Defining Organizational Units in AD DS
An organizational unit is an administrative-level container, depicted in Figure 6.1, that is used to logically organize objects in AD DS. The concept of the organizational unit is derived from the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) standard upon which AD DS was built, although there are some conceptual differences between pure LDAP and AD DS.
Figure 6.1. AD DS organizational unit structure.
Objects within Active Directory can be logically placed into OUs as defined by the administrator. Although all user objects are placed in the Users container by default and computer objects are placed in the ...
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