Microsoft Exchange Server for Windows 2000: Planning, Design, and Implementation
A comprehensive resource for implementors and managers of Exchange Server 2000 networks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Microsoft Exchange Server for Windows 2000: Planning, Design, and Implementation
Glossary
- A:
- Address record. A DNS resource record that maps a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) to an IP address.
- ACE:
- Access Control Entry, or the basic unit of Windows 2000 security. ACEs control access to NTFS files and AD objects. They consist of a security principal (SID) and an access mask, which defines the access rights for the SID.
- ACL:
- Access Control List, a set of ACEs that defines the rights to a file or AD object.
- AD:
- Active Directory, the directory service used by Windows 2000 and associated applications, such as Exchange 2000.
- ADC:
- Active Directory Connector, the component that controls synchronization between the AD and the DS. The ADC manages one or more connection agreements that define how and when objects are synchronized between the two directories.
- ADO:
- Application Data Objects or Active Data Objects. A programming layer built on top of OLE/DB that allows high-level programming languages such as Visual Basic to access a data store via a common query language.
- Administration Group:
- A collection of Exchange 2000 servers that share common administration policies.
- ADMT:
- Active Directory Management Tool. A utility provided by Microsoft to help migrate Windows NT 4.0 users to Windows 2000.
- ADSI:
- Active Directory Services Interface, the API used to programmatically manipulate AD objects. The interface is supported by COM-compatible programming languages such as Visual Basic, VBScript, and C++.
- API:
- Application Programming Interface.
- ASN.1:
- A method of encoding X.400 messages.
- ASP:
- Application Service Provider. A company acting as a service provider that...
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