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How to Design Active Directory OUs Without Breaking GPOs (Windows Server 2025)

June 15, 2026June 13, 2026 by racknotes
Active Directory OU design skeleton for SMB: five top-level OUs with Servers divided into Domain Controllers and Member Servers

9 min readHow to design Active Directory OUs around admin boundaries — not your org chart. Covers OU skeleton, delegation without Domain Admin, default container trap, and GPO verification.

Categories Active Directory Tags active directory, delegation, group policy, ou design, PowerShell, Windows Server 2025

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