Active directory Schema - Multiple password policies

Question

Hi All,
I am new to AD and would need some suggestion to configure AD. I want to set up AD(2008 R2) for three categories of users: individual, dealers and organisations. Each dealer and each organisation will have further sub-categories based
on their location. I want to set up separate password policies for the above three categories using AD. I wanted to create them as separate OUs. So I would have multiple OUs for each dealer per location (e.g. individual, dealer1loc1, dealer1loc2,
dealer2loc3 and so on)
I know the concept of PSO(Password Settings Object) and that it can only be applied to OU using shadow groups and batch file (to copy users from OU to Shadow Groups). The issue is that the OUs would keep getting added as per requirement (would
be  creating new OUs using C#) and then the management of PSO or shadow groups or batch file would be very complicated, not sure if it can be automated.
Also, I have budet constraints to add new servers for each domain and separate password policies.
What could be the possible solution to separate password policies and set up this user structure in Active Directory. I am using W2k8 R2.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks Mahdi. In this case, the OUs would get created at run time, so the script needs to get updated at run time as well. I guess this will be not easy to automate.
Also, can you confirm if I can set up separate password policies by creating sub domain(e.g. example.com will be divided into sales.example.com and admin.example.com and this would further be divided as melourne.sales.example.com and sydney.sales.example.com)
and I can set separate password policies for sales.example.com and admin.example.com.
By adding child domains,it is like you are killing a mosquito with a rocket launcher, if you know what I mean. adding child domains increase the cost and administration and also adds complexity to your environment.
From technical perspective it is OK to have child domains, but if I were you I would not add that much complexity to my environment because of a script. I would spend enough time or get help form a skilled script writer to edit the script. Also I am saying
that editing your script to a fully automated script is not impossible, it just needs enough time and skills.
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