In computing , an organizational unit ( OU ) provides a way of classifying objects located in directories , or names in a digital certificate hierarchy , typically used either to differentiate between objects with the same name (John Doe in OU "marketing" versus John Doe in OU "customer service"), or to parcel out authority to create and manage objects (for example: to give rights for user-creation to local technicians instead of having to manage all accounts from a single central group). Organizational units most commonly appear in X.500 directories, X.509 certificates, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories, Active Directory (AD), and Lotus Notes directories and certificate trees, but they may feature in almost any modern directory or digital certificate container grouping system.
9-924: [REDACTED] Look up ou in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. OU or Ou or ou may stand for: Universities [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Oakland University in Oakland County, Michigan Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia Ohio University in Athens, Ohio Olivet University in San Francisco, California University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma Japan [ edit ] Osaka University ,
18-473: A common policy to them. Organizational Units give a hierarchical structure, and when properly designed can ease administration. Novell and Lotus supplied the two largest software directory systems. Each of these companies started with flat account and directory structures, and encountered the support and name-conflict limitations inherent in their flat structures. They adopted the X.500 OU concept into their next-generation software around 1993 – Novell with
27-1045: A national research university Okayama University , a national university Onomichi City University , a public university in Hiroshima Prefecture Otemae University , a private university in Hyogo Prefecture Ohu University , a private university in Fukushima Prefecture Other countries [ edit ] Hong Kong Metropolitan University , Hong Kong, previously the Open University of Hong Kong Osnabrück University , Germany Open University , United Kingdom Open University of Mauritius , Mauritius Osmania University , India University of Otago , New Zealand University of Ottawa , Canada University of Oxford , United Kingdom Language and writing [ edit ] Ou (digraph) Ou (ligature) ,
36-633: A river in Laos Ōu (奥羽), a synonym of Tōhoku region , Japan Ōu Mountains Ōu Main Line Ohu University Organizations [ edit ] Croatia Airlines (IATA code OU) Orthodox Union (Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America) Our Ukraine (political party) Other uses [ edit ] ʻŌʻū , a bird ( Psittirostra psittacea ) oculi uterque , Latin for both eyes , in eyeglass prescriptions Organizational Unit in computing, particularly in
45-438: A top-level organization grouping or organization certificate, called a domain. In many systems one OU can also exist within another OU. When OUs are nested, as one OU contains another OU, this creates a relationship where the contained OU is called the child and the container is called the parent. Thus, OUs are used to create a hierarchy of containers within a domain. Only OUs within the same domain can have relationships. OUs of
54-480: The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Over unity , a phrase related to perpetual motion "Overused", in competitive Pokémon tiering One Utama, or 1 Utama Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title OU . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
63-583: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OU&oldid=1237871888 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages ou">ou The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Organizational Unit In most systems, organizational units appear within
72-605: The ligature ȣ in the Latin and Greek alphabets Uk (Cyrillic) , the Cyrillic letter Ꙋ, derived from the ou ligature OU, an abbreviation for Old Ukrainian, an aspect of the Ruthenian language from the 11th to the 14th century Surnames [ edit ] Ō (surname) , anglicized as Oh and often romanized as Ou, (王), a Japanese family name Ou (surname) (區 or 歐), a Chinese family name Geography [ edit ] Nam Ou ,
81-774: The same name in different domains are independent. The name organizational unit appears to represent a single organization with multiple units (departments) within that organization . However, OUs do not always follow this model. They might represent geographical regions, job-functions, associations with other (external) groups, or the technology used in relation to the objects. Examples would include: In Sun Java System Directory Server and Microsoft Active Directory (AD), an organizational unit (OU) can contain any other unit, including other OUs, users, groups, and computers. Organizational units in separate domains may have identical names but are independent of each other. OUs let an administrator group computers and users so as to apply
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