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If you want to create the OU in a location other than the domain root, you need to specify the distinguished name of the parent container.<br />
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<b>NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “YourNewOU” -Path &quot;OU=MyFirm,DC=FirmInc,DC=L<wbr />ocal&quot;<br />
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This should be enough.
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Just like hello said, I was testing it in my environment.<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-42460430-1"><span>New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Path &quot;OU=MyLAB, OU=MyFirm, DC=FirmInc, DC=LOCAL&quot; -Name &lt;nameoftheou&gt;</span>
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oBdA&gt; <br />
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New-ADOrganizationalUnitRe<wbr />curse -DistinguishedName &quot;OU=TEST2,OU=MyFirm,DC=MyC<wbr />ompany,DC=<wbr />LOCAL&quot;<br />
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seems to create the &quot;TEST2&quot; in the root? (DC=MyCompany,DC=LOCAL)
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So my suggestion didn't work?
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Sorry, setting the new parent was not in the correct place.<br />
Corrected and enhanced; it now optionally returns the OU(s) that were created:<br />

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-42460472-1"><span>Function New-ADOrganizationalUnitRecurse([string]$DistinguishedName, [Switch]$PassThru) {</span>
<span>	$OUPath, $Parent = $DistinguishedName -split ',(?=\s*DC=)', 2 | ForEach-Object {$_.Trim()}</span>
<span>	$OUList = @($OUPath -split '(?:\A|,)\s*OU=' | Where-Object {$_})</span>
<span>	[array]::Reverse($OUList)</span>
<span>	Try {</span>
<span>		$OUList | ForEach-Object {</span>
<span>			$Name = $_</span>
<span>			Write-Host &quot;Creating OU '$($Name)' in '$($Parent)' ...&quot; -NoNewline</span>
<span>			Try {</span>
<span>				Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity &quot;OU=$($Name),$($Parent)&quot; -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null</span>
<span>				Write-Host &quot; exists already.&quot;</span>
<span>			} Catch {</span>
<span>				$NewOU = New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name $Name -Path $Parent -ErrorAction Stop -PassThru -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $true</span>
<span>				Write-Host &quot; OK.&quot;</span>
<span>				If ($PassThru) {</span>
<span>					$NewOU</span>
<span>				}</span>
<span>			}</span>
<span>			$Parent = &quot;OU=$($Name),$($Parent)&quot;</span>
<span>		}</span>
<span>	} Catch {</span>
<span>		Throw</span>
<span>	}</span>
<span>}</span>
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Hello There,<br />
New-ADOrganizationalUnit will only create an OU if the parent exists. It does <b>not</b> automatically create any intermediate parent OUs that don't exist yet.
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He just ignores our answers hahaha :P
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Jose》 you did not read my question
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Dude I did read it maybe I didn't understand what you wanted or you failed to explain yourself. Either way odba already answered so you didn't even mention to correct the answers but nvm if you want to think that it's OK I'm not arguing 😂<br />
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Maybe if you would tried or read the hello there or mine answer you would have get what you wanted.
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<b>based on distinguishedname </b> ?<br />
<b>all sub OUs</b>) ?<br />
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None of these questions was answered by you or Hello There...
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Powershell<br />
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How to create an OU based on distinguishedname (and all sub OUs)? (I have the following string &quot;OU=MyLAB, OU=MyFirm, DC=FirmInc, DC=LOCAL&quot;)<br />
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Thx in advance<br />
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Mike
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Powershell

How to create an OU based on distinguishedname (and all sub OUs)? (I have the following string "OU=MyLAB, OU=MyFirm, DC=FirmInc, DC=LOCAL")

Thx in advance

Mike

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