By default, all new computer or user accounts are created in the Computer or User containers, respectively. Because these are not OUs, it is not possible to link GPOs to them. However, using two new tools provided with Windows Server 2003, you can specify that all new accounts will be created in specific OUs. You do this by first creating OUs for new user and computer accounts and then running Redirusr.exe (for user accounts) and/or Redircmp.exe (for computer accounts) once for each domain. From this point, all new user and computer accounts will be placed in the targeted OUs. These tools are included on the Windows Server 2003 CD. You can run either of these tools or both of them

Updated: March 2, 2005

This white paper comes with a number of supporting files – spreadsheets, GPO backups, and HTML-based Group Policy reports. These are installed by the installation package CommonScenarios.msi.

Note
You can download the CommonScenarios.msi installation package, which includes this document and supporting files, from the Microsoft Download Center.

When you install this package, the files listed in Table 6 are copied into the %programfiles%\Microsoft\CommonScenarios directory and a new menu – Group Policy Common Scenarios – is created on Start/Programs.

Table 6.    Files Installed by CommonScenarios.msi Package

 

Directory	FileName	Description
\Documentation	CommonScenariosWS2003.doc	This white paper.
\Documentation	CommonScenariosWS2003.xls	Spreadsheet listing each setting specified for all scenarios.
\Environment	CommonScenarios.xml	File representing sample environment for common scenarios and for use by CreateEnvironmentFromXML script.
\GPO-Backups	[GUID]	One subdirectory for each GPO included in the common scenarios.
\GPO-Reports	[GPO Name].htm	HTML-based report for each GPO (generated from GPMC).
\Scripts	CreateCommonScenarios.cmd	Command file to install a sample OU structure, create the common scenarios GPOs, and link GPOs