each time you create an OU beneath that OUx remove from the OUs authenticated users. The objects in the OU also have authenticated users and everyone explicitely defined. you also need to get rid of those too. Remove the members of the Pre-Windows 2000 compatible Access group (if possible and this depends if you have legacy apps or servers) remember that if you use the default MS admin groups (account operators,etc) those members can still see and do actions they have permissions configured for. Removing auth. users and everyone makes sure those groups do not have the ability to see the values of properties of those objects. However they will still see the objects itself (visual) to prevent that also you need to use the "list object" permission which is not availabel by default. Use List Object permissions, if users are not supposed to see the existance of specific objects To activate (for whole AD forest) change the DSHeuristics property on the Directory Service object to 001: cn=Directory Service,cn=Windows NT,cn=Services,cn=Configuration,dc=ForestRootDomain Use in combination with the LIST CONTENT permission on parent container (Caution: if used wrong, you could revoke access to sections or all of your Active Directory) Cheers #JORGE#
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Fugleberg Sent: Fri 7/22/2005 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU I have an OU (call it OUX) that contains a bunch of OUs, which contain users. I want to hide the OU so that only administrators and members of one specific group can see it if they browse the directory (say with Windows 2000, or LDP). I also want any new OUs or other objects that I create under OUX to get the same treatment. I don't care if others can see OUX itself. I know that Authenticated Users gets lots of read permissions on new objects from the default security descriptors (these have not been changed). This domain also has Everyone still in the Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group, because nobody has taken time to figure out if it can be removed without screwing anything up. The domain is W2K native with some W2K3 DCs and no clients below NT4 SP4. I figured out a way to do most of this, but I was hoping the experts here could tell me how they would approach the issue. My solution ended up blocking inheritance and removing the read permission for each sub-OU manually... Thanks! ________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
