I would like to create an ou structure below the Customer container like:
Hosting OU
Reseller OU
Customer OU
Users OU
Groups OU
Contacts OU
It looks to me like this question has been asked before (although the last post simillar to this seems to have been a couple of years ago) and that MPS dosen't support this.
Has this been fixed with the latest version of the provisining tools?
I don't mean to be flippant, however certainly you can see that hosters could use more flexablity in the AD structure, if nothing more than for ease of policy management.
I wasn't trying to imply that it was a bug, I was mearly asking if the MPS developers recognise that it could be a useful option.
I was mearly asking if the MPS developers recognise that it could be a useful option.
Well.. It could be, but I doubt that MPS (HMC actually) developers read this forum. I can't recall time, when MS representative made a post on this forum last time.
Because of the way they designed HMC, this would be really difficult, which is why its not supported. Basically due to the private folders that are created under an OU, that structure would break the current layout of OU's in HMC.
I can also tell you that its unlikely to change in the future. The largest reason they dont support this is the desire by the development team to hold down the proliferation of OU's in AD. This is mainly due to the fact that they recognize that for future
large hosters (500,000 users and greater) the additional OU's will bog down an AD system too much. Currently they already create a lot of OU's under a company for other things as it is, and adding more OU's under that would not be as simple as adding say
3 OU's, it would be a multiple of all the OU's they currently have. So if you added 3 more OU's, you would now have 3x that number of OU's for every company.
Thats the logic behind why its not currently being done. In addition, it would be nice to be able to create OU's just to be able to segregate users, but that is also not possbile in HMC.
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OU structure in MPS
Nov 14, 2007 12:58 PM|Eric-Johnson|LINK
I would like to create an ou structure below the Customer container like:
Hosting OU
Reseller OU
Customer OU
Users OU
Groups OU
Contacts OU
It looks to me like this question has been asked before (although the last post simillar to this seems to have been a couple of years ago) and that MPS dosen't support this.
Has this been fixed with the latest version of the provisining tools?
Thank you
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Re: OU structure in MPS
Nov 15, 2007 09:46 AM|DmitriG|LINK
Correct.
"Fixed..." - What do you mean??? It is not a bug. It is a way how HMC works.
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Re: OU structure in MPS
Nov 15, 2007 05:11 PM|Eric-Johnson|LINK
I don't mean to be flippant, however certainly you can see that hosters could use more flexablity in the AD structure, if nothing more than for ease of policy management.
I wasn't trying to imply that it was a bug, I was mearly asking if the MPS developers recognise that it could be a useful option.
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Re: OU structure in MPS
Nov 15, 2007 05:23 PM|DmitriG|LINK
Well.. It could be, but I doubt that MPS (HMC actually) developers read this forum. I can't recall time, when MS representative made a post on this forum last time.
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Re: OU structure in MPS
Dec 02, 2007 08:37 AM|ehanig|LINK
Hi,
Because of the way they designed HMC, this would be really difficult, which is why its not supported. Basically due to the private folders that are created under an OU, that structure would break the current layout of OU's in HMC.
I can also tell you that its unlikely to change in the future. The largest reason they dont support this is the desire by the development team to hold down the proliferation of OU's in AD. This is mainly due to the fact that they recognize that for future large hosters (500,000 users and greater) the additional OU's will bog down an AD system too much. Currently they already create a lot of OU's under a company for other things as it is, and adding more OU's under that would not be as simple as adding say 3 OU's, it would be a multiple of all the OU's they currently have. So if you added 3 more OU's, you would now have 3x that number of OU's for every company.
Thats the logic behind why its not currently being done. In addition, it would be nice to be able to create OU's just to be able to segregate users, but that is also not possbile in HMC.
Regards,
Eric