Recently I wanted to create our SCCM collections setup as our Active Directory structure. I finally figured out how to create collections per OU of the domain. I decided to create a simple tutorial that may help other IT professionals the steps to complete this task.

 

1. Open the ConfigMgr and navigation to the collections. To navigate to the collections go to Site Database>Computer Management>Collections.

2. In the ‘Collections’ right-click and select New Collections. Then it will pop up a Wizards so you can enter the name of the collection and any notes that you may want to add that is associated with the collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Next, select the database icon. In the ‘Name’ textbox enter the name of the query. I named mine ‘Query’ just for simplicity sake. After you enter the name select ‘Edit Query Statement…’

4. Select the ‘Criteria’ tab

5. Select the icon that looks like a sun.

6. At this point you should see a dialog box like this…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Next, click the ‘select’ button.

8. Under the ‘Attribute class’ scroll through until you see ’System Resource’ and for the ‘Attribute"’ scroll through you see ‘System OU Name’. It should look something like this…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. After that select OK.

10. In the ‘Value’ textbox enter the string that is associated with the OU in your domain.

NOTE: If you don’t know your string name for your OU you can simply go to “Active Directory Users and Computers” and right-click on the OU and select properties. In the ‘object’ tab you should see the string under the ‘Canonical name of object”. That is the string that you put in the ‘Value’ text box.

11. After you enter the OU string name press OK>OK>OK>NEXT>NEXT>FINISH.

 

That’s it!

 

I hope this tutorial has help you understand how to create a collection through your OU structure.