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Published inJul 2022
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ISBN-139781803242507
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Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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Modifying the default location for new user and computer objects

When you join a device to the Active Directory domain or create a user object without context, these objects will be placed in default containers. Devices end up in the Computers container and user objects end up in the Users container. You can change these locations to accommodate for processes, delegation, and Group Policy structure – when a computer object is placed in an OU other than the Computers container, it might get picked up by an endpoint management solution automatically, have proper settings deployed by Group Policy automatically, and be manageable by delegated service desk personnel automatically.

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To modify the default location for new user objects and computer objects, the Active Directory environment needs to run the Windows Server 2003 Domain Functional Level (DFL), or higher. If you try to modify the location in an Active Directory environment running the Windows 2000 Server...

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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer