OU named users

Any problem creating an OU named users? (nested a few levels down in another
OU) reserved name ?

thanks

carl

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> Any problem creating an OU named users? (nested a few levels down in
> another OU) reserved name ?
>
> thanks
>
> carl

No problem. In fact, I have a domain I support with an ou=Users. I didn't
set that up, but it's been fine for years. I have also seen ou=Computers.

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Hello MRNews,

In Windows server 2003 "users" is reserved, see "Table of reserved words":
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264

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> Any problem creating an OU named users? (nested a few levels down in
> another OU) reserved name ?
>
> thanks
>
> carl
>

I've also seen it in some big AD deployments working for years and no
problem. both Users and Computers.

A lot of people tend to organize their AD data in OU's with the location
name, and under that they put in Users & Computers.

I haven't seen anyone to run in the "special issue" described in the Name
conventions documents provided by Meinolf. I think it's really hard to
reproduce that scenario.

Andrei Ungureanu
www.winadmins.net

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> "MRNews" <> wrote in message
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>> Any problem creating an OU named users? (nested a few levels down in
>> another OU) reserved name ?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> carl
>
> No problem. In fact, I have a domain I support with an ou=Users. I didn't
> set that up, but it's been fine for years. I have also seen ou=Computers.
>
> --
> Richard Mueller
> MVP Directory Services
> Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
> --
>
>

The "table of reserved names" generally applies to netbios names, computer
names, dns, and many other things. However, I believe OU names are not
subjec to limitations of the "table of reserved names".

The following KB lists OU name restrictions that I believe apply.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/909264?p=1


Andrei Ungureanu wrote:
> I've also seen it in some big AD deployments working for years and no
> problem. both Users and Computers.
>
> A lot of people tend to organize their AD data in OU's with the
> location name, and under that they put in Users & Computers.
>
> I haven't seen anyone to run in the "special issue" described in the
> Name conventions documents provided by Meinolf. I think it's really
> hard to reproduce that scenario.
>
> Andrei Ungureanu
> www.winadmins.net
>
> "Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-> wrote
> in message news:...
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>> "MRNews" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> Any problem creating an OU named users? (nested a few levels down in
>>> another OU) reserved name ?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> carl
>>
>> No problem. In fact, I have a domain I support with an ou=Users. I
>> didn't set that up, but it's been fine for years. I have also seen
>> ou=Computers. --
>> Richard Mueller
>> MVP Directory Services
>> Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
>> --

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