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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