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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) Tutorials
Managing Users And Computers / Moving Domain Objects
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Someone once said that the only thing that is constant is change and certainly that is appropriate for the computer industry. The hierarchies that we setup today are probably going to be changed tomorrow and that is the great thing about active directory is that it is easy to do. There is really no security issue when we move something from one OU to another. That is the active part of Active directory, it just happens. But we got new tools in Windows Server 2003 that were not available to us in Windows 2000. That makes moving objects much easier. So let us go back to active directories users and computers and let us go to the sales OU. As we can see in the sales OU we have got a sales template and we have Susan Brown. Say we want to move both of those objects to the management OU. Well, in Windows 2000 what we can do is we can click on each of them or hold down shift and select an entire column in this case we can hold down shift and control and select both. Then we could right click and we could click on move and then we could click on the OU that we move them to and then we could click on Ok and they are moved. But are they? Did they really get where we wanted them to go? And if we are responsible that they did then what do we have to do now? Now we have to go to the management OU and click on it to make sure that they actually did get there. Now with Server 2003 we have got a better option. Let us say we want to move them back. So I am going to move back the sales template click on it, hold down the control key and click on Susan Brown. And now we just want to drag them back and see that they are dragged back into the sales OU. So click and hold as we can see we get a cross here and we go to the sales OU that zero with sort of a line through it, changes to a rectangle. When it changes to the rectangle we know we have still got what we had on your side. Now we are looking at the management OU that has 11 objects and were positioned over I am holding down the left click still, so I am positioned over the sales OU and I am looking at the management OU and now I let go. Now the management OU says I only have 9 objects now. And I was on the sales OU when I let go. So yeah I can click on the sales OU again to make sure that they are there but I am pretty sure that they are there. So, in another words I wanted to make many changes very quickly I can do it in many less steps by being able to drag and drop. This is a piece that lot of people felt was missing from Windows 2000. Because we always had to keep doing that with files and folders, so why not with active directory objects. It just was not available with Windows 2000. It is however available with Windows Server 2003, and you should know this for real life as well as for the test. So we have looked at how we manage users and computers and we manage users and computers in regards to their properties, we manage them individually. But in regards to their permissions typically we do not manage users and computers individually but instead we manage them as groups so in our next chapter we will discuss managing groups.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) |
| Author: | Bill Ferguson/Certified Instructor |
| SKU: | 33497 |
| ISBN: | 1932072918 |
| Release Date: | 2004-06-03 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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