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Best practice for keeping AD organized

So this is what I am looking for some advice on. The client I am working with is in an Exchange 2010 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 environment. I am currently setting up some new distribution lists for them.

They have multiple remote offices that each have their own OU within the main forest that contains all of the users for that office. But the main office doesn't. It's OU is just called 'users' and is getting pretty messy. I was thinking of taking the time and creating a new OU called HQ and cleaning everything up. I was also thinking of creating a sub-group for HQ that would contain just email accounts (i.e distribution lists, etc..) so that anything that doesn't require an actual login username would be placed here.

Any thoughts on this or how your AD forest might differ?

Manpreet SIngh Khatra

You have though goos to Organize and manage ..... AD depends on your Org or Administration requirements.

Let me know if you have any specific query in mind :)

- Rancy

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The client leaves it to us to administer the system and keep it running. In that respect we have setup each remote office with its own OU and all employees within each office have their information placed within the correct OU. But it really looks like the main office has gotten overlooked and it's OU is quite messy.

So, the idea that I laid out above....does it look good or should I change something?

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