GPO location

[IMdaTEK]

Quick question: do you put all of your GPOs in the same location in AD & just link them as needed or do you place them under the OU that they pertain to & link to other OUs if needed?

 

[chriscj21]

You can either create the gpo's on an ad hoc basis under your OU's or you can create many and link as necessary.


HTH


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[aftertaf]

they are always in one location anyway...

after its the links to different OUs that changes how/where they apply.

they're in sysvol
which is why they are replcated to all DCs

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[Hagfish]

On this subject.. I created a GPO under a test OU I created called "desktops". All of my regular users are just in the regular root of the AD. I then added a group under the "desktops" OU and added users from the regular AD. The policy would not run until I linked the the GPO to the top of the domain tree. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of creating a GPO under an OU? Would it only work correctly if I created new users in that particular OU? TIA

--hag

 

[aftertaf]

users need to be in the OU for user config to affect them.

this is one of the 3 conceptual reasons for OUs.

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