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Best Practice Active Directory OU Structure/Design

Tags: Microsoft, Server, 2003
Hi all,

I am organizing my active directory and would like some guidance on the best practice for a small organization.

I have a small windows 2003 server native network with 35 users and 35 computers 7 mobile computers and 4 servers 2 of which are domain controllers 1 virtual server. I still have all the computers in the default computers folder when I setup ad and I have some users and all user groups still in the default users folder.

I would like to organize the ad to make better use of OUs. But I dont want to make it a complex design.

I was thinking of a structure like the one below we only have one forest/domain:
computers
-mobile computers
-servers
-domain controllers
-virtual servers

then for users:
users
-mobile users
-domain users
-admin users
-groups

I believe I won't have a problem moving users and computers from the respective default folders to OUs during work hours but I may do it after hours just in case.

Thanks for any suggestions, articles would be great as well.
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