Re: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread James Rankin
Can't you redirect them with redircmp? If you are creating VMs, you can script this to run after the machine is created 2009/4/15 Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.com Hi Guys we have an issue where users are creating multiple vm's every day and joining them to the network and we end up with

RE: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread Greg Mulholland
had thought of using this tool, i guess i just need to find a way to do it whatever fits best Greg From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 9:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New machine OU placement Can't you

RE: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread David Lum
Would it help if you change the default OU systems and users are placed in when added to the domain? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324949 Alternately you could schedule an OLDCMP.EXE job daily and work with that data. Dave From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread Free, Bob
There are several ways to address it but it all depends on the situation, we disabled the ability to add computers to the computers container when we first installed AD. All the various workstation and server OU's have very specific delegations on who can add machines to them. If you just want

Re: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
We have changed the default OU that new computers are added to, this OU has a special Group Policy on it that has the machine locked down tight, they cannot do anything with the machine until it is moved to the correct OU, this has eliminated the mystery of computers just showing up in active

RE: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread Brian Desmond
Yes I have scripts and this is pretty easy to do (done it many times), but, the fields you're looking for don't really exist. Naming conventions are how I usually key this. If you don't have that then this is a lot of work. If you want to do site based you could ping the machine and then map

RE: New machine OU placement

2009-04-15 Thread Greg Mulholland
Thanks everyone for their input. I think i have enough to look at. Greg From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 4:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New machine OU placement Yes I have scripts and this is pretty easy