5.7. Inheritance
Just like in real life, inheritance in Windows architecture is the process of receiving from your parents. Of course, with inheritance in Windows, there is usually no death involved. Far from it, in fact. With Windows Server 2008, inheritance is designed to only increase the number of permissions and overall assets of the infrastructure and involves no taking away whatsoever.
By default, child OUs inherit all of their parent's attributes. This means that if the top-level OU dictates that they have full control over whatever objects that are in that OU, they will by default have control over all the objects that are in any succeeding OUs that are created there.
The complication comes, of course, when an administrator decides ...
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