Mastering Windows Group Policy

Default containers that are not OUs

Remember when you learned how to identify the OUs inside ADUC by that little extra icon graphic that sits on top of the manila folder? It is important to distinguish between OUs and non-OUs when working with your GPOs, because you are going to be linking GPOs to your OUs, but you will find that you are unable to link GPOs to those non-OU containers. Inside GPMC, you won't even see them.

This point is worth talking about primarily because there are two default, generic containers that exist in any installation of Active Directory called Users and Computers. The Users and Computers containers are not OUs! This is very important to realize because it would make common sense to create new user objects inside ...