Missing some of my AD OU’s from my OD workgroup manager

[Anonymous]

I have succesfully integrated my AD & OD. My problem is that when i try to manage prefs on my mac clients thru workgroup manager. I can’t see all of my users. It seems like entire ou’s are missing. Also when i try to create computer groups i can’t see all the computers, mac or pc. Do the machines have to be on or does it pull the info from the AD.

here’s how my ou’s are organized:

domain.internal
computers
Staff
Teachers
Students
2006
2007
2008
2009

now in my OD in workgroup manager i can see ou’s. 2006,2007,2008,Staff,students

The ones i’m not seeing any users from are 2009, and teachers.
I’m not sure where to even start trying to diagnose this at. On the OD or the AD, at first i thought maybe the ou’s had to be at the root level but then how come i can see some of them.

I read on bombich’s AD/OD integration article that it took a day or 2 for them to synch with each other. But this has been a week + with no changes.

Any suggestions, has anybody run into this.

Jon Phillips
Princeton Regional Schools
JPhillips@monet.prs.k12.nj.us

[Anonymous]

somehow the formatting on that last message got messed up.

Students, Staff, Computers are ou’s on the root.

2006,2007,2008,2009 are sub-ou’s of students.

teachers is a sub-ou of staff

sorry for the inconvienence

[Anonymous]

So let me get this straight if i want to manage a users prefs on a mac station i need to create a group on the AD with the user or users in it, then add that group into a OD group and manage the prefs on a group level.

This seems like a work-around. I used your and bombich’s article to integrate my OD and AD, did i do something wrong. Did you have this problem when you were researching for the article. What i’m getting at is this is a production server, is this a forecast of things to come?

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