cannot contain objects from other domains.

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How to Create an Organizational Unit

1. Log on as Administrator.
2. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users And Computers.
3. Use one of the following steps:
   • Right-click the domain object or another organizational unit in which you want to create the organizational units, point to Add, and then click Organizational Unit.
   • Click Create New Organizational Unit on the toolbar.
   • On the Action menu, point to New, and then click Organizational Unit.
4. In the Name box, type the name for the new object, and then click OK. An icon with the appropriate name is created and inserted in the list. You can now add other objects to the organizational unit such as users, computers, groups, and other organizational units.

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Note You can use the Active Directory Users And Computers tool with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional if you install the Active Directory Administrative Tools. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: back to the top

How to Modify the Attributes of an Organizational Unit

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users And Computers.
2. Expand the domain.
3. Click the organizational unit, and then click Properties on the Action menu.
4. Click the appropriate tab for the organizational unit properties that you want to modify, and then type values for each property.

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