The SBS products (SBS 2003/2008/2011) all included a pre-installed set of Group Policy OU’s called MyBusiness. Organizational Units (OU’s) are used to organize users and computers (workstations and servers) in order to manage and apply specific rules and policies.
However, the Essentials products (SBS 2011 Essentials, Windows 2012 Essentials) do not include the MyBusiness OU. So, if you wish to keep consistency between the SBS and Essentials platforms, you will need to create this on your own. One reason for doing this would be to implement the Group Policies related to blocking the CryptoLocker ransomware.
Fortunately, Microsoft did identify the basic steps for creating the MyBusiness OU in KB 2578426 and scroll down to Issue 3 / Rule 3 in the KB article for the required steps.
To (re)create the MyBusiness OU manually. To do this, follow these steps:
- Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
- Right-click the domain name object. In the shortcut menu, point to New…, and then click Organizational Unit. Type MyBusiness to name the new object.
Note Type MyBusiness as one word. - In the MyBusiness OU that you created in step 2, create the following OUs:
- Computers
- Distribution Groups
- Security Groups
- Users
- In the Computers OU that you created in step 3, create the following OUs:
- SBSComputers
- SBSServers
- In the Users OU that you created in step 3, create the following OU:
- SBSUsers
After you have finished these steps, your Group policy structure should look like this:
