Acronyms

ABC

Abstract Base Class

ACID

Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ADSI

Active Directory Service Interfaces

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

APPC

Advanced Program-to-Program Communication

ASP

Active Server Pages

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BASH

Bourne Again Shell

BDM

Business Development Manager

BINL

Boot Information Negotiation Layer

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution

CAL

Client Access License

CICS

Customer Interface Control System

CIM

1. Common Information Model
2. Computer Information Model

CLB

Component Load Balancing

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

COM

Component Object Model

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CSMI

CICS Mirror Transaction

DACL

Discretionary Access Control List

DBG

Debug Format

DCOM

Distributed Component Object Mode

DDL

Data Definition Language

DDNS

Dynamic Domain Name Service

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DLL

Dynamic-link Library

DML

Data Manipulation/Modification Language

DNA

Distributed InterNet Applications

DPA

Demand Protocol Architecture

DRF

Data Recovery Field

DSN

1. Data Source Name
2. Domain Server Name

DTD

Document Type Definition

DVD

Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk

ECMA

European Computer Manufacturing Association

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange

ELSA

Electronic Library Services and Applications

EXE

Executable File

FEK

File Encryption Key

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

GC

Global Catalog

GINA

Graphical Identification and Authentication

GPE

Group Policy Editor

GPO

Group Policy Object

GSNW

Gateway Services for NetWare

GUI

Graphic User Interface

HCL

Hardware Compatibility List

HLLAPI

High Level Language Application Programming Interface

HKLM

HKey_Local_Machine

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IDE

1. Integrated Development Environment
2. Integrated Drive Electronics

IDOC

Intermediate Document

IID

Interface Identifier

IIS

Internet Information Services (Internet Information Server)

IMS

Information Management System

IPsec

Internet Protocol security

IrDA

Infrared Data Association

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

ITIL

Information Technology Infrastructure Library

IXFR

Incremental Transfer

JIT

Just-in-Time

JNDI

Java Naming and Directory Interface

JTS

Java Transaction Service

KDC

Key Distribution Center

LAN

Local Area Network

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LORG

Large Organization

LU

Logical Unit

MICR

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MLV

Multilanguage Version

MOF

Managed Object Format

MORG

Medium-sized Organization

MRO

Maintenance Repair and Operations

MSDE

1. Microsoft Data Engine
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine

MSI

Microsoft Windows Installer

MSP

1. Managed Service Provider
2. Messaging Service Provider
3. Message Security Protocol

MTS

1. Microsoft Transaction Server

2. Microsoft Technical Support

NAL

NetWare Applications Launcher

NCP

1. Network Control Program
2. Network Control Protocol
3. NetWare Core Protocol

NDPS

Novell Distributed Print Services

NFS

Network File System

NIS

Network Information Service

NLS

National Language Support

NTLM

NT LAN-Manager

NTW

New Technology Workstation

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ODBC

Open Database Connectivity

OLTP

Online Transaction Processing

OO

Object Oriented

OPP

Order Processing Pipeline

OS

Operating System

OTM

Object Transaction Middleware

PCL

Printer Control Language

PDC

Primary Domain Controller

PG

Product Group

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PnP

Plug and Play

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface

PPTP

Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

PTM

Participating Transaction Manager

PXE

Pre-boot Execution Environment

QFE

Quick Fix Engineering

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RDO

Remote Data Object

RDS

Remote Data Services

RID

1. Relative Identifier
2. Record ID

RM

Resource Manager

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

RR

Resource Records

RTL

Register Transfer Language

SAA

System Application Architecture

SAM  

Security Accounts Manager

SAS

Secure Attention Sequence

SCE

Security Configuration Editor

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SD

Security Descriptor

SDK

Software Development Kit

SI

System Integrator

SIS

Single Instance Store

SMS

Systems Management Server

SNA

Systems Network Architecture

SP

Stored Procedure

SRM

Security Reference Monitor

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

SSPI

Security Support Provider Interface

TCE

Tightly Coupled Events System

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TGT

1. Transaction Group Type
2. Ticket Granting Ticket
3. Target Tracker

TLB

Type Library

TM

Transaction Manager

TPD

Transactions Per Day

TPM

Transactions Per Minute

TSA

Target Service Agent

UCS

1. User Coordinate System
2. Universal Character Set
3. Unicode Conversion Support

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UML

1. Unified Modeling Language
2. Universal Markup Language

UPN

User Principal Name

USB

Universal Serial Bus

USN

Update Sequence Numbers

VAN

Value Added Network

VxD

Virtual Device Driver

WBEM

Web-based Enterprise Management

WFP

Windows File Protection

WINS

Windows Internet Name Service

WQL

WMI Query Language

XA

Extended Architecture

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XSL

Extensible Style Language

ZAW

Zero Administration for Windows