Re: OU Structure in Active Directory

[Brandon Payne <payneb () SVCC EDU>]

Thank you all.  Yeah my goal is to keep it organized and simple as possible,
but also keeping policies applicable to certain OU's in mind.

90% of our faculty have laptops and need to be able to login to their
machine from home (and some could be gone at most a semester), so they will
need certain policies applied separate from Staff.  We also have very few
Staff members who also have laptops, so that will throw in a curveball.

Since we are running Server 2008R2 we are able to itemize some of the GP
settings with GP Preferences.

-- 
Brandon Payne
Technical Support Specialist
Information Services
Sauk Valley Community College


On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Alex Keller <alkeller () sfsu edu> wrote:

>  i used to believe in creating lots of nested OUs for the sake of
> organization but over the years i found that this is often more trouble that
> it is worth. now i am going with the less is more philosophy, creating OUs
> where needed for group policy settings or where it makes sense to show a
> hard delineation. manually setting up OUs by department gets messy quick(people move around or are a member of 
> multiple depts), i suppose if you
> were getting this info from an identity provider that would make it a little
> cleaner. we are currently separating out servers, staff/faculty
> workstations, and lab computers, on the user side everybody goes in one
> massive OU and we use loop back processing to process GPOs by machine
> instead of user.
>
> best,
> alex
>
>
> On 7/21/2010 7:46 AM, Brandon Payne wrote:
>
> Currently we are in the designing and implementing phase for the first time
> with Active Directory.  We are in a single domain environment.
>
>  How are you structuring your OU's? How are you targeting your users in
> the OU structure?  By dept? By employee category? By machine type (desktops,
> laptops)?
>
>  For ex -
>
>  Employees
>    Staff
>    Faculty
> Labs
>   Students
>
>  What has or has not worked out for your school in the long run?  Do you
> have any recommendations based on your experiences?
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Brandon Payne
> Technical Support Specialist
> Information Services
> Sauk Valley Community College
>
>
> --
> Alex Keller
> Systems Administrator
> Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
> Office: Burk Hall 153 Phone: (415)338-6117 Email: alkeller () sfsu edu