Lesson 01 Glossary for Install Windows Server 2012 R2 Flashcards
Microsoft’s implementation of the LDAP directory service networking database.
Active Directory stores information about objects in a central database and makes it available to users
Active Directory
Active Directory Federated Services (AD FS) Windows Server 2012 role that provides web single sign-on (SSO) technologies to authenticate a user to multiple web applications over the life of a single online session.
Active Directory Federated Services (AD FS)
A Windows Server 2012 role that provides the ability to protect and control use of digital content. ad hoc mode A form of wireless communication in which computers connect directly to each other without using an access point or bridge.
Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS)
Windows Server machines that host applications that all users access.
Application server
Host that connects to a server-based machine.
Client
The TCP/IP network service that translates textual Internet network addresses into numerical Internet network addresses.
Domain Name System (DNS)
Settings that can affect the behavior of, and the functionality available to users and computers.
Group policies allow system administrators to customize end user settings and to place restrictions on the types of actions that users can perform.
Group policies can be applied to one or more users or computers within the Active Directory environment. See also Group Policy object (GPO).
Group Policy
A mode of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 where a session can connect to a specific application, making the remote applications appear to run locally to the client.
RD RemoteApp
A credit-card-sized card with embedded integrated circuits that can process information.
A smart card can be used to implement two-factor authentication.
The card stores user certificate information, and it is used with a PIN as an alternative to the standard username and password logon process.
Smart card
Digital media that can be accessed while continuously being delivered across a network.
Streaming media
A component of Windows Server 2012 or prior that allows users to access applications and data remotely.
Terminal Services
The virtual machine bus used to handle high-speed requests from hypervisor-aware guest operating systems to the physical device in the parent partition.
VMbus
