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| The policy that tracks the success of failure of specified security events. |
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| The process of recording a sequence of events on servers, workstation and other networking devices. These events are recorded in one or more logs. |
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| A disk-storage system supported in Windows that consist of primary partitions, extended partitions and logical drives. |
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| Windows utility that checks a hard disk for errors. It attempts to fix file-system errors and scans for and attempts to recover bad sectors. |
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| The command line utility used to encrypt the decrypt files on an NTFS volume. |
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| The command line utility used to compress and uncompress files on an NTFS volume. |
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| An advanced attribute of the NTFS file system used to reduce the amount of space that files and folders occupy on a partition or volume. |
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| A tool that can be used to keep the user's computer running smoothly. The hard disk becomes fragmented as users delete files, move files, delete and install programs and applications, and empty the Recycle Bin. The files on the hard disk aren't stored contiguously as they once were, and this causes the computer to work harder than necessary to locate the file fragments, put them toghether, and bring up the data. |
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| The GUI interface utility in Windows XP for managing hard drives. You can create partitions, format drives and other administrative duties to installed drives. |
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| Command line utility used in Windows XP and Server 2003 create partitions. Automatically launches during the installation process. |
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| A feature in Windows that allows you to limit the amount of disk space that can be consumed by a user. |
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| The drive division method that employs volumes. It is a new standard supported only by Windows XP and Windows 2003. |
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| A Partition on a basic disk that is created from un-partitioned free disk space, and is not formatted with a file system. The space is allocated to logical drives. |
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| Software that serves Internet higher-level protocols such as HTTP and FTP to clients using web browsers. The software that is installed on a Windows 2008 Server computer is a fully functioning web server and is designed to support heavy Internet usage. |
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| A fault-tolerant disk strategy in which a volume on one dynamic disk has its contents mirrored to a second dynamic disk. |
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| A set of access restrictions available on hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system. File and folder permission include Read, Write, List Folder Contents, Read and Execute, Modify and Full Control. These permissions are effective both locally and over the network. |
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| The process whereby a file or folder will assume the NTFS Permissions set on the parent folder the object is created within. |
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| A type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked active. There can be up to four on any single physical disk. |
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| A drive configuration of three or more parts (up to 32) of one or more drives or three or more entire drives. Data is written to all drives in equal amounts to spread the workload,and parity information is added to the written data to allow for drive failure recovery. Also known as disk striping with parity. |
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| The NTFS permission that allows a user to "open" and "run" an application. |
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| The account that can be used to acces EFS- encrypted files when the user who created the files is not available to decrypt them. |
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| A feature in Windows Server 2008 that can be enabled on a volume-by-volume basis to allow a user to view or recover previous versions of files stored in shared folders. |
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| A data resource container that has been made available over the network to authorized network clients. |
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| A dynamic disk volume that consist of disk space on 2 to 32 dynamic drives. These are used to dynamically increase the size of a dynamic volume. Data is written sequentially, filling space on one physical drive before writing to space on the next physical drive in the set. |
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| A drive configuration of two or more parts (up to 32) of one or more drives or two or more entire drives (up to 32). Data is written to all drives in equal amounts to spread the workload and improve performance. Each part or drive must be roughly equal in size and it does not provide any fault tolerance - if one drive fails, all data is lost. |
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