Dr. Jose P.

Rizal
Senior High School

ACTIVE DIRECTORY
ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS

Prepared by:
CSS11 - Q4 - Week 3
Ashley Q, Manuel
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01 Active Directory (AD)

DEFINITION It provides authentication and authorization

services, along with a hierarchical structure to

OF TERMS organize
resources.
objects like users, computers, and

02 Organization Unit (OU)

Active Directory domain that can hold users,
groups, computers, and other OUs. OUs are used to
organize and manage these objects based on
administrative, geographical, or departmental
criteria.
03 Container
A container is a logical structure used to organize
objects such as users, groups, and computers. OUs
and domains are examples of containers.
INITIONS
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DEFINITION 04 Domain
It forms the basic administrative unit in Active
OF TERMS Directory and can encompass multiple OUs.

05 Groups
A collection of users, computers is known as
Groups

06 Filtering
OUs can be used to group similar objects together,
making it easier to apply policies and permissions. It
allows administrators to target specific sets of
objects within an OU for policy application.
INITIONS
Organizational
Structure
Active Directory organizational
structure is a way to organize
and manage users, computers,
and other resources in a
Windows network.
Organizational
Structure
There is two types of organizational
structure in Windows Network:
Container
Organization Unit
 CONTAINER ORGANIZATION UNIT

Are automatically installed by installing

Created manually by the administrator
ADDS

Cannot be deleted or renamed Editing is possible

Should not be modified or used by the Recommended to utilize by the

administrator administrators

Cannot apply Group Policy Objects Group Policy can be applied

Organizational
Units

Active Directory domain that can hold

users, groups, computers, and other
OUs. OUs are used to organize and
manage these objects based on
administrative, geographical, or
departmental criteria.
 Domain
Container
Organization
Unit
Inside the organizational unit you can create users
Benefits
OF USING ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS

01 Logical Organization
OUs allow for the logical grouping of users,
computers, and other network resources,
mirroring the structure of an organization.
This makes it easier to manage and locate
specific items within the network.

02 03 Group Policy Application

Delegation of Administration
OUs enable administrators to delegate specific OUs serve as containers for applying group
administrative tasks to designated individuals policies, allowing for targeted configuration
or groups, enhancing security and efficiency. and management of settings. This means
This means different parts of the network can administrators can enforce specific
be managed by different teams or individuals configurations or security policies at
without compromising overall control. different levels of the network hierarchy.
Group Policy

A feature in Microsoft Windows that

allows administrators to centrally
manage and enforce settings for users
and computers within an Active Directory
environment.
Those are the
policies you
can configure
in a group of
users.
Benefits
OF SETTING UP GROUP POLICY

01 Centralized Management
It allows administrators to centrally
manage and enforce settings for users and
computers within an Active Directory
environment.

02 03 Enhanced Security
Consistency and Standardization
This helps maintain a standardized It provides granular control over security
environment, reduces configuration errors, settings, allowing administrators to enforce
and ensures compliance with organizational password policies, restrict access to
policies and security requirements. sensitive resources, deploy security
updates, and configure firewall settings
 Example of Organizational Unit with Group Policy applied.
Legend: Coin Bank Company
DOMAIN
The Company holds all the information of all the OU
Org. Unit Manager
Org. Unit Accountant

Org. Unit Bank Teller Manager Bank Teller

Org. Unit Customer Manager can access Accounting OU Manager can access Bank Teller’s OU
Bank Tellers are
Group Policy require to log-in
Managers are Managers are
to access
require to log-in require to log-in
customer files OU
to access to access Bank
Accounting’s OU Teller’s OU
User User
Accounting User
Bank Tellers can access Customer Files OU
Accountants are require
to log-in to access Customer Files
Customer Files OU Accountants can access Customer Files
Customers can
OU
only access the
deposit and
withdraw form
User User also the
registration form
User User in the computer.

User
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