OU Flexibility
Domain designers are in no way locked in to an OU structure. Users can be moved back and forth between OUs during normal business hours without affecting domain functionality (aside from Group Policy application, which should be verified first.) This fact also helps designers to easily correct any design flaws that might have been made to the OU structure.
OUs were introduced as part of Active Directory with the release of Windows 2000 and continued with later versions of Windows Server. Essentially, no real technical differences exist between the functionality of OUs in earlier versions of AD DS, but one important update was added with Windows Server 2008 and later versions. By default, Windows Server 2008 and later allow for ...
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