Mastering Windows Group Policy

Moving machines from one OU to another

Now that we have created some new OUs, what about placing objects inside of these OUs? Every domain user account that you have, as well as every device that is joined to your domain, has an object inside Active Directory that has a home somewhere. In well-organized directories, that home is probably in an appropriately named OU. If you run IT for a company and this is the first time you are learning about OUs, then at this point in time it is likely that all of your computer objects are sitting inside the default Computers container, which as we just learned is not an OU at all.

Moving objects from one location to another inside Active Directory is quite simple, and is best accomplished from inside ...