Appendix K: Acronym List
Acronym List: These terms have been used in this guide.
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACL | access control list |
| ADAM | Active Directory Application Mode |
| ADSI | Active Directory Service Interfaces |
| API | application programming interface |
| AS | Authentication Service |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASID | Access, Searching, and Indexing of Directories |
| AXFR | Asynchronous Full Transfer Zone |
| BDC | backup domain controller |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
| CA | certification authority |
| CCITT | International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee |
| DAP | Directory Access Protocol |
| DAS | Directory Access Service |
| DCE | distributed computing environment |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DIT | Directory Information Tree |
| DIXIE | Directory Interface to X.500 Implemented Efficiently |
| DN | distinguished name |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DNSSEC | DNS Security |
| DSA | Directory System Agent |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DUA | Directory User Agent |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESE | Extensible Storage Engine |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GECOS | General Electric Comprehensive Operating System |
| GID | Group Identification |
| GINA | Graphical Identification and Authentication |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSS-API | Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface |
| GUI | graphical user interface |
| GUID | globally unique identifier |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IDE | integrated development environment |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IIS | Internet Information Services (Internet Information Server for versions earlier than 5.0) |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPCC | Interprocess Communication Call |
| ISAM | indexed sequential access method |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IT | information technology |
| ITIL | Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
| IXFR | Incremental zone transfer |
| KCC | Knowledge Consistency Checker |
| KDC | Key Distribution Center |
| LAN | local area network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LADAPv3 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 3 |
| LAM | Loadable Authentication Module |
| LDIF | LDAP Interchange Format |
| LSA | Local Security Authority |
| MAPI | Messaging Application Programming Interface |
| MCIS | Microsoft Commercial Internet System |
| MIB | management information base |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MMC | Microsoft Management Console |
| MOF | Microsoft Operations Framework |
| MOM | Microsoft Operations Manager |
| MSF | Microsoft Solutions Framework |
| MTA | message transfer agent |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
| MUA | Message User Agents |
| MUI | Multilingual User Interface Pack |
| NAT | network address translation |
| NDR | Network Data Representation |
| NDS | Novell Directory Services (formerly NetWare Directory Services) |
| NIS | Network Information Service |
| NLB | Network Load Balancing |
| NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
| NSCD | Name Service Cache Daemon |
| NSS | Name Service Switch |
| NTFS | NTFS file system |
| NTLM | Windows NT LAN Manager |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OU | organizational unit |
| PAM | pluggable authentication modules |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDC | primary domain controller |
| PKCS | Public-Key Cryptography Standards |
| PM | program manager |
| PRNG | Pseudo-Random Name Generator |
| RDN | relative distinguished name |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RIS | Remote Installation Service |
| RPC | remote procedure call |
| RR | Resource Record |
| SACL | system access control list |
| SAM | Security Accounts Manager |
| SAS | Secure Attention Sequence |
| SASL | Simple Authentication and Security Layer |
| SID | security identifier |
| SLA | service level agreement |
| SLAPD | Stand-alone LDAP Directory |
| SMB | server message block |
| SMF | service management function |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNTP | Simple Network Time Protocol |
| SPN | service principal name |
| SRV | service locator records |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSP | security support provider |
| SSPI | Security Support Provider Interface |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TGS | Ticket Granting Service |
| TGT | Ticket-Granting Ticket |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TSIG | Transaction Signatures |
| TTL | Time to Live |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UI | user interface |
| UID | User Identification |
| UMPG | UNIX Migration Project Guide |
| UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
| VAS | Vintela Authentication Services |
| WAN | wide area network |
| WSH | Windows Script Host |
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