Default Computer OU in Active Directory

Default Computer OU in Active Directory

If you do not like that newly created computers in Active Directory goes into the folder Computers, you can change this with the command redircmp

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770619(v=ws.10).aspx

First create the desired OU in Active Directory where you want your computers to go, here MyComputers:

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Then change the default location to this new OU:

redircmp ou=MyComputers,dc=gt,dc=local

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Now new computer domain members will go to this folder by default unless you specify another path on the domain join.

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