Thanks everyone for your help. It works the way you said. I did a lot of
searching to get an answer to my question so your responses are very much
appreciated!
Dave
At 09:46 AM 5/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>If the account is precreated, any domain user can join the domain. They
>just don't have the rights to create a computer account. And if the
>departments already have permissions delegated to them for administering
>their specific OU's, this shouldn't be a problem.
>
>James Winzenz, MCSE, A+
>Associate Systems Administrator
>Peregrine Systems, Inc.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Kha Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:30 PM
>To: NT 2000 Discussions
>Subject: RE: Adding computers to an AD OU
>
>
>Remember that when you precreate the accounts you should change the
>permissions on "who can join the computer account to the domain" to give
>your specific department groups this permission. BTW, I only know how to do
>this through the create computer account GUI and have not figured out how to
>script these permissions. Does anyone know how to do this??
>
>-Alex
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 5:32 AM
>To: NT 2000 Discussions
>Subject: RE: Adding computers to an AD OU
>
>
>If you precreate the computer accounts in the correct OU, then when you have
>the computer change to the new domain, it will automatically go into the
>proper OU that the account has been precreated in.
>
>James Winzenz, MCSE, A+
>Associate Systems Administrator
>Peregrine Systems, Inc.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Wentworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:43 PM
>To: NT 2000 Discussions
>Cc: David Wentworth
>Subject: Adding computers to an AD OU
>
>
>Hello, all!
>
>I'm constructing an Active Directory environment where I want to delegate
>administration to departments of their own OUs. I've run into a problem.
>
>With Windows 2000, if you try to change the domain the computer belongs to,
>you can't (or at least I haven't figured out how to) pick an OU within a
>domain. You can only select the domain and then the computer ends up in the
>"Computers" container. So it looks to me like I have to give the dept. LAN
>admins permission to add computers to the domain or the "Computers"
>container, and once they've done that they can move the computers from
>there to their own OU. Is that right? Is there a better way?
>
>Your counsel will be most appreciated!
>
>Humbly yours,
>
> Dave Wentworth
>
>
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