Mastering Active Directory

The geographical model

This is one of the most common models for large organizations. The OU structure will be based on the geographical location of the branch offices. Each of these branch offices may also have its own IT team. So, the main idea behind this model is to delegate administration control:

In the preceding example, the organization has two branches in Asia and Europe. The first level of the OUs will start based on geographical location and then be further categorized based on the object types. Asia and Europe both have Users and Computers child OUs in their second level. In this model, on most occasions, each geographical location ...