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General Information The following is a guide to maintaining organizational units in the LSU ITS Active Directory system. Organizational Units allow organizations on campus to maintain control over their resources, like: computers, servers, printers and file shares. Below are instructions on how to maintain OU's. Creating Objects in an Organizational Unit By creating...
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Naming Conventions Everything in the Active Directory must have a unique name. Since all resources in the directory are shared, the names must be distinguishable as well as unique. To accomplish this, the following naming scheme has been put into place. All objects start with the organization’s organizational code; except for the organization’s Organizational Unit (OU) which is just the...
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The following is a guide to Group Policies in Windows regarding the LSU OCS Active Directory system. Group Policies allow Organizational Unit administrators to define procedures and set restrictions on computers and user objects within an OU. In the LSU Active Directory, Group Policy Objects are defined at the Organization Unit level, filtering down to child objects like Organizational...
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Active Directory FAQs What is an Active Directory (AD)? The Microsoft Windows Active Directory glossary defines an Active Directory as Microsoft's directory service database for Windows networks. Stores information about resources on the network and provides a means of centrally organizing, managing, and controlling access to the resources. Recently renamed Active Directory...
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Louisiana State University Active Directory Project Preface In 1997 LSU implemented a domain model using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. The model consisted of one master domain called LSU_NT that would be used for authentication only, along with this domain would be multiple resource domains. This plan met with limited success, some departments and colleges on campus began...
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