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exercise 5.4
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9.
Click Next to continue.
10.
The Completing The Delegation Of Control Wizard page provides a summary of the
operations you have selected. To implement the changes, click Finish.
Delegation: who's responsible for what?
You're the IT director for a large, multinational organization. You've been with the com-
pany for quite a while, that is, since the environment had only a handful of offices and
a few network and system administrators. Times have changed, however. Now system
administrators must coordinate the efforts of hundreds of IT staffers in 14 countries.
For years now, a debate has been raging among IT administrators on the question of
when to create a new child domain and when to make it just an OU. For example, let's
say you have a remote office in Concord, New Hampshire. Do you give the remote office
its own domain (as a child domain), or do you just make the Concord office an OU? Well,
it really depends on who you want to manage the resources in Concord. Do you want to
create domains or OUs based on location?
Fortunately, through the proper use of OUs and delegation, you are given a lot of flex-
ibility in determining how to handle the administration. You can structure the administra-
tion in several ways. First, if you choose to create OUs based on a geographic business
structure, you could delegate control of these OUs based on the job functions of various
system administrators. For example, you could use one user account to administer the
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