Organisational unit, a container within LDAP or Active Directory; CSRs include it as a field too.
Also called organisational unit.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
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Each book explains OU in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Container
Something that groups data. Blob Storage containers sit inside a storage account and hold blobs much as folders hold files; Cosmos DB containers hold items and set the scope for partitioning and throughput.
- LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, the standard way to bind to and query directories like Active Directory. In Azure it is provided by Entra Domain Services.
- AD
Short for Active Directory, the directory service built into Windows Server (AD DS). Entra Connect synchronises on-premises forests to Microsoft Entra ID.
Related terms
- Architecture Capability
An enterprise's capacity to build, apply and maintain its architecture, and to steer change through it. Established during the Preliminary Phase, it is a management idea rather than an organisational unit.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.