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Link or associate Active Directory user accounts to other user accounts ?

We have a Windows Server 2008 domain where we set up new business owners. Often times later on, they'll hire business managers and other staff of their own, and request new email accounts, etc. We create them as seperate accounts, organized into one of 3 OU's. Is there a good way to link or associate AD accounts to other specific AD accounts ? The main problem we're having is that we don't necessarily have a great record of these staff & manager accounts when a business owner terminates or leaves the system, and they become abandoned in our AD.

Thanks!

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budgetblinds

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Appreciate the response, but we have forms in place for entering & exiting the system. Again, that only revolves around the business owners; not employees they hire after they are an owener. Legal & the forms only care about the people writing us checks; not their staff.

Was not aware of the "Managed By" capability in 2008 AD. I'll take a look at that. Was hoping for some kind of feature where I could link a few AD accounts together, then where one of the accounts couldn't be deleted without un-linking or deleting the other accounts as well.

Thanks

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Mike Kline