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Managing Organizational Units

As discussed in Chapter 7, organizational units help you organize objects, set Group Policy with a limited scope, and more. In this section you’ll learn how to create and manage organizational units.

Creating Organizational Units

You usually create organizational units to mirror your organization’s business or functional structure. You may also want to create units for administrative reasons, such as if you want to delegate rights to users or administrators. You can create organizational units as subgroups of a domain or as child units within an existing organizational unit.

To create an organizational unit, follow these steps:

1. In Active Directory Users And Computers, right-click the domain node or existing organizational ...