Active Directory Administration Cookbook

Managing Containers and Organizational Units

A default Active Directory domain comes with default containers and a default Organizational Unit (OU). The default containers serve as default locations when you create objects, for instance, the Computers container, and for important objects, for example, the Builtin container. The default Domain Controllers OU serves as the location for domain controller objects.

The following containers are available by default:

• Builtin
• Computers
• ForeignSecurityPrincipals
• Keys
• LostAndFound
• Managed Service Accounts
• NTDS Quotas
• Program Data
• System
• TPM devices
• Users

In Active Directory users and computers (dsa.msc), some of these default containers are hidden from sight, unless you check the Advanced Features ...