Our helpdesk uses ADManager as a tool for making Active Directory changes.  Though it is slower than accessing AD directly, it’s a pretty robust tool and it’s reasonably intuitive in most cases.  However, I needed to create a new Organizational Unit in AD and simply poking around didn’t turn up the solution.

Well, that’s because this particular step is decidedly unintuitive.

For your edification (and my memory) I present here the easy steps to accomplish this mild feat.

1. Drop back to the ADManager dashboard by clicking the ADMgmt tab near the top of the page.
2. Click on the “Create Single User” link (under “User Creation”).
3. Near the bottom you will see a field for “Container:”; to its right click the “[Change]” link.
4. Select your preferred parent OU in the main section, then click on the “Create New OU” link (near the top and to the right of the “Selected Container:” field).
5. Enter the “Name:” in the small pop-up dialog.
6. Then it’s the Create and Ok buttons to get that done.
7. You can leave the unused Create Single User page as it was just a patsy.

Finis!

Hope that helps you.