{"id":2639,"date":"2013-10-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/29\/powertip-create-an-organizational-unit-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-create-an-organizational-unit-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-an-organizational-unit-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create an Organizational Unit with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to create an organizational unit in Active Directory.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to create an OU in my Active Directory?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADOrganizationalUnit<\/strong> cmdlet.<\/p>\n

To create a new OU at the root of Active Directory called “Divisions”:<\/p>\n

NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “Divisions”<\/p>\n

If it needs to exist in different path in Active Directory, specify the path by its distinguished name:<\/p>\n

NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “Divisions” –path “OU=Offices,DC=Contoso,DC=local”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create an organizational unit in Active Directory.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create an OU in my Active Directory?  In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet. To create a new OU at the root of Active Directory called “Divisions”: NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “Divisions” If it needs to exist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create an organizational unit in Active Directory.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create an OU in my Active Directory?  In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet. To create a new OU at the root of Active Directory called “Divisions”: NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “Divisions” If it needs to exist […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}