Specifies the name of an organizational unit.
For help in understanding the attribute definition template, see Reading NDS Attribute Type Definitions.
For the Organizational Unit class, this attribute is mandatory.
When used as a component of an NDS name, an organizational unit name identifies a unit of an organization with which the named object is affiliated. The unit is understood to be part of an organization designated by an O (Organization Name) attribute assigned to the same object. It follows that if an OU (Organizational Unit Name) attribute is used in an NDS name, it must be associated with an O (Organization Name) attribute.
An attribute value for OU (Organizational Unit Name) is a string chosen by the organization to which the unit belongs. An example of an organizational unit name is
OU=Technology Division
An LDAP schema query requires extensions to return NDS attribute constraints.