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I see the ContactOU &nbsp;like Accounts,Groups,Servers,Pr<wbr />inters,Sha<wbr />res OU in the Active Directory and there are some contacts within this..What is the contactOU in active directory? and Why do we create contacts in this? what is its job?
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I see the ContactOU  like Accounts,Groups,Servers,Printers,Shares OU in the Active Directory and there are some contacts within this..What is the contactOU in active directory? and Why do we create contacts in this? what is its job?

contactOU in Active directory

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).