Active Directory Domain Services 2008 : Move an Organizational Unit

7/4/2012 4:11:03 PM

Scenario/Problem: Your company is restructuring its AD DS logical design and requires OUs to be nested under other OUs.

Solution: Move an OU by using the Windows interface or the command line.

To move an OU by using the Windows interface, perform the following steps:

1.	Log on to a domain controller or a member computer that has Windows Server 2008 RSAT installed.
2.	Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
3.	In the console tree, right-click the OU you want to move and click Move.
4.	On the Move window, select the location where you want to move the OU object; then click OK, shown in Figure 1 Figure 1. The Move window.

1.	Log on to a domain controller.
2.	Click Start, and click Command Prompt.
3.	In the Command Prompt window, type the following command and press Enter: Dsmove "OU=Boston,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=LOCAL" -newparent "OU=US,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=LOCAL" (where "OU=Boston,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=LOCAL" is the distinguished name of the OU to move and "OU=US,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=LOCAL" is the location to which you want to move the OU).
4.	Verify that the results of the dsmove command entered above returns dsmove succeeded, as shown in Figure 2 Figure 2. Moving an OU using the command line.

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