OUs

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In Microsoft's Active Directory, OUs do not confer access permissions, and objects placed within OUs are not automatically assigned access privileges based on their containing OU. Source: Internet

Organizational units do not each have a separate namespace; e.g. user accounts with an identical username (sAMAccountName) in separate OUs within a domain are not allowed, such as "fred. Source: Internet

Only groups are selectable, and members of OUs cannot be collectively assigned rights to directory objects. Source: Internet

Microsoft recommends using OUs rather than domains for structure and to simplify the implementation of policies and administration. Source: Internet

OUs can contain other OUs—domains are containers in this sense. Source: Internet

OUs should be structured primarily to facilitate administrative delegation, and secondarily, to facilitate group policy application. Source: Internet