Joining computers to your domain is going to be a very normal task for any IT professional, enough that all of you are probably familiar with the process of doing so. What you may not realize, though, is that when you join computers or servers to your domain, they get lumped automatically into a generic Computers container inside Active Directory. Sometimes this doesn't present any problem at all and all of your machines can reside inside this Computers container folder forever. Most of the time, however, organizations will set up policies that filter down into the Computers container automatically. When this is the case, these policies and settings will immediately apply to all computers that you join to your domain. For a desktop computer, this might be desired behavior. When configuring a new server though, this can present big problems.

Let's say you are interested in turning on a new remote access server that is going to be running DirectAccess...