Pre-create is the key word. I already told you one way to achieve this, and Phil is telling you another. So, now you have more than one way to skin the cat - I am against abusive cat-skinning, mind you. Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Phil Renouf Sent: Mon 2/27/2006 12:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer Use netdom to join the machine to the domain, or precreate the computer account. When you use netdom you can specify an OU. Phil On 2/27/06, Harding, Devon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you're joining a new server to a domain (My Computer, Properties) how would you make it create the computer account in a specified OU, rather than the Computers container? -Devon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer You are misaligning priorities here. Start putting something in place to create computers in the correct OU the first time. For all things already created up to this time, try moving them all to the correct OU in one exercise. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Harding, Devon Sent: Mon 2/27/2006 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer Well, the script should check a particular OU (OU=Servers,DC=Domain,DC=Com). If the server is in that OU (and theoretically can only exits in one container/OU), then Quit -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer The issue will be how does the script know which OU the server should be in, unless of course all servers live in the same OU :) Does the naming convention correlate to the destination OU. I'm not sure we know enough about your requirements and env yet to make a definitive stab at this one :) neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: 27 February 2006 15:27 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer This is basically what I want to happen: Admin logs on to server. Script checks whether admin is logging onto a server in the local domain. If not, Quit. If it is, script checks if server is in the correct OU. If not, move server to correct OU. If it is, Quit. That's it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer Just servers for now. We'll do workstations later. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 5:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer What would? You mean you only plan to move servers and not workstations? Or do you mean that the script would only move servers and not workstation? If you are talking about the script, I don't see why it would not move anything you tell it to move. This here http://www.akomolafe.com/Portals/1/Move%20Computers%20to%20Specific%20OUs%20b ased%20on%20their%20IP.txt will give you an idea of post-join mass movement of computers. If I were to rewrite that today, I'd not use expensive query or ping. But it's a start. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Harding, Devon Sent: Fri 2/24/2006 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer This would only be for servers, not workstations. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-Weidner Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer Hi Devon, you know that you are able to change the default location where computer accounts are created when joining a domain in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory with redircmp.exe? However - here's a script which moves a computer to another OU: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/computer/cptrvb11.ms px Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner MVP-Book "Windows XP - Die Expertentipps": http://tinyurl.com/44zcz <http://tinyurl.com/44zcz> Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner < http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner <http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner> > Website: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org <http://www.windowsserverfaq.org/> Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=35E388DE-4885-4308-B489-F2F1214C811D ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Auto move computer Does any have a script that will auto-move a server into another OU after joining a domain? 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