Best Practice: Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1
I have been doing Active Directory and Group Policy work for a while now and I have developed my own set of rules that I try to use where ever possible. So below I have written down all my rules in no particular order for you to go over and use for yourself. You may only chose to use only some of these rules or you might want to use them all depending on your circumstance. This is a two part series where I will first talk about designing you Active Directory Organisation Unit structure and then in part 2 (Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2) I will discuss some more ideas for applying Group Policy to the OU structure.
I want to be clear that these are only guidelines and not rules that need to be strictly adhered to. In almost all case there are exceptions to these guidelines and you might even find your self implementing them in a hybrid approach. I intend for this web page to be updated on a regular basis as none of these rules are set in stone and thing obviously change all the time.
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