Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Organizing objects

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

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