Mastering Active Directory

Organizing objects

An Active Directory domain controller supports holding nearly 2 billion objects. As the number of objects increases in the infrastructure, the effort we need to put in, in order to manage it also increases. If we have a proper structure to group these objects into small groups, then we have more control over it and we know at a glance where we can find the specific object:

In the preceding example, Rebeladmin Corp. has nearly 100 salespersons. They are also using nearly 150 desktops and laptops. There is no problem putting all these objects into the root of the hierarchy (under default containers). But it will not be easy ...