Hi all,

Can anyone let me know what is the difference between organizational unit and group policy in 2003 server :confused:

Let me try puttin it this way
G.Policy is a set of rules that govern the overall fnctionality of your domain
O.Unit is a container that you can apply those policies to, you can have as many containers you want.. & containers can contain others...

Hello,

OU (Organaizational Unit) are the container in Active Directory where you can put users, groups and computers. It is a smiliar concept of Namespaces in C#, where you can organize the related objects into one OU.

GPO (Group Policy Object) is a set of rules which control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts and An organizational unit is the smallest scope or unit to which you can assign Group Policy settings or delegate administrative authority.

For example, You want to give some administrative privilages to some users, so you have to place all the users in one OU e.g. AdministratorsOU, and then create a GPO e.g. AdministratorGPO to define set of permissions settings and then assign the AdministratorGPO to that AdministratorOU.

Hope it helps.

Thanks

Lepide