Glossary of Terms

- A -

Active Directory

Admission Control Service

- B -

backup domain controller

basic input/output system

- C -

Common Gateway Interface

Component Object Model

Cyclical Redundancy Check

- D -

directory service

distinguished name

Distributed File System

domain controller

Domain Name System

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

dynamic-link library

- E -

Encrypting File System

environment variable

- F -

fault tolerance

File Transfer Protocol

Flexible Single Master Operation

- G -

globally unique identifier

Group Policy object

- H -

Hardware Abstraction Layer

hierarchical storage management

High-Performance File System

Hypertext Markup Language

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

- I -

infrastucture master

Internet Protocol

Internet Server Application Program Interface

- J -

- K -

key distribution center

Knowledge Consistency Checker

- L -

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

local area network

Local Security Authority

- M -

Management Information Base

Master Boot Record

Media Access Control

Microsoft Management Console

- N -

- O -

Object Linking and Embedding

Open Database Connectivity

organizational unit

- P -

partition table

Performance Monitor

Post Office Protocol

primary domain controller

- Q -

Quality of Service

quorum resource

- R -

Reduced Instruction Set Computing

Registry Editor

relative identifier

Remote Access Service

Remote Procedure Call

Remote Procedure Call service

Removable Storage

Request for Comments

Resource Reservation Protocol

ring transition

- S -

Security Accounts Manager

security descriptor

security identifier

Server Message Block

Simple Mail Transport Protocol

Simple Network Management Protocol

Small Computer System Interface

stripe set with parity

Structured Query Language

- T -

Traffic Control

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Transport Driver Interface

transport protocol

trust relationship

- U -

Uniform Resource Locator

Universal Naming Convention

Universal Serial Bus

update sequence number

User Datagram Protocol

UUEncoding/Decoding

- V -

- W -

wide area network

Windows® Internet Name Service

- X -

- Y -

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- Z -

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