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How to change the default location of new user accounts and computers

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When you create a new user in active directory , new user account and computer put in predefined Active Directory OUs “Users” and “Computers”. DCPROMO put all newly user accounts in  “Users” AD container and all computers in “Computers” AD container.

The Users and Computers containers aren’t AD organizational units (OUs), so you can’t link OU-level Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to them. If you want to apply GPO on OUs level You must create new OUs for users and computer objects, it will make easier management of Active Directory. Its a good practise to change the default location of newly created users and computer objects. You can change the default when creating users using scripts, You can use Redirusr and Redircmp command-line utilities

Example:

Organizational Unit: usersou

Domain                  : Contoso.com

redirusr ou=usersou,dc=contoso,dc=com

Before executing this command , please make sure that “usersou” must exist in active directory.This command is only compatible with windows 2003 server , you cant execute in windows 2000 server and NT 4.0.