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| Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) |
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| A server role available in Windows Server 2008 that enables administrators to create and administer PKI certificates for uses, computers, and applications. |
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| A partition that allows information to be replicated to administratively chosen domain controllers. |
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| Characteristics associated with an object class in Active Directory that make the object class unique within the database. |
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| The configuration partition contains information regarding the physical topology of the network. |
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| An object, such as a domain or an Organizational Unit that is used to organize other objects. |
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| Trust tyoe that allows resources to be shared between Active Directory forests. |
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| Administration of an Organizational Unit is tasked to a departmental superviser or manager, thus allowing that person to manage day-to-day resource access as well as more mundane tasks, suchs as resetting passwords. |
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| Allows businesses to define, manage, access, and secure network resources, including files, printers, people, and applications. |
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| The full name of an object that includes all hierarchical containers leading up to the root domain. |
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| A grouping of objects in Active Directory that cna managed together. |
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| A server that stores the Active Directory database and authenticates users with the network during logon. |
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| The name resolution mechanism computers use for all Internet communications and for private networks that use the Active Directory Domain Services. |
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| Active Directory domain partition that is replicated to each domain controller within a particular domain. |
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| In Active Directory, a logical grouping of network resources and devices that can contain one or more domains configured in a parent-child relationship. |
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| A one-way, nontransitive trust that is established with a Windows NT domain or Windows 2000 domain in separate forest. |
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| The ability to respond gracefully to a software or hardware failure. |
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| The largest container within Active Directory. |
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| The first domain created within an Active Directory forest. |
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| Designed to offer support for Active Directory domain controllers running various supported operating system. |
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| Globally Unique Indentifier (GUID) |
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| A 128-bit hexadecimal number that is assigned to every object in the Active Directory forest upon creation. |
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| Occurs when a domain controller receives updates to the Active Directory database from other domains controllers on the network. |
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| A unique number used to identify all devices on an IP network. |
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| Knowlegde Consistency Checker (KCC) |
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| An internal Active Directory process that automatically creates and maintains the replication topology. |
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| An object, such as domain or organizational unit that is used to organize other objects. |
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| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) |
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| The protocol that has become an industry standard that enables data exchange between direcotry services and applicatitons. |
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| When a change is made to the member list of a group object. |
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| Active Directory DNS provides direction for network clients that need to know which server performs what funtion. |
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| Individual domain controllers in an Active Directory database may contain slightly different information. |
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