samba - Nov 2020 - Best practice OU and policy structure.

My organization has several next cloud instances running with users in
different ou's without any issue

On Wed., Nov. 4, 2020, 2:39 a.m. L.P.H. van Belle via samba, <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > The problem with using OU's, is that a user can only be in one OU,
so
> > what if the user needs to be in more than one ?
> >
> > I would rely on group membership instead.
> >
>
> Yes, but this is really just a thing to thing about and howto layer you
> GPO's.
>
> And as Rowland said use groups whereever you can.
> It does make things way better to maintain.
>
> Read these before you "just" deploy things..
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/52587.active-directory-design-considerations-and-best-practices.aspx
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/plan/ad-ds-design-and-planning
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> Greetz,
>
> Louis
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On 04/11/2020 15:26, Luke Barone via samba wrote:
> My organization has several next cloud instances running with users in
> different ou's without any issue
>
I am not saying that you cannot have users in different OU's, I am 
saying that you cannot have A user in multiple OU's in AD.

Rowland

Yes, I agree. I should have mentioned I was replying to the op's original
message

On Wed., Nov. 4, 2020, 7:38 a.m. Rowland penny via samba, <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> On 04/11/2020 15:26, Luke Barone via samba wrote:
> > My organization has several next cloud instances running with users in
> > different ou's without any issue
> >
> I am not saying that you cannot have users in different OU's, I am
> saying that you cannot have A user in multiple OU's in AD.
>
> Rowland
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