Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

The geographical model

This is one of the most commonly used model 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 administrative control:

In the preceding diagram, the organization has two branches in Asia and Europe. The first level of the OUs was created based on geographical location and then it was 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 ...