Practice: Creating an OU
In this practice, you create the for the contoso.com domain.
Exercise 1: Planning an OU Structure.
In this exercise, you plan an OU structure for Contoso Pharmaceuticals.
To plan an OU structure
Contoso Pharmaceuticals has four locations: Chicago, Kansas City, St. Paul, and Colum?bus. The organization is divided into two regions, East and West, with Chicago and Columbus in the East region and Kansas City and St. Paul in the West region. The company has one domain, contoso.com. Some administrative decisions are handled by the IT department in each location, and each IT department reports to its regional IT department, which handles larger administrative decisions.
You are a network administrator for Contoso Pharmaceuticals. You were recently on vacation for a week, and during your absence, two people were assigned to handle your daily tasks. One of those tasks was to create an OU named Accounting. Due to a communications error, both people performed this task. Each did so at a different domain controller. When you return to work, you are told about the situation and then shown what they believe to be corrupted data in the Active Directory database. They need your help to figure out what CompTIA A+ certification happened and determine what to do about it.
In order to see this issue, you must first create the problem. To do so, complete the following steps:
1.Unplug the network cable from the network card of Server2 to ensure that the servers are not able to replicate while you complete these steps.
2.Log on to Serverl using the domain administrator’s user name and password.
3.Open the Active Directory Users And Computers console.
4.Create a new OU named Accounting in the contoso.com domain.
5.Once you see the Accounting OU in contoso.com, unplug the network cable from the network interface card of Serverl. Reconnect the network cable that you
removed from Server2. The network cable of Serverl should be unplugged and the network cable of Server2 should be connected.
6.Log on to Server2 using the domain administrator’s user name and password.
7.Open the Active Directory Users And Computers console. This will take awhile, so be patient.
8.You’ll see an error indicating that naming information cannot be located. Click OK. The Active Directory Users And Computers console opens.
9.Right-click the Active Directory Users And Computers object in the console. Then click Connect To Domain Controller.
Type Server2 into the Enter The Name Of Another Domain Controller text box and click OK. Click Yes to confirm MCSE exams that you’d like to make this connection. It will take a few moments to make the connection.
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