Create an Organizational Unit in Windows PowerShell

Problem

You want to create an organizational unit (OU) in Active Directory.

Solution

To create an organizational unit in a container, use the [adsi] type shortcut to bind to a part of the Active Directory, and then call the Create() method.

$domain = [adsi] "LDAP://localhost:389/dc=Fabrikam,dc=COM" $salesOrg = $domain.Create("OrganizationalUnit", "OU=Sales") $salesOrg.Put("Description", "Sales Headquarters, SF") $salesOrg.Put("wwwHomePage", "http://fabrikam.com/sales") $salesOrg.SetInfo()

Discussion

The solution shows an example of creating a Sales organizational unit (OU) at the root of the organization. You can use the same syntax to create OUs under other OUs as well. Example 231 demonstrates how to create an East and West sales division.

Example 231. Creating East and West sales divisions

$sales = [adsi] "LDAP://localhost:389/ou=Sales,dc=Fabrikam,dc=COM"

$east = $sales.Create("OrganizationalUnit", "OU=East") $east.Put("wwwHomePage", "http://fabrikam.com/sales/east") $east.SetInfo()

$west = $sales.Create("OrganizationalUnit", "OU=West") $west.Put("wwwHomePage", "http://fabrikam.com/sales/west") $west.SetInfo()