{"id":72382,"date":"2015-07-03T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/03\/powertip-use-powershell-to-create-ou-in-active-directory\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:13","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-create-ou-in-active-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-create-ou-in-active-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Create OU in Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to easily create an organizational unit in Active Directory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a new organizational unit (OU) in Active Directory?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>New-ADOrganizationalUnit<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the name and path. A description is optional. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you want to easily delete the OU later, set the&nbsp;<b>ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion<\/b>&nbsp;flag to false. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Note<\/strong> &nbsp;The following command is a one-line command that accomplishes this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name Charlotte -Path &quot;dc=nwtraders,dc=com&quot; <br \/>-Description &quot;Charlotte office users&quot; -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion:$false<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to easily create an organizational unit in Active Directory. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a new organizational unit (OU) in Active Directory? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-ADOrganizationalUnit&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the name and path. A description is optional. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you want to easily delete the OU later, [&hellip;]<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to easily create an organizational unit in Active Directory. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a new organizational unit (OU) in Active Directory? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-ADOrganizationalUnit&nbsp;cmdlet, and specify the name and path. A description is optional. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you want to easily delete the OU later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382","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=72382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382\/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=72382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}