Hi We are a 1500 employee organization and have 15 sites. How do you guys have active directory users and computers architectured ? Is there a way I can automate and computers in the domain to the right containers based on locations. Right now we have one container where we stick all the computer objects but looking for a solution to categorize based on regions\sites. Please provide any suggestions if possible.

Hi, some reading for you: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/cc268216.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/bb727085.aspx you can choose to design for administration/management of the environment (e.g. by technology/device type), and/or include the networking/topology of your WAN.Don

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=157704 pls download the infrastructure plaaning and design guide for active directory.you can refer the all the documents in that download. Darshana Jayathilake

Best Practice: Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1 This is a great read for anyone, even if your AD structure is already in place.Rich Prescott | Infrastructure Architect, Windows Engineer and PowerShell blogger | MCITP, MCTS, MCP Engineering Efficiency @Rich_Prescott Client System Administration tool AD User Creation tool

Hi, some reading for you: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/cc268216.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/bb727085.aspx you can choose to design for administration/management of the environment (e.g. by technology/device type), and/or include the networking/topology of your WAN.Don

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=157704 pls download the infrastructure plaaning and design guide for active directory.you can refer the all the documents in that download. Darshana Jayathilake

Best Practice: Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1 This is a great read for anyone, even if your AD structure is already in place.Rich Prescott | Infrastructure Architect, Windows Engineer and PowerShell blogger | MCITP, MCTS, MCP Engineering Efficiency @Rich_Prescott Client System Administration tool AD User Creation tool

The real question should be, why do you want your machines seperated into different OU's? If you want to apply different group policies based on geography or department etc Be specific about what element is more improtant to specify machine settings in your business. Which change has the higher impact on machine config in your business, moving a user from SiteA to SiteB or from DepartmentA to DepartmentB. Also weigh up the number of Sites with unique settings Vs the number of departments with unique settings One may prove more admin heavy to manage.