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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Sander Berkouwer
Book Image

Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Sander Berkouwer

Overview of this book

Updated to the Windows Server 2022, this second edition covers effective recipes for Active Directory administration that will help you leverage AD's capabilities for automating network, security, and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure. Starting with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas, and partitions, this book will help you manage domain controllers, organizational units, and default containers. You'll then explore Active Directory sites management as well as identify and solve replication problems. As you progress, you'll work through recipes that show you how to manage your AD domains as well as user and group objects and computer accounts, expiring group memberships, and Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) with PowerShell. Once you've covered DNS and certificates, you'll work with Group Policy and then focus on federation and security before advancing to Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premise Active Directory with Azure AD. Finally, you'll discover how Microsoft Azure AD Connect synchronization works and how to harden Azure AD. By the end of this AD book, you’ll be able to make the most of Active Directory and Azure AD Connect.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Creating an OU

In this recipe, we create an OU.

Getting ready

To create an OU, sign in with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group or an account that has delegated privileges to create OUs.

See the Delegating control of an OU recipe in this chapter for more information on delegating control of an OU.

How to do it...

This recipe shows three ways to create an OU:

  • Using the Active Directory Administrative Center
  • Using the command line
  • Using Windows PowerShell

Using the Active Directory Administrative Center

To create an OU using the Active Directory Administrative Center, perform the following steps:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Search for Active Directory Administrative Center and click its search result or run dsac.exe. The Active Directory Administrative Center window appears.
  3. In the left navigation pane, switch to the tree view.

Figure 4.1 – Tree view in the Active Directory Administrative Center...