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| Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 directory service that automates network management, such as user data, resources, and security. |
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| In Active directory, the individual properties that combine to form an object. |
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| The process by which Windows Server 2008 verifies that the user matches the user account employed to gain access. |
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| The process of determine whether an indentified user or process is permitted access to a resource and the user's appropriate level of access. |
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| In Active Directory, an object, such as a domain or organizational unit, that has leaf objects or other container objects as its subordinates. |
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| Directory Access Protocol (DAP) |
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| A communications protocol specified in the X.500 standard. Also progenitor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (DLAP). |
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| An Active Directory component that specifies the attributes each type of object can posses, the type of data that can be stored in each attribute, and the object's place in the directory tree. |
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| A Windows server with Active Directory directory service installed. Each workstation computer joins the domain and its represented by a computer object. Administrators create user objects that represent human users. A domain differs from a workgroup because users log on to the domain once, rather than to each individual computer. |
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| In Active Directory, An architectural element that consist of one or more domains that are part of the same contiguous namespace. |
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| In Active Directory, an architectural element that consist of one or more domain trees. |
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| In Active Directory, the first domain created in a forest. |
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| A list of all the objects in an Active Directory forest and a sub-set of each object's attributes, used by domain controllers to locate and access the resources of other domains in the same forest. |
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| In Active Directory, an object, such as a user or computer, that is incapable of containing any other object. |
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| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) |
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| The standard communication protocol for directory service products, including Active Directory. |
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| Multipl-Master replication |
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| A technique in which duplicate copies of a file are updated on a regula basis, no matter which copy changes. For example, if a file is duplicated on four different servers, a user can access any of the four copies and modify the file as needed. The replication engine uses the changes made to the modified copy to update the other three copies. Compare to single master replication. |
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| A container object that functions in a subordinate capacity to a domain, but without the complete seperation of security policies. |
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| Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) |
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| In Active Directory, a domain controller that supports only incoming replication traffic. |
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| In Active Directory, a domain-naming strategy in which an organization uses its registered domain name for its Active Directory tree root Domain. Compare with subzone method. |
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| Single-Master replication |
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| A technique in which duplicate copies of a file are updated on a regular basis from one master copy. For example, if a file is duplicated on four different servers, users can modify one copy and the replication engine propagates the changes to the other three copies. Compare with multiple master replication. |
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| A collection of subnets that have good connectivity between them |
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| In Active Directory, a domain-naming strategy in which an organization creates a subdomain beneath its registered Internet domain an uses that for its Active Directory tree root. Compare with root zone method. |
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