Planning Organizational Units
Organizational units (OUs) are, as their name implies, organizing tools for collections of objects within a domain. An OU can contain any collection of Active Directory objects such as printers, computers, groups, and so forth.
In the past, a domain that got very complicated was usually sorted out by splitting the domain into multiple domains. OUs provide an alternative administrative substructure that is infinitely more flexible. They can be arranged hierarchically within a domain, and administrative control can be delegated for functions in a single OU or an entire subtree of OUs. (An OU is the smallest entity to which you can delegate administrative control.) At the same time, OUs can be modified, moved, renamed, ...
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