Problem with GPO OU and AD OU

What happens when you rename the "MyBusiness" OU in the GPMC? Well, first off you will be unable to change permissions for users or add new users since the "MyBusiness" OU in AD is no longer there. You need to reinstall the server tools to correct this as well as a couple of extra steps (see below). Renaming the OU back to it's original name does not correct the problem as I found out.

The problem came up because I had renamed the "My Business" OU in group policy. This prevented the add user wizard from running from the management console. I had renamed the OU back to My Business (with a space) prior to reinstalling the consoles. So, I reinstalled the consoles and all is well. Except... now there are 2 OU's in group policy and in active directory. The 2 are: My Business and MyBusiness. The correct My Business folder in AD has 2 recently added Win XP PC's listed in the computers - sbscomputers section. The other "MyBusiness" entry has no such entries. The sites is more or less empty except for the user templates in the sbsusers folder.

When I renamed the MyBusiness OU back to its original name, I renamed it to "My Business" (with a space). This is why the Add User wizard still didn't work after renaming it back. It was looking for "MyBusiness". So I reinstall the SBS Console and it creates "MyBusiness" so now there are 2. I then move the user templates and security groups from the "MyBusiness" OU (no space) to the "My Business" OU (with the space). Delete "MyBusiness" and rename "My Business" to "MyBusiness".

Once you have everything moved into the "MyBusiness" (no space) OU in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADU&C), you can rename or delete the "My Business" (with the space) OU in ADU&C. After you rename or delete the "My Business" (with the space) OU in ADU&C, the change will show up in the Group Policy Management Console.

Thanks to Chris Puckett at Microsoft for support on this issue.