This is a glossary of acronyms used with Microsoft technologies. An acronym is an abbreviated term formed from the first letter (or first few letters) of several words. Many acronyms are used in Microsoft technologies, and new ones appear constantly. Often someone unfamiliar with the acronym does not even know what technology area it refers to. Some are used in many areas of information technology.
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Acronym for 2 Factor Authentication. A variant of Multi-Factor Authentication. See MFA.
Acronym for Anti-Aliasing. See Anti-aliasing filter.
Acronym for Azure Active Directory. Active Directory Domain Services in the Windows Azure cloud. Windows Azure is the Microsoft cloud computing platform, and one of the services available is Active Directory.
Acronym for Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management. See Azure Rights Management.
Acronym for Azure Active Directory Join. See Azure AD Join on Windows 10 devices.
Acronym for Alternate Access Mappings. Directs users to the correct URLs during their interaction with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. See Plan alternate access mappings (Office SharePoint Server).
Acronym for Azure Analysis Services. See What is Azure Analysis Services?
Acronym for Attribute Based Access Control. See Introducing Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) in Azure.
Acronym for Attribute Certificate. A digital X.509 document containing attributes associated with a user.
Also acronym for Authorization Certificate, where the associated attributes in the digital document are used mainly for authorization.
Acronym for Access Control Entry. Individual entries in a security descriptor (called an access control list or ACL). Specifies permissions granted or denied to trustees for the resource to which the ACE applies.
Acronym for Access Control List. A collection of Access Control Entries (ACE's) that specify the security applied to a resource.
Acronym for Access Control Service (Azure). A cloud based service providing authentication and authorization for web based applications and services. See Access Control 2.0.
Also acronym for Audit Collection Services (SC Operations Manager). Collects records generated by an audit policy and stores them in a centralized database. See Audit Control Services (ACS).
Acronym for Active Directory. See Active Directory.
Acronym for Active Directory Certificate Services. See .
Acronym for Active Directory Domain Services. Microsoft's directory service product. See Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Overview.
Acronym for Active Directory Federation Services. See Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Overview.
Acronym for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services. This used to be called Active Directory Application Mode, or ADAM. A database for directory-enabled applications that do not need AD DS. See Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Overview.
Acronym for Active Directory Rights Management Services. See Active Directory Rights Management Services Overview.
Acronym for Active Directory Administrative Center. See Active Directory Administrative Center: Getting Started.
Acronym for Windows Azure Active Directory Authentication Library. See Azure AD Authentication Library for .NET.
Acronym for Active Directory Application Mode, now renamed Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).
Acronym for Active Directory Based Activation. See Active Directory-Based Activation Overview.
Acronym for Azure Disk Encryption. See Announcing Azure Disk Encryption Preview for Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
Acronym for Active Directory Federation Services. See Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Overview.
Acronym for Azure Data Lake Analytics. See Managing Pipeline & Recurring Jobs in Azure Data Lake Analytics Made Easy.
Acronym for Active Directory Migration Tool. Toolset to facilitate migration and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory Domain Services infrastructure. See ADMT Guide: Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains.
Acronym for Application Delivery Network. See Frequently asked questions for Azure Front Door.
Acronym for ActiveX Data Objects. ADSI can act as an OLE-DB provider that allows database queries of Active Directory using ADO. Active Directory searches using ADO are only allowed in the LDAP namespace. ADO can also be used to access Microsoft Access databases, SQL Server databases, and even text files.
Acronym for Azure Device Registration Service.
Acronym for Active Directory Service Interface. A library of routines that provide an interface to various directory namespaces, such as Active Directory, the Windows NT SAM account database, Novell bindery, Novell NDS, and Internet Information Server (IIS).
Acronym for Active Directory Users and Computers, the MMC snap-in used to manage objects in Active Directory. Besides users and computers, you can also use this tool to manage contacts, groups, containers, and Organizational Units.
Acronym for Active Directory Web Services. A Windows service that provides a Web interface to Active Directory domains, Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services instances, and Active Directory Database Mounting Tool instances on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (or above) server. See What's New in AD DS: Active Directory Web Services.
Acronym for Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data. See Authenticated encryption.
Acronym for Advanced Encryption Standard. A specification for the encryption of electronic data used by Kerberos. Supercedes the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
Acronym for Azure Front Door. See What is Azure Front Door?.
Acronym for Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management. Tool to manage Group Policy Objects (GPO). Part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance. See Overview Series: Advanced Group Policy Management.
Acronym for Authority Information Access. Points to the public key for the certificate authority (CA) in AD CS. See AD CS: Authority information access locations should be included in the extensions of issued certificates.
Acronym for Azure Image Builder. See Azure Image Builder overview.
Acronym for Windows Automated Installation Kit. See Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK).
Acronym for Azure Information Protection. See What is Azure Information Protection?
Acronym for Automatic Investigation and Remediation. See Automated investigation and response (AIR) capabilities in Microsoft Threat Protection.
Acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. See Ajax (programming).
Acronym for Azure Kubernetes Service.
Acronym for Application Lifecycle Management. See Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management.
Acronym for Ambiguous Name Resolution, an efficient search algorithm in Active Directory that allows you to specify complex LDAP syntax filters involving multiple naming-related attributes in a single clause. The attributes must be ANR enabled in the directory schema. See Active Directory: Ambiguous Name Resolution.
Acronym for American National Standards Institute. A private non-profit organization that oversees development of voluntary consensus standards in the United States. See American National Standards Institute.
Acronym for Application Object Server. See AOS Overview [AX 2012].
Acronym for Authentication Package. See Authentication Packages.
Acronym for Application Programming Interface. See Application programming interface.
Acronym for Microsoft Application Virtualization. See Microsoft App-V.
Acronym for Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine. A family of processors based on RISC architecture originally developed by Acorn Computers (now ARM Holdings). The RISC based design requires fewer transistors resulting in lower costs, reduced power consumption, and less heat. This makes ARM processors ideal for small battery powered devices. See ARM architecture.
Also acronym for Azure Resource Manager. See What is Azure Resource Manager.
Acronym for Address Resolution Protocol, a communication protocol. See Address Resolution Protocol.
Also a command to display and modify entries in the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache. See arp.
Acronym for Application Request Routing. See Using the Application Request Routing Module.
Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A character encoding scheme. See ASCII.
Acronym for Abstract Syntax Notation. See Abstract Syntax Notation One.
Acronym for Active Server Pages. Server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages. Superseded by ASP.NET
Acronym for Active Server Pages .NET. Framework based on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to build dynamic web applications and services using any supported .NET language. Successor to ASP. See ASP.NET.
Acronym for Attribute Scoped Query. See Performing an Attribute Scoped Query.
Acronym for Azure Site Recovery. See Microsoft Azure Site Recovery: Your DR Site in Microsoft Azure.
Acronym for Advanced Technology Attachment. Host adapter that allows a computer to communicate with a peripheral bus. See Parallel ATA.
Also acronym for Advanced Threat Analysis.
Acronym for Azure Traffic Manager. See What is Traffic Manager?.
Acronym for Advanced Threat Protection. See Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
Acronym for Administrative Unit. See Administrative units (preview) | Graph API concepts.
Acronym for AutheNtication. See Authentication vs. authorization.
Acronym for Automatic Investigation and Remediation. See Automated investigation and response (AIR) capabilities in Microsoft Threat Protection.
Acronym for Azure Virtual Desktop. See Introduction to the Power Automate Azure Virtual Desktop integration starter kit.
Acronym for Automatic Virtual Machine Activation. See Automatic Virtual Machine Activation.
Acronym for Address Windowing Extensions. A Windows api that allows a 32-bit software application to access more physical memory than it has virtual address space. See Address Windowing Extensions.
Acronym for Amazon Web Services. See Amazon Web Services.
Acronym for Business 2 (to) Business. See Business-to-business.
Acronym for Business 2 (to) Consumer. See Retail.
Acronym for Business 2 (to) Employee. See Business-to-employee.
Acronym for Business 2 (to) X, meaning both Business To Business (B2B) and Business To Consumer (B2C). See Azure AD, B2B, B2C, DS, B2x - Straining the Alphabet Soup.
Also acronym for Binary 2 (to) Open XML. See Binary to Open XML (B2X) Translator: Interoperability for the Office binary file formats.
Acronym for Business Activity Monitoring. Software to monitor business activities. See Business activity monitoring.
Binary to text encoding scheme, according to a MIME specification. Encodes any binary string (a byte sequence of 8-bit padded ASCII characters) using a 64 character alphabet of printable characters. Used by the ldifde command line utility.
Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. See BASIC.
Acronym for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
Acronym for Buffer Cache Hit Ratio. Percentage of pages found in the buffer pool without incurring a read from disk or a database query. Ratio of the number of logical reads to the number of physical reads.
Acronym for Business Connectivity Services. A SharePoint feature. Formerly called Business Data Catalog. See Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010.
Acronym for Backup Domain Controller. In NT domains there was one primary domain controller and zero or more backup domain controllers. The concepts no longer apply in Active Directory, which uses a multi-master database system where all domain controllers are are essentially equal.
Acronym for Basic Encoding Rules. See X.690.
Acronym for Business Intelligence. See Business intelligence.
Acronym for Business Intelligence Development Studio. See Business Intelligence Development Studio.
Acronym for Basic Input/Output System. Computer firmware interface. See BIOS.
Acronym for Background Intelligent Transfer Service. See Background Intelligent File Transfer Service (BITS) Overview.
Acronym for Backup File. Proprietary files created by the Windows NT Backup Utility (NTBackup) in Windows NT and above. The files have the .bkf extension. See NTBackup.
Acronym for Binary Large Object. A collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database. See Binary large object.
Acronym for Baseboard Management Controller. See Baseboard management controller.
Acronym for Bare Metal Recovery. Or Bare Metal Restore. See Bare-metal restore.
Acronym for Best Practices Analyzer. A server management tool. See Best Practices Analyzer.
Acronym for Business Rule Engine, a BizTalk feature. See Business Rule Engine.
Also acronym for Business Rules Engine, a .NET compliant class library. See Business Rules Engine.
Acronym for Blue Screen Of Death. The blue error screen displayed by some operating systems after encountering a critical system error. Usually, the system must be shut down.
Acronym for BizTalk Development Framework.
Acronym for Azure BizTalk Services, a cloud-based integration service. See BizTalk Services.
Acronym for Bring Your Own.
Acronym for Bring Your Own Device. See Bring your own device.
Acronym for Bring Your Own Encryption. See Bring your own encryption.
Acronym for Bring Your Own Key. Also called Bring Your Own Encryption (BYOE). See Bring Your Own Encryption.
Acronym for Bring Your Own Phone. See Bring your own device.
Acronym for Bring Your Own Personal Computer. See Bring your own device.
Acronym for Bring Your Own Technology. See Bring your own device.
Acronym for Certificate Authority, or sometimes Certification Authority. An entity that issues digital certificates. See Certificate authority.
Also acronym for Conditional Access.
Acronym for Cluster Aware Updating. Automates the software updating process on clustered servers while maintaining availability. See Cluster Aware Updating overview.
Acronym for Common Access Card. See Common Access Card.
Also acronym for Call Admission Ccontrol. See Call Admission Control.
Acronym for Computer-Aided Design. See Computer-aided design.
Acronym for Continuous Access Evaluation. See Continuous access evaluation.
Acronym for Continous Access Evaluation Protocol. See Azure AD security with Continuous Access Evaluation.
Acronym for Client Access License. See Client access license.
Acronym for Collaborative Application Markup Language. An XML based markup language used in SharePoint. See Introduction to Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML).
Acronym for the Microsoft CryptoAPI or Cryptographic Application Progamming Interface. Also known as MS-CAPI. An API in Windows operating systems for applications using cryptography.
Acronym for Client Access Server. An Exchange Server role that provides authentication, proxy, and limited redirection services. See Client Access server.
Also acronym for Cloud Application Security.
Acronym for Cloud Access Security Broker. See Microsoft Cloud App Security.
Acronym for Current Branch. See Difference between LTSB, CB, CBB for Windows 10.
Acronym for Claims Based Access.
Also acronym for Claims Based Authentication. See Get started with certificate-based authentication in Azure Active Directory.
Acronym for Current Branch for Business. See Difference between LTSB, CB, CBB for Windows 10.
Acronym for Central Certificate Store. See The Central Certificate Store. Also Centralized Certificate Store.
Also acronym for Common Control Styles. See Common Control Styles.
Also acronym for Carbon Capture and Storage. See Carbon Capture and Storage.
Acronym for Cloud and Datacenter Management. See Cloud and Datacenter Management System Center Update Rollup Improvements.
Acronym for Code Division Multiple Access. A channel access method used in radio communications, particularly in mobile phone standards. See Code division multiple access.
Acronym for Content Delivery Network, a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content that is hosted in Azure or other location. See Content Delivery Network.
Acronym for CRL Distribution Point. Location where the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is maintained, allowing clients to determine if a certificate has been revoked.
Acronym for Computer-Generated Imagery. See Computer-generated imagery.
Acronym for Customer Identity and Access Management. See Build resilience in your customer identity and access management with Azure Active Directory B2C.
Acronym for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management. See Microsoft Entra Permissions Management.
Acronym for Common Intermediate Language. Lowest level human readable programming language, defined by the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). Used by the .NET Framework and produced by .NET compilers. Independent of CPU or higher level languages. Intermediate between assembly language and modern programming languages. Formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language, or MSIL. See Common Intermediate Language.
Acronym for Common Information Model. The repository in the WMI schema that stores class definitions that model WMI managed resources. See Common Information Model.
Acronym for Center for Internet Security. See Center for Internet Security.
Acronym for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. See Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Acronym for Common Language Infrastructure. An open specification developed by Microsoft that describes executable code and the runtime environment. Allows multiple high level languages on different computer platforms without rewritting code for different architectures. The .NET Framework is an implementation of CLI. See Common Language Infrastructure.
Acronym for Common Language Runtime. A run-time environment provided by the .NET Framework which runs code and provides services that make the development process easier. See Common Language Runtime (CLR).
Acronym for Connection Manager Administration Kit. Software for managing remote connections to the Internet or to private intranet sites and network. See Connection Manager Administration Kit.
Acronym for Configuration Management DataBase. See Configuration management database.
Acronym for Common Name in Active Directory. Also the moniker for objects with a common name in their distinguished names, for example "cn=Jim Smith,ou=West,dc=mydomain,dc=com".
Acronym for Converged Network Adapter, or converged network interface controller (C-NIC). Computer input/output device that combines a host bus adapter (HBA) with a network interface controller (NIC).
Acronym for Cryptography Next Generation. Cryptographic development platform introduced in Windows Server 2008 that implements the United States government's Suite B cryptographic algorithms. See Cryptography Next Generation.
Acronym for Component Object Model. Standard for software components that enables interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in programming languages.
Acronym for Claims Provider. See Claims Providers.
Acronym for Central Processing Unit. See Central processing unit.
Acronym for Call Quality Dashboard. See Call Quality Dashboard for Skype for Business Server 2015.
Acronym for Certificate Revocation List. A list of certificates in a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that have been revoked and should no longer be trusted. See Revocation list.
Also acronym for Claim Rule Language. See The Role of the Claim Rule Language.
Acronym for Customer Relationship Management. See Customer relationship management.
Acronym for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. See Create, read, update and delete.
Acronym for Client Side Extensions. A dynamic-link library (DLL) that implements a group policy on the client computer. See Client-side Processing of Group Policy.
Acronym for Client Side Object Model. Provides client applications access to a subset of the SharePoint Foundation server object model. See Using the Client Object Model.
Acronym for Cloud Solution Provider. See Cloud Solution Provider program for hosting partners.
Also acronym for Cryptographic Service Provider, a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). See Cryptographic Service Providers.
Also acronym for Configuration Service Provider.
Acronym for Certificate Signing Request. In public key infrastructure (PKI) systems, a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority (CA) in order to apply for a digital identity certificate. See Certificate signing request.
Acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. A style sheet language to format a document written in markup language. See Cascading Style Sheets.
Acronym for Comma-Separated Values. A plaintext file of records with fields separated by commas, or some other character. See Comma-separated values.
Also acronym for Cluster Shared Volume. See Use Cluster Shared Volumes in a failover cluster.
Acronym for Common Table Expression. In SQL Server Transact-SQL, a temporary named result set defined within the execution scope of a single SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or CREATE VIEW statement. A CTE is similar to a derived table in that it is not stored as an object and lasts only for the duration of the query. See Using Common Table Expressions.
Acronym for Community Technology Preview (or Customer Technology Preview). Often called the beta release in the software release life cycle. See Beta.
Acronym for Cumulative Update.
Acronym for Choose Your Own Device.
Acronym for Database as a Service. See Database as a Service (DaaS) Solution.
Also acronym for Diagnostics as a Service. See DaaS - Diagnostics as a Service for Azure Web Sites.
Also acronym for Desktop as a Service.
Acronym for Dynamic Access Control. Provides data governance across file servers to control who can access information and to audit who has accessed information. See Dynamic Access Control: Scenario Overview.
Acronym for Discretionary Access Control List. See DACLs and ACEs.
Acronym for Database Availability Group. A high availablity feature of Exchange server. See Database availability groups.
Acronym for Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset. Toolset to troubleshoot and repair Windows desktops. See Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset.
Acronym for Data Analysis Expressions. The native formula and query language for Microsoft PowerPivot and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Tabular models. See Data analysis expressions.
Acronym for DataBase Console Commands. A series of Transact-SQL commands to check the physical and logical consistency of a Microsoft SQL Server database. See DBCC (Transact-SQL).
Also acronym for DataBase Consistency Check, an SQL Server command line utility.
Acronym for Double Byte Character Set. A character encoding in which all characters are encoded in two bytes. See DBCS.
Acronym for the SQL Server DataBase Engine. See Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Database Engine.
Acronym for DataBase Management System. See Database.
Acronym for Domain Controller in Active Directory networks.
Also the moniker for Domain Component, as used in distinguished names (for example "dc=mydomain,dc=com").
Acronym for Data Center as a Service.
Also acronym for Data Consistency as a Service. See DCaaS: Data Consistency as a Service for Managing Data Uncertainty on the Clouds.
Acronym for Data Center Bridging. Enhancements to Ethernet Local Area Networks (LAN's) for use in data centers. See Data Center Bridging (DCB) Overview.
Acronym for Desired Configuration Management. See Overview of Desired Configuration Management.
Acronym for Distributed Component Object Model. Microsoft technology for communication among software components distributed across networked computers. Extends COM. See Distributed Component Object Model.
Acronym for Data Center Transmission Control Protocol. See Data Center Transmission Control Protocol (DCTCP).
Acronym for Data Definition Language.
Also acronym for Data Description Language. Syntax for defining data structures, especially database schemas. See Data definition language.
Acronym for Dynamic Data Masking. See Dynamic Data Masking.
Acronym for Dynamic Domain Name System, or Dynamic DNS. See Dynamic DNS.
Acronym for Distributed Denial of Service attack. See Denial-of-service attack.
Acronym for Data Execution Prevention. A security feature of an operating system to prevent errors and malware exploits. See Data Execution Prevention.
Acronym for Distinguished Encoding Rules . See DER encoding.
Acronym for Data Encryption Standard. A specification for the encryption of electronic data used by Kerberos. Superceded by the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). See Data Encryption Standard.
Acronym for Domain Functional Level. Specifies the versions of Windows Server supported as domain controllers in the domain, and the features of Active directory that are available.
Acronym for Distributed File System. Client and server services that allow servers to organize distributed file shares into a distributed file system. See Distributed File System (Microsoft).
Acronym for Distributed File System Replication. See Distributed File System Replication.
Acronym for Diffie-Hellman. A public key protocol, for securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel. See Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
Acronym for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Service that provides centralized control of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DHCP servers assign dynamic IP addresses and TCP/IP settings to other computers. See DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Basics.
Acronym for Dynamic HyperText Markup Language. See Dynamic HTML.
Acronym for Dynamic HyperText Markup Language eXensions. See DHTMLX.
Acronym for Decentralized IDentifier. See Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.12.
Acronym for Decentralized Identity Foundation. See DIF.
Acronym for Deployment Image Servicing and Management. A command line tool or PowerShell cmdlets to service Windows images. See What is DISM?
Acronym for Directory Information Tree. The Active Directory database file on a Domain Controller is referred to as the DIT. The file name is ntds.dit
Acronym for Do It Yourself.
Acronym for Device Key. See Device Keys.
Acronym for Dynamic Link Library. See Dynamic-link library.
Acronym for Data Loss Prevention. See Data loss prevention.
Acronym for Dynamic Lanuage Runtime. See Dynamic Language Runtime Overview.
Acronym for Direct Memory Access. Allows computer hardware subsystems to access system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU). See Direct memory access.
Acronym for Data Manipulation Language. Syntax used for selecting, inserting, deleting and updating data in a database. See Data manipulation language.
Acronym for Database Migration Service. See What is the Azure Database Migration Service?
Acronym for Dynamic Management Views, a feature of SQL Server. See Use Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to Monitor Analysis Services.
Acronym for DeMilitarized Zone. A perimeter network or subnetwork exposed to an untrusted network, such as the Internet, requiring special protection. See DMZ (computing).
Acronym for Do Not Forward.
Acronym for Domain Name System. The service that resolves computer names into IP addresses. See Domain Name System.
Acronym for DNX Utility.
Acronym for Dot Net Version Manager. See Getting to the CRUX of DNVM, DNU and DNX in ASP.NET 5.
Acronym for Dot Net Execution Environment.
Acronym for Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge. The four phases in typical DHCP operations. See Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
Acronym for Disk Operating System. Several Microsoft operating systems before Windows 95. See DOS.
Also acronym for Denial of Service attack. See Denial-of-service attack.
Acronym for Data Protection API (or Application Pprogramming Iinterface). See How to: Use Data Protection.
Acronym for Data Protection Manager. See Data Protection Manager.
Acronym for Data Quality Services. See Introduction to Data Quality Services.
Acronym for Disaster Recovery.
Acronym for Data Recovery Agent. See Create and verify an Encrypting File System (EFS) Data Recovery Agent (DRA) certificate.
Acronym for Disaster Recovery as a Service. See Microsoft Case Studies.
Acronym for Digital Rights Management. See Digital Rights Management Features.
Acronym for Device Registration Service. See Device Registration Technical Reference.
Acronym for Digital Signature Algorithm. See DSA Class.
Also acronym for Directory System Agent. See Directory System Agent.
Also acronym for Dynamic Site Acceleration. See Dynamic site acceleration via Azure CDN.
Acronym for Desired State Configuration. See Get Started with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration.
Acronym for Directory Services Restore Mode. Used on Domain Controllers to take the instance of Active Directory on that computer offline, possibly for maintenance or troubleshooting. Requires a DSRM password.
Acronym for Distributed Transaction Coordinator. See DTC.
Acronym for Datagram Transport Layer Security. See Datagram Transport Layer Security protocol.
Acronym for Database Throughput Units. See Azure SQL Database and the new Database Throughput Unit.
Acronym for Enterprise 2 (to) Cloud.
Acronym for Enterprise 2 (to) Enterprise.
Also acronym for End 2 (to) End.
Acronym for Exchange Administration Center. See Exchange Admin Center in Exchange 2013.
Acronym for Enterprise Application Integration. Framework of technologies and services that form a middleware to enable integration of systems and applications across the enterprise. See Enterprise application integration.
Acronym for Extensible Authentication Protocol. See About EAP.
Also acronym for Early Adopter Program.
Acronym for Exchange ActiveSync. A client protocol that lets you synchronize a mobile device with an Exchange mailbox. See Exchange ActiveSync.
Acronym for ExaBytes, or 1.1529 x 10^18 bytes (1024 PB). See Exabyte.
Acronym for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Public key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. Required by the United States government's Suite B effort. See Elliptic curve cryptography.
Acronym for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm. See Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm.
Formerly the acronym for the European Computer Manufacturers Association, an international, private, non-profit standards organization. ECMAScript is a scripting language standardized by Ecma International, used for client-side scripting on the web using JavaScript, JScript, or ActionScript.
Acronym for Exchange Control Panel. See Understand and Use the Exchange Control Panel.
Acronym for Encryption Control System.
Acronym for Electronic Data Interchange. A document standard for eCommerce and transmitting documents. See Electronic data interchange.
Acronym for Enterprise Data Protection.
Acronym for Enterprise Digital Rights Management.
Acronym for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.
Acronym for Entity Framework. See Introduction to Entity Framework.
Acronym for Encrypted File System, or Encrypting File System. See The Encrypting File System.
Acronym for Exchange Hosted Archive. See Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) Quick Start Guide.
Acronym for Enhanced Key Usage.
Also acronym for Extended Key Usage. An extension that is a collection of object identifiers (OIDs) that indicate the applications that use the key. See Extended Key Usage.
Acronym for Exchange Management Console. An MMC to manage the configuration of Exchange. See Exchange Management Console.
Acronym for Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. See The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.
Acronym for Enterprise Mobility Management. Technology to manage mobile devices in an organization. See Enterprise mobility management.
Acronym for Enterprise Mobility Suite. See Enterprise Mobility for Every Business and Every Device.
Also acronym for Emergency Management Services. See Boot Parameters to Enable EMS Redirection.
Acronym for End Of Life. When Microsoft software or applications are retired and no longer supported. See The new "End of Life" upgrade notification for Internet Explorer.
Acronym for Exchange Online Protection. See Exchange Online Protection overview.
Also acronym for Elevation Of Privilege.
Acronym for Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.
Acronym for Expected Rule Entries. An object type in FIM.
Acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning. Business Management Software. See Enterprise resource planning.
Acronym for Enhanced Security Administrative Environment. See ESAE Administrative Forest Design Approach.
Acronym for Enterprise Service Bus. Software architecture that implements the interaction and communication between applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Acronym for Expected State Detection. See Understanding Expected State Detection.
Acronym for Extensible Storage Engine. The Jet-based ISAM data storage technology used in Active Directory and Exchange. Also called Jet Blue. Allows data storage and retrieval using indexed and sequential access. See Extensible Storage Engine.
Acronym for Extranet Smart Lockout. See Description of the Extranet Smart Lockout feature in Windows Server 2016.
Acronym for Enterprise Search Platform. See Fast Search & Transfer.
Acronym for Environmental Systems Research Institute. International supplier of Geographic Information System (GIS) software, web GIS, and geodatabase management applications. See Esri.
Acronym for Extended Security Update. A last resort option for customers who need to run certain legacy Microsoft products past the end of support. See Lifecycle FAQ - Extended Security Updates.
Acronym for Extract, Transform, Load. A process in database usage to extract data from an external source, transform it to meet operational needs, then load it into a data store. See Extract, transform, load.
Acronym for Event Tracing for Windows. See Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Simplified.
Acronym for End User License Agreement. A document detailing the terms and conditions the user must consent to before installing or using software. See End-user license agreement.
Acronym for Windows 10 Enterprise for Virtual Desktops. See Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session FAQ.
Acronym for Exchange Web Services. See Exchange Web Services (EWS).
Acronym for Exchange Online. See Exchange Online.
Acronym for Filtered Attribute Set, the subset of Active Directory attributes that are not replicated to Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC's). See RODC Filtered Attribute Set, Credential Caching, and the Authentication Process with an RODC.
Search Server for SharePoint. See Fast Search & Transfer.
Acronym for File Allocation Table. A legacy computer file system, largely used in small capacity USB storage devices and memory cards, supported by all the operating systems. See File Allocation Table.
Acronym for Form Based Authentication. See Form-based authentication.
Acronym for Farm Behavior Level.
Acronym for Fibre Channel, a high-speed technology to connect data storage devices to the network. See Fibre Channel.
Acronym for Framework Class Library. The .NET Framework Class Library.
Acronym for Fibre Channel over Ethernet. See Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
Acronym for Forefront Client Security. See Microsoft Forefront Client Security.
Acronym for Forefront Endpoint Protection. See Forefront Endpoint Protection Client.
Acronym for Forest Functional Level. Specifies the versions of Windows Server supported as domain controllers in the forest, and the features of Active Directory that are available.
Acronym for Fine-Grained Password Policy. An Active Directory feature to specify multiple password policies. Allows application of different password restrictions and account lockout policies to different sets of users within a single domain. See AD DS: Fine-Grained Password Policies.
Acronym for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, a standard for healthcare information exchange. See What is Azure API for FHIR©?
Acronym for Fast IDentity Online. See FIDO Alliance.
Also for FIDO2, see FIDO2 Project.Acronym for Forefront Identity Manager. See Forefront Identity Manager.
Acronym for Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management. See FIM CM Architecture.
Acronym for Federal Information Processing Standards. Standards developed by the United States federal government for computer systems used by non-military government agencies and contractors. Many are modified versions of technical community standards, such as ANSI, ISO, or IEEE.
Acronym for Forefront Online Protection for Exchange. See Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) transition center.
Acronym for Forefront Protection for Exchange, a discontinued product.
Acronym for Forefront Protection Server Management Console. See Forefront Protection Server Management Console.
Acronym for Forefront Protection for SharePoint. See Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.
Acronym for Fully Qualified Domain Name. See Fully qualified domain name.
Acronym for Fast Query Language. See FAST Query Language (FQL) syntax reference.
Acronym for File Replication Service. Service for distributing shared files and Group Policy Objects (GPO's). See File Replication Service.
Acronym for FAST Search Authorization. A security module for FAST Search Server for SharePoint systems. See FAST Search Authorization (FSA) overview.
Acronym for Forefront Security for Exchange. See Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
Acronym for Flexible Single Master Operator. These are roles that are assigned only to designated domain controllers, either one in each domain, or one in the forest. The five FSMO roles are:
Acronym for Foreign Security Principal. Objects that represent security principals from trusted domains external to the forest, and allow the foreign security principals to become members of groups within the domain. See Foreign Security Principals Container.
Acronym for File Transfer Protocol, a standard protocol for transfering files from one network to another (such as the Internet). See File Transfer Protocol.
Acronym for General Availability. Software available for purchase by the public. After the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) stage. See Software release life cycle.
Also acronym for Global Administrator (also known as Company administrator) in Azure Active Directory. See Different administrative role in Azure Active Directory PIM.
Acronym for Global Assembly Cache. See Global Assembly Cache.
Acronym for Global Address List. See Global Address List.
Acronym for Global Address List Synchronization. See Global Address List Synchronization (GalSync) Resources.
Acronym for GigaBytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes (1,024 MB). See Gigabyte.
Acronym for Global Catalog. A read-only catalog of all objects in a forest, which contains a subset of the attributes. The subset of attributes is called the partial attribute set (PAS). A domain controller can be designated a GC.
Acronym for Government Community Cloud. See Office 365 GCC.
Acronym for Google Cloud Platform. See Google Cloud Platform.
Acronym for General Data Protection Regulation, a European Union privacy law. See General Data Protection Regulation.
Acronym for Graphical Identification aNd Authentication (In Windows Vista and above GINA has been replaced by credential providers). See GINA.
Acronym for group Managed Service Account. See Group Managed Service Accounts Overview.
Acronym for Group Policy. See Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding the Group Policy Feature Set.
Acronym for General-Purpose Input/Output. See General-purpose input/output.
Acronym for Group Policy Management Console, the MMC used to manage group policy objects.
Acronym for Group Policy Object. See Group Policy Objects.
Acronym for Group Policy Preferences. See Group Policy Preferences Getting Started Guide.
Acronym for Global System for Mobile Communications. A standard to describe protocols for second generation digital cellular networks used by mobile phones.
Acronym for Graphical User Interface. See Graphical user interface.
Acronym for Globally Unique IDentifier. A 128-bit value that should uniquely identify an object. The value is usually displayed as 32 hexadecimal digits. Every object in Active Directory has an objectGUID attribute, which is the GUID of the object. See Globally unique identifier.
Acronym for High Availability. See High-availability cluster.
Acronym for Hybrid Azure Actives Directory Join. See Tutorial: Configure hybrid Azure Active Directory join for managed domains.
Acronym for Hierarchical Address Book. A feature in Microsoft Exchange 2013 and Outlook. See Hierarchical Address Books.
Acronym for Hardware Abstraction Layer. See Windows NT Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
Acronym for Host Bus Adapter. Connects a host computer system to other network or storage devices. See Host adapter.
Acronym for HyperConverged Infrastructure. See Announcing Azure Stack HCI: A new member of the Azure Stack family.
Acronym for Human Capital Management. See Workday HCM (Preview).
Acronym for Hard Disk Drive. See Hard disk drive.
Acronym for HotFix
Acronym for Host Guardian Service. See Guarded fabric and shielded VMs.
Acronym for Human Interface Device. See HID drivers.
Acronym for Host Named Site Collection. See Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) for SharePoint 2010 Architects.
Acronym for High Performance Computing. See Windows HPC Resource Kit for IT Professionals.
Acronym for High Performance File System. File system for the OS/2 operating system, jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM. Improvement over the FAT file system, superseded by NTFS. See High Performance File System.
Acronym for Hardware Security Module. A physical device that safeguards and manages digital keys. See Hardware Security Module.
Acronym for HyperText Markup Language. Language for creating web pages. See HTML.
Acronym for HyperText Transfer Protocol. An application protocol for information systems and data communication on the World Wide Web. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. The result of layering HTTP on top of SSL/TLS to add security capabilities. See HTTP Secure.
Acronym for Hold Your Own Key. See Azure Information Protection with HYOK (Hold Your Own Key).
Acronym for Infrastructure as a Service. See Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Interfaces supported by ADSI. Exposes methods and properties of namespace objects. See IADs interface.
Acronym for Identity and Access Management. See Identity and Access Management.
Acronym for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. A department of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation, that oversees global IP address allocation. Also root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS) and other Internet Protocol related symbols and numbers.
Acronym for Internet Authentication Server. Provides centralized authentication services in Windows Server operating systems. Replaced by Network Policy Server (NPS) in Windows Server 2008.
Acronym for Independent Computing Architecture. See Independent Computing Architecture.
Acronym for Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names. A nonprofit private organization in the United States that oversees Internet related tasks. Operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
Acronym for Internet Control Message Protocol. See Internet Control Message Protocol.
Acronym for Industrial Control Systems, aka SCADA.Acronym for Information and Communications Technology. See Information and communications technology.
Acronym for IDentity as a Service. See Identity as a Service (IDaaS) -IGA.
Acronym for Identity and Access Management. See Identity and Access Management.
Acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics. See IDE and ATA-1.
Also acronym for Integrated Development Environment. See Integrated development environment.
Acronym for Identity Management.
Acronym for IDentity Management for UNIX. See Installing Identity Management for UNIX.
Acronym for Identity Provider.
Acronym for Internet Explorer. Microsoft's web browser product. See Internet Explorer.
Acronym for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. A professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence that publishes numerous industry standards.
Acronym for Identity Experience Framework.
Acronym for the Internet Engineering Task Force. Develops and promotes Internet standards. See Internet Engineering Task Force.
Acronym for Install From Media, a feature for installing software or enabling features from media. See Installing AD DS from Media.
Acronym for Identity Governance and Administration. See Saviynt Express: Enterprise IGA for Azure, AzureAD.
Acronym for Identity Integration Feature Pack. See Identity Integration Feature Pack SP2 GalSync with Exchange 2007.
Acronym for Industrial IoT (see IoT), typically including ICS and SCADA
Acronym for Internet Information Services. Also sometimes referred to as Internet Information Server. See Internet Information Services (IIS).
Acronym for Identity Lifecycle Manager. See Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 (ILM 2007) Technical Library.
Acronym for Input / Output. Communication between a computer and other systems.
Acronym for Inversion Of Control. See Ioc (Inversion of control).
Acronym for Input/Output Operations Per Second. A performance measurement for devices like disk drives.
Acronym for Internet of Things. The network of physical objects (things) embedded with software, sensors, and connectivity to enable the objects to exchange data with (and be remotely controlled by) the manufacturer, other objects, or the operator. See Internet of Things.
Acronym for Internet Protocol. Networking model and communication protocols for the Internet. See Internet Protocol.
Acronym for Integration Platform as a Service. See Cloud-based integration.
Acronym for IP Address Management. See IP Address Management (IPAM) Overview.
Acronym for Infrastructure Planning and Design guide. Documents providing guidance on design of infrastructure for Microsoft products.
Acronym for Intelligent Platform Management Interface. See Intelligent Platform Management Interface.
Acronym for Internet Printing Protocol. See Internet Printing Protocol.
Acronym for Internet Protocol Security. A protocol suite for securing Internet Protocol (IP) communications. See IPsec.
Acronym for Internet Protocol version 4. The fourth version of the Internet Protocol. The successor protocol is IPv6.
Acronym for Internet Protocol version 6. The latest version of the Internet Protocol. The successor to IPv4.
Acronym for Intelligent Query Processing. SQL Server features that improve performance of existing workloads. See Intelligent query processing in SQL databases.
Acronym for Information Rights Management. See Information rights management.
Acronym for I/O Request Packet. Structures used by Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Windows NT device drivers to communicate with each other and the operating system. See IRP.
Acronym for Internet Security and Acceleration Server. See About Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
Acronym for Indexed Sequential Access Method. A method of indexing data for fast retrieval. The Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) used in Active Directory is an implementation of ISAM. See ISAM.
Acronym for Internet Server Application Programming Interface. See Internet Server Application Programming Interface.
Acronym for Internet Small Computer System Interface. SCSI over IP networks.
Acronym for Integrated Scripting Environment. A graphical host application for Windows PowerShell.
Acronym for internet Storage Name Service. See Internet Storage Name Service.
Acronym for the International Organization for Standardization. See International Organization for Standardization. Also used as acronym for a disc image based on the ISO 9660 standard.
Acronym for InterSite Topology Generator. Automatically creates connection objects in Active Directory between domain controllers to enable replication. See The Role of the Inter-Site Topology Generator in Active Directory Replication.
Acronym for Independent Software Vendor. See Independent software vendor.
Acronym for Information Technology. See Information Technology.
Acronym for International Telecommunications Union. A specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for information and communication technology issues.
Acronym for International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector. One of the three sectors or divisions of ITU. Coordinates standards for telecommunications.
Acronym for Interactive Voice Response. See Microsoft Grammar Tools in IVR Development.
Acronym for Information Worker. Also Knowledge Worker. See Knowledge worker.
Acronym for Integrated Windows Authentication. See Integrated Windows Authentication.
Acronym for Just a Bunch of Disks. An array of drives, each of which can be independently accessed directly. See JBOD.
Acronym for Just Enough Administration. A feature in WMF 5.0 and PowerShell that enables role-based administration through PowerShell remoting. See Just Enough Administration (JEA).
Also acronym for Just Enough Access. See Identity and access management overview.
Acronym for Just In Time.
Acronym for JavaScript Object Model. See JavaScript Object Model.
Acronym for JavaScript Object Notation. A standard format that uses text files to transmit data objects of key:value pairs. An alternative to XML. See JSON.
Acronym for Java Virtual Machine. A virtual machine that can execute Java bytecode. See Java virtual machine.
Acronym for JSON Web Token. See JSON Web Token (JWT).
Acronym for Knowledge Base, as in a Microsoft knowledge base article.
Also acronym for KiloBytes, or 1024 bytes. See Kilobyte.
Acronym for Knowledge Consistency Checker. A process in Active Directory that automatically generates and maintains connection objects that describe which naming contexts should be replicated between which domain controllers and when. See KCC Replication Path Computation.
Acronym for Kerberos Constrained Delegation. See About Kerberos constrained delegation.
Acronym for Key Distribution Center. See Key distribution center.
Also acronym for Kerberos Distribution Center. See Kerberos Authentication Overview.
Acronym for Key Management Service. A Windows service that allows organizations to manage the activation of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Eliminates the need for individual computers to connect to Microsoft for product activation. See Getting Started with KMS (Key Management Service).
Acronym for Keep Me Signed In. See Simplified sign in with multiple accounts and shared PCs.
Acronym for Key Performance Indicator. See Performance indicator.
Acronym for Keyword Query Language. See Keyword Query Language (KQL) syntax reference.
Also acronym for Kusto Query Language. See
Acronym for Key Storage Provider. See Kusto Query Language (KQL) overview.
CNG Key Storage Providers.Acronym for Kernal-based Virtual Machine. Virtualization infrastructure for Linux. See Kernel-based Virtual Machine.
Also acronym for Keyboard Video and Mouse. A hardware device to control multiple computers from one keyboard, video monitor, and mouse. See KVM switch.
Acronym for Link Aggregtation Control Protocol. See Link aggregation.
Acronym for Local Area Network. See Local area network.
Acronym for LAN Manager. A discontinued Network Operating System (NOS) based on the OS/2 operating system. See LAN Manager.
Acronym for Local Administrator Password Solution. See Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Now Available.
Acronym for Latin America region.
Acronym for Location Based Access Control. See Using the location condition in a Conditional Access policy.
Acronym for Load Balancing and Fail Over. Also called NIC teaming. See Overview of NIC Teaming (LBFO) in Windows Server 2012.
Acronym for LoCale Identifier. A 32-bit number where the lower 10 bits are a language code and the upper bits are a culture code. See Locale IDs Assigned by Microsoft.
Acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A language based on the X.500 directory standard that allows clients and servers to communicate. The LDAP provider allows access to the hierarchical structure of Active Directory, or any LDAP compliant database. The LDAP syntax is a filter syntax used to query LDAP compliant databases. See Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Acronym for LDAP over SSL. See LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) Certificate.
Acronym for LDAP Data Interchange Format. A standard plain text data interchange format. Represents directory content as records for update requests. Used by the ldifde command line utility. See LDAP Data Interchange Format.
A graphical user interface (GUI) based LDAP client utility used to search, browse, and update LDAP compliant directories, such as Active Directory. See Ldp.
Acronym for LAN Manager. Originally a network operating system (NOS), but now an authentication protocol and a hash algorithm. See Network security: LAN Manager authentication level.
Acronym for Line Of Business. One or more related products that service a business function.
Acronym for Lines of Code, a software metric used to measure the complexity of a software program. See Source lines of code.
Acronym for Locked Pages In Memory. See Support for Locked Pages on SQL Server Standard Edition (64-bit) systems.
Acronym for Local Security Authority. Windows NT security subsystem. See LSA Authentication.
Acronym for Local Security Authority Subsystem Service. Process that enforces security policy on Microsoft Windows operating systems. See Local Security Authority Subsystem Service.
Acronym for Long Term Servicing Branch. See Difference between LTSB, CB, CBB for Windows 10.
Acronym for Language Understanding Intelligent Service. See Language Understanding (LUIS) Documentation.
Acronym for Logical Unit Number. See Logical unit number.
Acronym for Linked Value Replication. In Active Directory, linked multi-valued attributes only replicate the updated values, rather than all values in the attribute. Requires Windows Server 2003 Interim mode or Windows Server 2003 Forest Functional Level or higher. When a non-linked multi-valued attribute is updated, the entire attribute must be replicated.
Acronym for Management Agent.
Acronym for Media Access Control address (MAC address). A unique identifier assigned to a network interfaces for communications on a network segment.
Acronym for Multiple Activation Key. Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft replaced VLKs with Multiple Activation Keys (MAK) or with Key Management Server (KMS) keys. See MAK & KMS.
Acronym for Mobile Application Management. Software and services for controlling access to internally developed and commercially available mobile applications. See Mobile application management.
Acronym for Microsoft Assessment and Planning. See Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit for Windows 8, Windows 7, and Internet Explorer.
Acronym for Messaging Application Programming Interface. See Messaging Application Programming Interface.
Acronym for Microsoft Active Protections Program. A program run by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) to provide early access to security vulnerability information in advance of monthly updates. See Becoming a Member of MAPP.
Acronym for Microsoft Azure Recovery Services. See Back up a Windows Server or client to Azure using the Resource Manager deployment model.
Acronym for Microsoft AutoUpdate. See Release history for Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU).
Acronym for MegaBytes, or 1,048,576 bytes (1,024 kilobytes). See Megabyte.
Acronym for Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring. See Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring.
Acronym for Microsoft Cloud Application Security. See Microsoft Cloud App Security overview.
Acronym for Microsoft Community Contributor. A Microsoft award to "recognize notable contributions to Microsoft online community forums such as TechNet, MSDN, O365 and Microsoft Community." See Differences Between the MVP and MCC Awards.
Acronym for Microsoft Certified Professional. See Microsoft Certified Professional.
Acronym for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, a Microsoft certification. See Microsoft Certified Professional.
Acronym for Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, a Microsoft certification. See Microsoft Certified Professional.
Acronym for Message Digest version 4. A 128-bit cryptographic hash function. See MD4.
Acronym for Microsoft Data Access Components. Microsoft technologies that allow a comprehensive way of developing applications that access almost any data store. Includes ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). See MDAC.
Acronym for Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Suite. See MDATP Threat & Vulnerability Management now publicly available!
Acronym for Master Data Services. A feature of SQL Server. See Master Data Services.
Acronym for Mobile Device Management. A product for the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. See Mobile device management.
Acronym for Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. See Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.
Acronym for Master Data Services. See Create a Custom Workflow (Master Data Services).
Acronym for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Formerly Microsoft Desktop Deployment. Software that permits network deployment of Windows and Office. See Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.
Acronym for Multidimensional Expressions, a query language for OLAP databases. See MultiDimensional eXpressions.
Acronym for Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. See Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization.
Acronym for Microsoft Endpoint Manager. See Microsoft Endpoint Manager overview.
Acronym for Multi-Factor Authentication. Authentication that requires more than one verification method. Adds a second layer of security to logons. The verification methods can include: a password, biometrics, challenge response question, trusted device characteristics. A related concept is Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA.
Acronym for Microsoft Identity Integration Server. See Microsoft Identity Integration Server.
Acronym for Microsoft Identity Manager. The latest version of Microsoft's Identity and Access management (IAM) product suite. See Microsoft Identity Manager.
Acronym for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An Internet standard for email content. See MIME.
Acronym for Microsoft Information Protection. See Microsoft Information Protection SDK for C++: Public Preview!
Acronym for Microsoft Intelligent Security Association. Group of independent software vendors and managed security service providers with solutions to defend against threats. See Discover the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association.
Acronym for Machine Learning. See Machine learning.
Acronym for Microsoft Management Console. An extensible service for management applications. Provides a user interface allowing addition of snap-ins to manage services in a GUI console.
Acronym for Microsoft Online Email Routing Address. See How the proxyAddresses attribute is populated in Azure AD.
Acronym for Microsoft Operations Framework. See MOF Overview.
Acronym for Microsoft Online NoTes Inspector. For collecting data from Lotus Notes Domino mailbox storage data sets. See Microsoft Online Notes Inspector (MONTI).
Acronym for Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics And Logging. A support toolkit for network diagnostics and collecting system configuration. See Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging Support Toolkit aka MOSDAL.
Acronym for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. See SharePoint 2007 products and technologies.
Acronym for Management Pack.
Acronym for Multi Page Allocator. See What causes Multi-Page allocations?
Acronym for Multipath I/O. Multipathing solutions use redundant physical path components - adapters, cables, and switches - to create logical paths between the server and the storage device. See Multipath I/O.
Acronym for Management Policy Rule. Mechanism for modeling business processing rules for incoming requests to a server running Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2. See Introduction to Management Policy Rules.
Acronym for Mailbox Replication Service. Service on client access servers responsible for moving mailboxes, importing and exporting .pst files, and restoring disabled and soft-deleted mailboxes.
Acronym for Managed Service Account. See Introducing Managed Service Accounts.
Also acronym for MicroSoft Account. Formerly known as a Windows Live ID and Microsoft Passport. See Microsoft account FAQ.
Acronym for MicroSoft Authentication Library.
Acronym for Microsoft Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol. Implementation of SCEP available in Windows Server.
Acronym for Microsoft Developer Network. See Microsoft Developer Network.
Acronym for MicroSoft Diagnostic Toolkit. See Tool: MPSReport replacement, MSDT.
Acronym for MicroSoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator. A transaction manager in Microsoft SQL Server that allows client applications to include different sources of data in one transaction. See MS DTC Service.
Acronym for Microsoft Security Essentials. Free virus protection for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Replaced by Windows Defender in Windows 8.
Acronym for Microsoft Solutions Framework. See Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions Framework.
Acronym for Managed Service Identity. See Managed Service Identity (MSI) for Azure resources.
Also acronym for Microsoft Installer. Extension of a file used by Windows Installer to install, uninstall, or update a Microsoft application. See Windows Installer.
Acronym for Microsoft Intermediate Language (or simply IL). Lowest level human readable programming language, defined by the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). Used by the .NET Framework and produced by .NET compilers. Independent of CPU or higher level languages. Intermediate between assembly language and modern programming languages. Now called Common Intermeditate Language, or CIL. See CIL.
Acronym for MicroSoft Installer eXtension. See What is MSIX?
Acronym for MicroSoft Message Queuing. See Message Queuing (MSMQ).
Acronym for MicroSoft OnLine Directory Services.
Acronym for Microsoft online. Commands in the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell have Msol in their cmdlet name.
Acronym for Managed Services Provider. See Azure Expert Managed Services Provider Program.
Acronym for Microsoft Security Response Center. See Microsoft Security Response Center. Microsoft security experts that identifies and responds to security incidents and vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. See Microsoft Security Response Center.
Acronym for Machine Translation. The use of software to translate text or speech from one language to another. See Machine translation.
Acronym for Microsoft Technology Associate, a Microsoft certification.
Also acronym for Message Transfer Agent, used for Microsoft Exchange communications. See Microsoft Certified Professional.
Acronym for Multilingual User Interface. See Windows MUI Knowledge Center.
Acronym for Model View Controller, three elements of ASP.NET MVC, a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications. Architecture for implementing user interfaces. See Model view controller.
Acronym for Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. A tool that is now retired.
Acronym for Most Valuable Professional. A Microsoft award program to recognize "exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others". See Most Valuable Professional.
Acronym for Model View ViewModel. See Model View ViewModel.
Acronym for Network Access Protection. Operating system components that provide a platform for protected access to private networks. See Network Access Protection.
Acronym for Network Attached Storage. File-level computer data storage connected to a network. Provides data access to a group of clients. See Network-attached storage.
Acronym for Network Address Translation. Method to modify Internet Protocol (IP) datagram packet headers to remap one IP address space to another. See Network address translation.
Acronym for Microsoft Dynamics, formerly Navison. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. See Microsoft Dynamics.
Acronym for NetBIOS over TCP/IP, sometimes also called NetBT. A networking protocol that allows legacy applications that rely on the NetBIOS API to work in TCP/IP networks. See NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Acronym for Naming Context. A partition (namespace) in Active Directory. Examples include the Schema container, Configuration container, the Domain Naming context for each domain, and any application partitions. See Naming Contexts and Directory Partitions.
Acronym for Native Command Queuing. Technology built into SATA hard drives. See Native Command Queuing.
Acronym for Network Connection Status Indicator. See The Network Connection Status Icon.
Acronym for Network Device Enrollment Service. A role service in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). See Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS).
Acronym for Netware Directory Services. Also Novell Directory Services. An X.500 compatible directory service product by Novell. Now called Novell eDirectory. See NetWare.
The .NET Framework is a programming model designed to replace the Win32 and COM APIs. The major components are the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework class libraries See .NET Framework. See .NET Framework.
Acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. Service allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a network. Uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT) protocol. The NetBIOS name of a computer is generally the first 15 characters of the host name, followed by the "$" character. NetBIOS name to IP address resolution is provided by the WINS service on a WINS server.
Acronym for NetBIOS over TCP/IP, also called NBT. A networking protocol that allows legacy applications that rely on the NetBIOS API to work in TCP/IP networks. See NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Acronym for Near Field Communication. A set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them or bringing them into proximity. See Near field communication.
Acronym for Network File System. A distributed file system protocol. See Network File System.
Acronym for Next Generation Credentials. A service running on Windows 10. Provides process isolation for cryptographic keys used to authenticate users. See Hands-on Part 2 - Windows 10 Technical Preview.
Acronym for Network Interface Controller or Network Interface Card. Also called a network adapter or LAN adapter. Hardware that connects a computer to a computer network. See Network interface controller.
Acronym for Network Information Service. A client-server directory service protocol for distributed system configuration data, such as user and host names, between computers on a network. Replaced in many situations by Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or Domain Name System (DNS). See Network Information Service.
Acronym for National Institute of Standards and Technology. Formerly the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Measurement standards laboratory that promotes innovation and industrial competitiveness in the United States by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology. See National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Acronym for Network Location Awareness. See Network Location Awareness Service Provider (NLA).
Acronym for Network Load Balancing. A clustering technology. See Network Load Balancing Technical Overview.
Acronym for Network Operating System. An operating system installed on a server that allows clients to communicate and share resources on the server. See Network operating system.
Acronym for nPartitioning. See NPAR.
Acronym for Network Policy Server. Microsoft's implementation of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS). Originally the Internet Authentication Server (IAS) role service (before Windows Server 2008). See Network Policy Server.
Acronym for Name Service Provider Interface. A service on Global Catalog (GC) servers used for Microsoft Outlook Address Book lookups.
Acronym for Windows NT, a family of Microsoft operating systems. NT originally was the acronym for New Technology. See Windows NT.
Acronym for NT File Replication Service. Service for distributing shared files and Group Policy Objects (GPO's). See File Replication Service.
Acronym for New Technology File System. Microsoft proprietary file system that supersedes the FAT and HPFS file systems. The default file system on Windows operating systems since Windows NT. See NTFS.
Acronym for NT Loader. The boot loader for all versions of Window NT operating systems up to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. See NTLDR.
Acronym for NT LAN Manager. Microsoft protocols for authentication with backward compatibility with LANMAN. See NT LAN Manager.
Acronym for Network Time Protocol. Protocol for time synchronization between computer systems. See Network Time Protocol.
Also acronym for New Tab Page. A feature in the Microsoft Edge browser. Provides access to Microsoft 365 files, sites, and intranet search.
Acronym for Non-Uniform Memory Access. A computer memory design used in multiprocessing. See Non-uniform memory access.
Acronym for Office 365. Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service. See Office 365 Service Descriptions.
Acronym for Outlook Anywhere. See Outlook Anywhere.
Acronym for Offline Address Book. See Offline Address Books.
Acronym for Open standard for Authorization. A service that provides a method for clients to access server resources on behalf of a resource owner. See OAuth.
Acronym for Optical Character Recognition. See Optical character recognition.
Acronym for Office Communications Server. Server software for enterprise instant messaging, VoIP, and conferencing. Now called Microsoft Lync Server. See Microsoft Lync Server.
Acronym for Online Certificate Status Protocol. Internet protocol for obtaining revocation status of X.509 digital certificates. See Online Certificate Status Protocol.
Acronym for OLE Control EXtension. OLE custom controls are usually shipped as a dynamic link library (DLL) with .ocx extension. See Object Linking and Embedding.
Acronym for Open Data Protocol. A data access protocol. See Open Data Protocol.
Acronym for Open DataBase Connectivity. Standard programming API for accessing database management systems (DBMS). See Open Database Connectivity.
Acronym for One Drive For Business. See OneDrive.
Acronym for Original Equipment Manufacturer. See Original equipment manufacturer.
Acronym for Object IDentifier. For example, each attribute in the Active Directory schema has a unique X.500 OID (the value of the attributeID attribute of the attribute). All OID values created by Microsoft begin with 1.2.840.113556. OID values are also used to identify attribute syntaxes and filter matching rules. See Object identifier.
Acronym for OpenID Connect. See OpenID Connect.
Acronym for Open Identity Exchange. See Open Identity Exchange.
Acronym for Online Analytical Processing. See Online analytical processing.
Acronym for Object Linking and Embedding. A Microsoft technology that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. See Object Linking and Embedding.
Acronym for Object Linking and Embedding DataBase. Microsoft API to access data using Component Object Model (COM). See OLE DB.
Acronym for OutLook for MAC. See New Outlook for Mac available to Office 365 customers.
Acronym for On line Transaction Processing. Information systems that facilitate and manage transaction-oriented applications. See Online transaction processing.
Acronym for Office Message Encryption.
Acronym for Oerations Management Suite. A Microsoft cloud based service for IT management. OMS can integrate with System Center components such as System Center Operations Manager. See Operations Management Suite.
Acronym for Out Of Box Experience. See Out-of-box experience.
Acronym for Out Of Memory. State of a computer operation where the program or operating system runs out of memory. See Out of memory.
Acronym for Object Oriented Programming. See Object-oriented programming.
Acronym for Open standard for IDentification. Allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites (relying parties) using a third party service. See OpenID.
Acronym for Open Secure Sockets Layer. Open source implementation of SSL and TLS protocols. See OpenSSL.
Acronym for OEM Preinstallation Kit. See The Difference Between Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) and OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK).
Acronym for Object Relational Mapping. See Object-relational mapping.
Also acronym for Object Role Modeling. See Object-role modeling.
Acronym for Operating System. See Operating system.
Acronym for On-Screen Display. See On-screen display.
Acronym for One Time Password. See Strong Authentication with One-Time Passwords in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Acronym for Organizational Unit. Also the naming attribute for organizational unit objects in Active Directory, and the moniker used in their distinguished names (for example "ou=West,dc=mydomain,dc=com").
Acronym for Outlook Web App. Allows access to Exchange mailbox from a web browser. In Exchange 2003 this was called Outlook Web Access. See Understanding Outlook Web App.
Acronym for Open Web Interface for .NET. A standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications. See OWIN.
Acronym for Platform as a Service. See Platform as a service.
Acronym for Privilege Attribute Certificate. A Kerberos Certificate that contains all security group memberships of the security principal that is requesting access to a resource. See Privilege Attribute Certificate Configuration.
Acronym for Physical Address Extension. A feature of 32-bit processors that allows them to access a physical address space larger than 4 gigabytes. See Physical Address Extension.
Acronym for Privileged Account Management.
Acronym for Partial Attribute Set. The subset of attributes of the objects replicated to the Global Catalog. See Active Directory: Attributes in the Partial Attribute Set.
Acronym for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, or Parallel ATA. See Parallel ATA.
Acronym for Privileged Access Workstation. See Privileged Access Workstations.
Acronym for PetaBytes, or 1.1259 x 10^15 bytes (1,024 TB). See Petabyte.
Acronym for Policy Based Management. See Policy-based management.
Acronym for Personal Computer. A general purpose computer operated by an end-user with no intervening computer operator (as opposed to batch processing or time-sharing computers). See Personal computer.
Acronym for Peripheral Component Interconnect, a local computer bus for attaching devices. See Conventional PCI.
Also acronym for Permission Creep Index. A metric that evaluates the risk associated with unused or excessive permissions. See What's Permissions Management?.
Acronym for Printer Command Language. See Printer Command Language.
Acronym for Password Change Notification Service. Enables synchronization of passwords between Active Directory and other identity systems. See Password Change Notification Service.
Acronym for Private Cloud Simulator. See Private Cloud Simulator for Windows Server 2019.
Acronym for Primary Domain Controller. In NT domains there was one primary domain controller and zero or more backup domain controllers. The concepts no longer apply in Active Directory, which uses a multi-master database system where all domain controllers are essentially equal.
Acronym for PDC emulator or Primary Domain Controller emulator. See PDC Emulator.
Acronym for Portable Document Format. See About Adobe PDF.
Acronym for PowerShell Deployment Toolkit. A set of PowerShell scripts for automatic deployment of System Center 2012 SP1/R2, including all SQL requirements and post-setup integration. See PowerShell Deployment Toolkit.
Acronym for Parallel Data Warehousing. See Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Explained.
Acronym for Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol. See Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol.
Acronym for Premier Field Engineer, or Premier Field Engineering. See Premier Field Engineering (PFE).
Acronym for Pretty Good Privacy, an encryption program. See Pretty Good Privacy.
Acronym for Protected Health Information. See What is Azure API for FHIR©?
A server-side scripting language designed for web development, called HyperText PreProcessor. Originally an acronym for Personal Home Page. See PHP.
Acronym for Password Hash Synchronization. See What is password hash synchronization with Azure AD?
Acronym for Packet IDentifier. Also Product ID or Process ID.
Acronym for Personally Identifiable Information. Any data that can be traced back to a unique individual, or could be used to compromise an individual or organization. Examples include email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, domain names, or IP addresses. See Personally identifiable information.
Acronym for Privileged Identity Management. See PIM for Azure resources (Preview).
Acronym for Personal Identification Number. A secret numeric password used to authenticate a user to a system. See Personal identification number.
Acronym for Picture In Picture. See Picture-in-picture.
Acronym for Personal Identity Verification card. See FIPS 201.
Acronym for Proof Key for Code Exchange. See Proof Key for Code Exchange by OAuth Public Clients.
Acronym for Public Key Cryptography Standards. See PKCS.
Acronym for Public Key Infrastructure. Hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates. See Public key infrastructure.
Acronym for Page Life Expectancy. The number of seconds a memory page will remain in the SQL Server buffer pool without references. See SQL Server Page Life Expectancy.
Acronym for Privilege Management Infrastructure. Manages user authorization based on X.509 attribute certificates (ACs). See Privilege Management Infrastructure.
Acronym for Plug and Play. See Legacy Plug and Play.
Acronym for Proof Of Concept. See Proof of concept.
Acronym for Principle of Least Privilege. See Principle of least privilege.
Acronym for Post Office Protocol. An email protocol. See Post Office Protocol.
Acronym for point-to-Point Protocol. A data link protocol to establish a direct connection between tow nodes in a network. See Point-to-Point Protocol.
Acronym for PowerPoinT. Also the file format used by PowerPoint.
Acronym for Primary Refresh Token.
Acronym for PowerShell Community Extensions. Cmdlets, filters, providers, functions, and scripts contributed by the community. See PowerShell Community Extensions.
Acronym for PowerSHell.
Acronym for Portable Symmetric Key Container. See Frequently asked questions about Azure Multi-Factor Authentication.
Acronym for Password Setting Object. Objects in the System container of Active Directory that implement Fine-Grained Password Policies. See AD DS Fine-Grained Password and Account Lockout Policy Step-by-Step Guide.
Acronym for Problem Steps Recorder. See Windows Problem Steps Recorder (PSR): quick and easy documenting of your steps and procedures.
Acronym for Public Switched Telephone Network. See PSTN gateway deployment options in Lync Server 2013.
Acronym for Pass-Through Authenication. See Pass-Through Authentication.
Acronym for Pass the Hash. A credential replay hacking technique. See Pass the hash.
Acronym for Preboot eXecution Environment. See Preboot Execution Environment.
Acronym for Quality of Experience. See Quality of experience.
Acronym for Quality of Service. See Quality of service.
Acronym for Quick Response Code. A two-dimensional matrix barcode. See QR code.
Acronym for Registration Authority. Verifies user requests for digital certificates and instructs the certificate authority (CA) to issue them. See Public key infrastructure.
Acronym for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. Networking protocol for centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting. See RADIUS.
Acronym for Risk Assessment and Diagnostic Tool.
Acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks), a storage technology using multiple disk drives. See RAID.
Acronym for Random-Access Memory. Computer memory that can be read from or written to in an arbitrary sequence. See Random-access memory.
Acronym for Remote Access Service. Services to connect clients to a host, also called a remote access server. See Remote Access Service.
Acronym for Role Based Access Control. See Role-based access control.
Acronym for Remote BLOB Storage. Optional component of SQL Server that allows storage of binary large objects in commodity storage solutions instead of directly on the main database server. See Remote BLOB Store.
Acronym for Release Candidate. A beta version of software that is ready to be released as the final product (if there are no unexpected problems). The next stage would be Release to Manufacturing (RTM). See Software release life cycle.
Acronym for Remote Desktop. See Remote Desktop Services Overview.
Also the rd command line utility to remove a directory (short for remove directory).
Acronym for Remote Differential Compression. See Remote Differential Compression.
Acronym for Remote Direct Memory Access. Direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving the operating system. See Remote direct memory access.
Acronym for Relative Distinguished Name. The name of an object in Active Directory relative to it's location in the hierarchical structure of Active Directory. The Relative Distinguished Name will be the lowest level component of the Distinguished Name (DN). The RDN must be unique in the parent container or Organizational Unit (OU), while the Distinguished Name will be unique in the forest.
Acronym for Remote Desktop Protocol. See Remote Desktop Protocol.
Acronym for Remote Desktop Services. See Remote Desktop Services.
Acronym for Remote Desktop Session Host. See Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host).
Acronym for Remote Desktop Service Transport Layer Security. See RDSTLS Security.
Acronym for Resilient File System. See Resilient File System Overview.
Acronym for Representational State Transfer. See Representational state transfer.
Acronym for Requests for Comments. Publication of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society. Memorandum describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet connected systems. See Request for Comments.
Acronym for Radio-Frequency IDentification. Wireless radio-frequency transfer of data to automatically identify tags attached to objects. See Radio-frequency identification.
Acronym for Relative IDentifier. All security principals (users, computers, and groups) in Active Directory have a Security ID (SID). SID values include several components, including the RID. The SID without the RID is the same for all objects in a domain. The RID value uniquely identifies the object in the domain.
Acronym for Reduced Instruction Set Computing. A cpu design based on the concept that a simplified instruction set can result in high performance and faster execution. See Reduced instruction set computing.
Acronym for Rights Management Services. See Active Directory Rights Management Services.
Acronym for Read-Only Domain Controller. A domain controller that cannot be used to update objects in Active Directory. See AD DS: Read-Only Domain Controllers.
Acronym for Return On Investment. A measure of the financial impact of investments in hardware and software. See Return on investment.
Acronym for Read Only Memory.
Acronym for Resource Owner Password Credential.
Acronym for Relying Party. See Relying Party.
Acronym for Remote Procedure Call. See Remote procedure call.
Acronym for Relying Party Trust. See Azure AD RPT Claim Rules.
Acronym for Routing and Remote Access Service. See Routing and Remote Access Service.
Acronym for Rivest-Shamir-Adleman, a public key cryptosystem for secure data transmission. See RSA (cryptosystem).
Acronym for Remote Server Administration Tools. See Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Client and Windows Server (dsforum2wiki).
Acronym for Receive Segment Coalescing. A technology to reduce CPU utilization for network processing by offloading tasks from the CPU to an RSC-capable network adapter. See Receive Segment Coalescing (RSC).
Acronym for ReplicateSingleObject. A Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) can request replication of a specific object with functionality known as a Replicate-Single-Object operation. See replicateSingleObject.
Acronym for Resultant Set of Policy. See Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP).
Acronym for Rich Site Summary, or often Really Simple Syndication. Standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information. See RSS.
Acronym for Request for Security Token Response, or RequestSecurityTokenResponse. See RSTR.
Acronym for RunTime, as in Windows RT or WinRT. An edition of Windows only available pre-installed on PCs or tablets powered by ARM processors. Designed for improved battery life on thin, lightweight devices running cloud-enabled, touch-enabled, web-connected applications. Previously called Windows on ARM (WOA). See Windows 8 and 8.1 Preview, Editions (SKUs) and features.
Acronym for Real-Time Communication, software protocols and communication hardware media that support real-time computing. See Real-time communication.
Acronym for Right To Left. Languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are read Right To Left. This is sometimes referred to as the flow direction, either Let To Right (LTR) or Right To Left (RTL). See Right-to-left.
Acronym for Release To Manufacturing. Software ready to be delivered. RTM is followed by General Availability (GA). See Software release life cycle.
Acronym for Recipient Update Service. Used by Exchange to generate and update default and customized address lists, and to process changes made to recipient policies. See Recipient Update Service.
Acronym for Read-Write Domain Controller. A writeable domain controller, meaning it can be used to update objects in Active Directory. All domain controllers are writeable, unless they are a Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC).
Acronym for Reactive Extensions. Library to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable reactive data sequences and LINQ-style query operators. See Reactive extensions.
Acronym for Software as a Service. See Software as a service.
Acronym for System Access Control List. See Access Control Lists.
Acronym for Security Account Manager, the Windows NT account database format. A Windows NT SAM account database exposes a flat namespace. See Security Accounts Manager.
Acronym for Security Assertion Markup Language. An XML based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider and a service or application. See Security Assertion Markup Language.
Acronym for Storage Area Network. Remotely attached computer storage. See Storage area network.
Also acronym for Subject Alternative Name, or subjectAltName. An extension of X.509 that allows more than one value to be associated with a security certificate. Names can include email addresses, IP addresses, URIs, DNS names, directory names (DNs), or OIDs. See SubjectAltName.
Acronym for Serial Attached SCSI ( SCSI). A point-to-point serial protocol to move data to and from computer storage devices. See Serial attached SCSI.
Also acronym for Shared Access Signature. A URI that grants restricted access rights to containers, blobs, queues, and tables. See Delegating Access with a Shared Access Signature.
Acronym for Simple Authentication and Security Layer. A framework for authentication and data security on the Internet. See Simple Authentication and Security Layer.
Acronym for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, or Serial ATA. A computer bus interface to connect host bus adapters to mass storage devices. See Serial ATA.
Acronym for Secure Administration Workstation. See Protecting high-value assets with secure admin workstations.
Acronym for Small Business Server. An easy-to-use server solution designed and priced for small businesses. Now called Windows Server Essentials. See Windows Server Essentials (Small Business Server).
Acronym for Slow Boot, Slow Logon. See Troubleshooting Slow Operating System Boot Times and Slow User Logons (sbsl).
Acronym for System Center.
Acronym for Standard Carrier Alpha Code. A code to uniquely identify transportation companies. See Standard Carrier Alpha Code.
Acronym for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition.
Acronym for Security Content Automation Protocol. See Security Content Automation Protocol.
Acronym for System Center Configuration Manager. See System Center Configuration Manager.
Acronym for Slowly Changing Dimension. See Slowly Changing Dimension Transformation.
Acronym for System Center Data Protection Manager. See Data Protection Manager.
Acronym for System Center Endpoint Protection. See Endpoint Protection.
Also acronym for Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol. See Configure and use SCEP certificates with Intune.
SCIMAcronym for Simple Cloud Identity Management. See Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM).
Acronym for Security Compliance Manager. See Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM).
Also acronym for Source Code Management.
Acronym for System Center Operations Manager. See System Center Operations Manager.
Acronym for System Center Orchestrator. See Getting Started with System Center 2012 - Orchestrator.
Acronym for Service Connection Point object. An object that represents one or more instances of a service and is used to connect to the service. These are objects in Active Directory usually published under the computer object where the corresponding service is installed. Used to maintain information about the service. See Publishing with Service Connection Points.
Acronym for Small Computer System Interface. Standards for transferring data between computers. See SCSI.
Acronym for System Center Service Manager. See System Center Service Manager.
Acronym for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. See System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Acronym for Software-Defined DataCenter. See Windows Server Software-Defined Datacenter.
Acronym for Security Descriptor Definition Language. Defines the string format for security descriptors. See Security Descriptor Definition Language.
Acronym for Software Development Kit. See Software development kit.
Acronym for Security Development Lifecycle. See What is the Security Development Lifecycle ?
Acronym for Software Defined Networking. See SDN in Windows Server overview.
Acronym for Support Diagnostics Platform. See Introduction to Support Diagnostics Platform (SDP).
Acronym for System.DirectoryServices namespace. The primary namespace used for code that targets Active Directory in the .NET Framework. See System.DirectoryServices Namespace.
Acronym for Search Engine Optimization. See Search engine optimization.
Acronym for SharePoint Engineer Troubleshooting Helper. See Diagnostic SharePoint Engineer Troubleshooting Helper (SETH).
Acronym for Skype for Business. See Skype for Business.
Acronym for Secure File Transfer Program. A command line utility to transfer files using SSH File Transfer Protocol. See Secure file transfer program.
Also SSH File Transfer Protocol. A network protocol, designed by IETF, for file access, transfer, and management over a reliable data stream. See SSH File Transfer Protocol.
Acronym for Secure Hash Algorithm, a cryptographic has function that produces a 160-bit hash value known as a message digest. See SHA-1.
Acronym for System Integrator. An individual or business that builds and implements enterprise-wide IT applications for clients by combining hardware and software products. See Systems integrator.
Acronym for Security IDentifier. All objects in Active Directory that are security principals (users, computers, groups) have the objectSID attribute, which is a SID. The SID uniquely identifies the object for security permissions. The SID value includes several components, including a RID (Relative ID). The SID without the RID is the same for all objects in the domain. Each object in an Active Directory domain has its own unique RID value.
Acronym for Security Information and Event Management. See Security information and event management.
Acronym for Singularity Image Format. See Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview.
Acronym for Session Initiation Protocol. See Session Initiation Protocol.
Acronym for Session Key. See Session Keys.
Acronym for Stock-Keeping Unit. Unique identifier for each distinct product and service. See Stock keeping unit.
Acronym for Service Level Agreement. See Service-level agreement.
Acronym for Server Message Block. An application-layer network protocol for providing shared access to files, printers, serial ports, other nodes on a network. Used in Microsoft Windows Networks before Active Directory. See Server Message Block.
Also acronym for Small and Medium sized Businesses. See Small and medium enterprises.
Acronym for Subject Matter Expert. See Subject-matter expert.
Acronym for Social Media Optimization. See Social media optimization.
Acronym for Short Message Service. A text messaging service. See Short Message Service.
Acronym for standalone Managed Service Account. See Group Managed Service Accounts Overview.
Acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Internet standard for electronic mail over IP networks. See Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
Acronym for System Management User Groups. See Systems Management User Groups (SMUG).
Acronym for Server Name Indication. See Server Name Indication.
Acronym for Simple Network Time Protocol. A less complex implementation of NTP. See SNTP.
Acronym for Service Oriented Architecture. Software architecture where discrete pieces of software provide application functionality as services to other applications. See Service-oriented architecture.
Also acronym for Start Of Authority. Records created by Read-Only Domain Controllers for read-only DNS zones.
Acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol. XML messaging framework. See Understanding SOAP.
Acronym for Separation of Concerns. See Separation of concerns.
Also acronym for Security Operations Center. See SOC 1, 2, and 3 Reports.
Also acronym for Service Organization Controls. See Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC-Part 1: Organization.
Also acronym for System on a Chip. See SoCs and custom boards.
Acronym for Scale-out File Services. Scalable, grid-based NAS implementation developed by IBM. See SoFS.
Acronym for Standard Operating Procedure.
Acronym for Service Pack. See Service pack.
Also acronym for Service Principal. See Securing service principals.
Also acronym for SharePoint. See SharePoint.
Acronym for Single Page Allocator. See What causes Multi-Page allocations?.
Also acronym for Single Page Application. See ASP.NET - Single-Page Applications: Build Modern, Responsive Web Apps with ASP.NET.
Acronym for Service Provider Foundation. Provided with System Center 2012 - Orchestrator. Exposes an extensible OData web service that interacts with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). See Service Provider Foundation.
Also acronym for Sender Policy Framework. An email validation system to help detect spoofing and ensure the message was sent from a host authorized by Administrators. See Sender Policy Framework.
Acronym for SharePoint Management Agent.
Acronym for SharePoint Migration Tool. See How to use the SharePoint Migration Tool.
Acronym for Service Principal Name. The name by which a client uniquely identifies an instance of a service. Each instance of a service must have its own SPN, but a given service instance can have multiple SPNs. See Service Principal Names.
Acronym for SharePoint Online. See SharePoint Online.
Acronym for Structured Query Language. See SQL.
Acronym for SQL Server Input Output. A tool developed by Microsoft to to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration of SQL Server. See SQLIO.
Acronym for Single Root I/O Virtualization. An extension to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification, that allows a device to separate access to resouces among PCIe hardware functions. See Overview of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).
Acronym for Software Restriction Policy. See Software Restriction Policies.
Acronym for SQL Server Analysis Services. See Microsoft Analysis Services.
Acronym for Solid State Drive. See Solid-state drive.
Acronym for SQL Server Data Tools. See SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
Acronym for Storage Service Encryption. See Azure Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest.
Also acronym for Shared Signals and Events. A new standard being developed by the OpenID Foundation.
Acronym for Secure SHell. A cryptographic protocol for shell based sessions on remote machines. See Secure Shell.
Acronym for SQL Server Integration Services. See SQL Server Integration Services.
Acronym for Secure Sockets Layer. Cryptographic protocols to provide secure communications over the Internet. See Transport Layer Security.
Acronym for SQL Server Management Studio. See Use SQL Server Management Studio.
Acronym for Single Sign On. A Property of access control of multiple related but independent software systems that allows users to logon once and gain access to all systems without being prompted to logon again. See Single sign-on.
Acronym for Shared Service Provider.
Also acronym for Security Support Provider.
Acronym for Security Support Provider Interface. An API for integrated security services authentication, message integrity, message privacy, and security quality of service. See The Security Support Provider Interface.
Acronym for Self Service Password Reset. Process that allows users to reset their own password, usually by answering a series of questions or responding to an email. See Self-service password reset.
Acronym for SQL Server Reporting Services. See SQL Server Reporting Services.
Acronym for Technical Account Manager.
Acronym for Task-based Aynchronous Pattern. See Task-based asynchronous pattern (TAP).
Also acronym for Temporary Access Pass. See Configure Temporary Access Pass in Azure AD to register Passwordless authentication methods (Preview).
Acronym for TeraBytes, or 1.0995 x 10^12 bytes (1,024 GB). See Terabyte.
Acronym for Total Cost of Ownership. A financial estimate of direct and indirect costs of a product or system. See Total cost of ownership.
Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol. Networking model and communication protocols for the Internet. See Transmission Control Protocol.
Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Networking model and communication protocols for the Internet. See How TCP/IP Works.
Acronym for Tagged Command Queuing. Technology built into ATA and SCSI hard drives. See Tagged Command Queuing.
Acronym for Test Driven Development. See Test-driven development.
Acronym for TCP Fast Open. Optimizes the TCP 3-way handshake process by establishing a secure cookie on the initial connection. See Core Network Stack Features in the Creators Update for Windows 10.
Acronym for Team Foundation Server. See Team Foundation Server.
Acronym for Team Foundation Version Control. See Use Team Foundation Version Control.
Acronym for Ticket Granting Service. See Kerberos (protocol).
Acronym for Ticket Granting Ticket. Encrypted file granting access for a user to data protected by a Key Distribution Center (KDC). Contains session key, expiration date, and user IP Address. See Ticket Granting Ticket.
Acronym for Transport Key.
Acronym for Test Lab Guide. See Test Lab Guides.
Acronym for Transport Layer Security. Cryptographic protocols to provide secure communications over the Internet. See Transport Layer Security.
Acronym for Threat Management Gateway, a discontinued product. See Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
Acronym for Threat Modeling Tool. See TMT.
Acronym for TechNet Wiki. A library of information about Microsoft technologies inspired by Wikipedia, written by the community for the community. See Wiki: About TechNet Wiki.
Acronym for Top Of Form.
Acronym for Time-based One-Time Password. See Time-based One-time Password Algorithm.
Acronym for Terms Of Use. Terms a customer agrees to before they can use a service or product. See Terms of service.
Acronym for Technical Preview. When software is first developed, or new features are added to an existing application, it is first offered to customers as a Technical Preview. This replaces what used to be called beta versions. The TP is generally licensed only for use in a lab enviroment, but customers can test and comment on the TP. The first Technical Preview is called TP1. The second one is called TP2, etc.
Acronym for Trusted Platform Module. An international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor. See Trusted Platform Module.
Acronym for Transact-SQL. Query language for SQL Server. See Transact-SQL.
Acronym for Terminal Services. Known as Remote Desktop Services after Windows Server 2008. See Remote Desktop Services.
Acronym for Time To Live. The length of time during which a setting remains valid or before a timeout expires. See Time to live.
Acronym for Trusted User Domain. See Trusted User Domain.
Acronym for User Account Control. A Windows feature introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that alerts the user about any actions on the client requiring administrator privileges. If the current user's account has administrative privileges on the local computer, they can consent to the action. Otherwise, someone must enter administrator credentials before the action can proceed. See What is User Account Control?
Acronym for Unified Access Gateway. See Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG).
Acronym for USB Attached SCSI. See USB Attached SCSI.
Acronym for Unified Communications Managed API. See What is UCMA 5.0.
Acronym for Unified Communications Web API. See Unified Communications Web API 2.0.
Acronym for User Defined Function. See User-defined function.
Acronym for User Datagram Protocol, a TCP/IP standard. See User Datagram Protocol.
Acronym for Microsoft User Experience Virtualization. See High-Level Architecture for UE-V 1.0.
Acronym for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Specification that defines software interface between an operating system and firmware. Replaces Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface. See Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
Acronym for User Interface. See User interface.
Acronym for Unified Modeling Language or Universal Markup Language. See UML.
Acronym for Universal Naming Convention or Uniform Naming Convention. Syntax to describe the location of a network resource, such as a file or printer. Also called the network path. The UNC syntax for Windows is in the form "file:///ShareName/ResourceName". See Path (computing).
Acronym for User Profile Application. Also User Profile Service Application. A feature of SharePoint Server that stores information about users in a central location. See Overview of the User Profile service application in SharePoint Server 2013 and Create, edit, or delete User Profile service applications in SharePoint Server 2013.
Acronym for User Principal Name, or the userPrincipalName attribute in Active Directory.
Acronym for Uniform Resource Identifier. A string of characters to identify a web resource. See Uniform resource identifier.
Acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. A web address. A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that identifies a web resource and specifies the means to act upon it. See Uniform resource locator.
Acronym for Uniform Resource Name. A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that identifies a resource by name in a namespace. See Uniform resource name.
Acronym for Universal Serial Bus. See USB.
Acronym for User State Migration Tool. See User State Migration Tool.
Acronym for Update Sequence Number. See update sequence number (USN).
Coordinated Universal Time. The acronym is a compromise between the English "Coordinated Universal Time" (or Universal Time Coordinated) and the French "Temps Universel Coordonnè" (or Universel Temps Coordonnè). Formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The time standard by which clocks and time are regulated throughout the world. See Coordinated Universal Time.
Acronym for Up-To-Datedness Vector. See Tracking Updates.
Acronym for Universally Unique IDentifier. A standard for identification in software to enable distributed systems to uniquely identify objects without central coordination. In Microsoft Windows platforms these are knows as GUIDs. See Universally unique identifier.
Acronym for USB Video Class. See USB video device class.
Acronym for Unified Write Filter. A Windows 10 feature to protect drives by redirecting writes to a virtual overlay. See Unified Write Filter (UWF) feature.
Acronym for Universal Windows Platform. See Guide to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.
Acronym for User eXerience. See User experience.
Acronym for Volume Activation Management Tool. See Introduction to VAMT.
Acronym for Value Added Network. See Value-added network.
Acronym for Value-Added Reseller. See Value-added reseller.
Acronym for Virtual Address Space. Virtual addresses that an operating system makes available to a process. See Virtual address space.
Acronym for Visual Basic. See Visual Basic.
Acronym for Visual Basic .NET. A Microsoft high level programming language implemented on the .NET Framework. Successor to the original Visual Basic language. See Visual Basic .NET.
Acronym for Visual Basic for Applications. See Visual Basic for Applications.
Visual Basic Script Edition, a subset of the classic Visual Basic language. Programs written in VBScript are saved in files with the .vbs extension. VBScript programs can be run with either of two host programs, cscript.exe or wscript.exe.
Acronym for Verifiable Credentials. See Verifiable credentials.
Acronym for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. See Desktop virtualization.
Acronym for Virtual Hard Disk, a file format that represents a virtual hard disk drive. See VHD (file format).
Acronym for Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk. See Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk Format Overview.
Acronym for Virtual Local Area Network. See Virtual LAN.
Acronym for Volume License Key. Product key used for installing software licensed in bulk. Allows a single product key to be used for multiple installations. See Volume license key.
Acronym for Volume Licensing Service Center. See License Summary FAQ.
Acronym for Virtual List View. Searching capability allowing display of results without returning every entry. See Virtual List VIew (VLV) and Active Directory - What's it Good For?
Acronym for Virtual Machine. See Virtual machine.
Acronym for Virtual Machine Manager. See System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Acronym for Virtual Machine Queue. A hardware virtualization technology. See VMQ.
Acronym for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. See What are virtual machine scale sets in Azure?
Acronym for Virtual Network Computing. A graphical desktop sharing system. See Virtual Network Computing.
Acronym for Virtual Private Network. Bridges a private network across the Internet (or other public network). See Virtual private network.
Acronym for Virtual Receive Side Scaling. A feature of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2. See Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS) In Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V.
Acronym for Visual Studio. See Microsoft Visual Studio.
Acronym for virtual Smart Card.
Also acronym for Visual Studio Code.
Acronym for Visual Studio Online.
Acronym for Visual SourceSafe. A source code control software application for small software development projects. See Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
Also acronym for Volume Shadow Copy Service. A set of COM interfaces that implements a framework to allow volume backups to be performed while applications on a system continue to write to the volumes. See Volume Shadow Copy Service.
Acronym for Visual Studio Tools for Applications. See Visual Studio Tools for Applications.
Acronym for Visual Studio Tools for Office. See Visual Studio Tools for Office.
Acronym for Visual Studio Team System. See Visual Studio Team System and the Microsoft Solutions Framework.
Acronym for World Wide Web Consortium. The international standards organization for the World Wide Web (WWW or W3). See World Wide Web Consortium.
Acronym for Windows Azure Active Directory. Also known as Azure Active Directory (AAD). Active Directory Domain Services in the Windows Azure cloud. Windows Azure is the Microsoft cloud computing platform, and one of the services available is Active Directory.
Acronym for Windows as a Service. See Overview of Windows as a service.
Acronym for Windows Azure BizTalk Services. See BizTalk Services.
Acronym for Windows Admin Center. See What is Windows Admin Center?
Acronym for Windows App Certification Kit. See Using the Windows App Certification Kit.
Acronym for Web Application Description Language. A machine-readable XML description of HTTP-based web applications (typically REST web services). See Web Application Description Language.
Acronym for Web Application Firewall. See Web application firewall for Azure Application Gateway.
Acronym for Windows Automated Installation Kit. Microsoft tools and technologies to help deploy Windows operating systems. See Windows Automated Installation Kit.
Acronym for Web Access Management. See R&S©Web Application Firewall.
Acronym for Wide Area Network. See Wide area network.
Acronym for Wireless Application Protocol. Standard for accessing information over mobile wireless networks. See Wireless Application Protocol.
Also acronym for Windows Azure Pack (formerly Windows Azure Services for Windows Server). See Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server.
Acronym for Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform, a high speed software rasterizer. See Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) Guide.
Acronym for Windows Automation Snapin for PowerShell. See WASP.
Acronym for Windows Azure Traffic Manager. Tool that allows control of the distribution of user traffic to specified endpoints. See Traffic Mangager Overview.
Acronym for Write Back Cache. A high speed disk or memory cache where the cpu first writes data. Then during idle machine cycles the data can be written from the cache into memory or onto disk. See Cache (computing).
Acronym for Windows CE. See Windows CE.
Acronym for Windows Communication Foundation. See Windows Communication Foundation.
Acronym for Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection. See Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
Acronym for Windows Driver Model. Formerly known as the Win32 Driver Model. Framework for device drivers.
Acronym for Windows Embedded Compact. See Windows Embedded Compact.
Acronym for Windows Event Forwarding. See Use Windows Event Forwarding to help with intrusion detection.
Acronym for Workflow Foundation. See Windows Workflow Foundation.
Acronym for Windows Firewall Advanced Security. See Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security.
Acronym for Windows Filtering Platform. See Windows Filtering Platform.
Acronym for Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. See WHATWG.
Acronym for Windows Hello for Business. See Configure Hybrid Windows Hello for Business: Public Key Infrastructure.
Acronym for Windows Home Server. See Windows Home Server.
Acronym for Windows Image Acquisition. See Windows Image Acquisition (WIA).
Acronym for Windows Internal Database. Used by Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), and Windows System Resource Manager. See Windows Internal Database Overview.
Acronym for Windows Identity Foundation. See Windows Identity Foundation.
Acronym for Windows CE. An operating system for embedded systems. See Windows CE.
Acronym for Windows Preinstallation Environment. Also Windows PE. A lightweight version of Windows used for deployment or troubleshooting. See Windows Preinstallation Environment.
Acronym for Windows Remote Management. Microsoft implementation of WS-Management Protocol, a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based, firewall-friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems from different vendors to interoperate. See Windows Remote Management.
Acronym for Windows RunTime, or Windows RT. An edition of Windows only available pre-installed on PCs or tablets powered by ARM processors. Designed for improved battery life on thin, lightweight devices running cloud-enabled, touch-enabled, web-connected applications. Previously called Windows on ARM (WOA). See Windows 8 and 8.1 Preview, Editions (SKUs) and features.
Acronym for Windows Internet Naming Service, or alternatively, Windows Internet Name Service. Resolves computer NetBIOS names into IP Addresses. See Windows Internet Name Service.
Acronym for Windows Management Framework. See Description of WMF 4.0 for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Also acronym for Windows Metafile. See Windows Metafile.
Acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation. WMI is management technology allowing scripts and programs to monitor and control managed resources throughout the network. Resources include hard drives, file systems, operating system settings, processes, services, shares, registry settings, networking components, event logs, users, and groups. See Windows Management Instrumentation.
Acronym for Windows Media Player. See Windows Media Player.
Acronym for Windows On ARM. Windows pre-installed on an ARM processor. Now called Windows RT (WinRT). See Windows RT.
Acronym for Windows On Windows Systems. An application compatibility layer in 32-bit Windows that provides support for legacy 16-bit (Win16) applications. More recently, WOW64 provides support for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit versions of Windows. See Windows on Windows.
Acronym for Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol, which allows a web browser to automatically detect proxy settings. See Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol.
Acronym for Windows Presentation Foundation. See Windows Presentation Foundation.
Acronym for Windows Performance Toolkit. Tools for the analysis of performance problems. See Windows Performance Toolkit Technical Reference.
Acronym for WMI Query Language, as subset of ANSI Structured Query Language (SQL) used to query WMI namespaces. See WQL.
Acronym for Windows Server. A group of server operating systems from Microsoft. See Windows Server.
Acronym for Windows Server Active Directory. On premises Active Directory, as apposed to the cloud based Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Acronym for Windows Services on Devices. See WSD Scan Discover.
Acronym for Windows Services on Devices Application Programming Interface. See WSDAPI Specification Compliance.
Acronym for Windows Server Essentials. Formerly Windows Small Business Server. See Windows Server Essentials (Small Business Server).
Acronym for Web Services Firewall. See R&S©Web Application Firewall.
Acronym for Web Services-Federation. An identity federation specification. See Understanding WS-Federation.
Acronym for Windows Server Gateway. See Windows Server Gateway.
Acronym for Windows Script Host, an ActiveX scripting host providing an environment for the execution of scripts using one of several scripting engines or languages, such as VBScript.
Acronym for Web Services Interoperability Guidance. Guidance for interoperability between web services using .NET Framework and other technologies.
Acronym for Windows Subsystem for Linux. See Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview.
Acronym for Windows SharePoint Services. See SharePoint.
Acronym for Windows Server Update Services. Software to manage the distribution of Microsoft updates and hotfixes to computers in a corporate environment. See Windows Server Update Services.
Acronym for Windows Update Agent. See Windows Update Agent.
Acronym for Windows Update Utility. See Windows Update Utility (WUU).
Acronym for Windows Virtual Desktop. See Windows Virtual Desktop.
Acronym for Windows Workflow Foundation. Technology that provides an API, an in-process workflow engine, and a rehostable designer to implement long-running processes as workflows within .NET applications. See Windows Workflow Foundation.
It stands for What You See Is What You Get, a category of web page editor that incorporates graphical editing more than through code. See WYSIWYG.
It stands for What You See Is What You Mean. Unlike WYSIWYG, this type of editor relies solely on code for editing. See WYSIWYM.
Computer networking standards for directory services. Developed by ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunications sector), formerly CCITT (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee). See X.500.
An ITU-T cryptography standard for a Public Key Infrastrucure (PKI) and Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI). Includes standards for public key certificates, certificate revocation lists (CRLs), attribute certificates (CAs), and a certificate path validation algorithm. See X.509.
Acronym for Extensible Application Markup Language. Declarative XML-based language used for initializing structured values and objects. See Extensible Application Markup Language.
Acronym for X Forwarded For. HTTP header field for identifying the original IP address of a client connecting to a web server. See X-Forwarded-For.
Acronym for Extensible Markup Language, for encoding documents in a format that can be read by both humans and machines. See XML.
Set of tools based on the .NET Framework for video game development and management. See Microsoft XNA.
Acronym for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. A language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents or other objects. See XSLT.
Acronym for YottaBytes, or 1.2089 x 10^24 bytes (1024 ZB). See Yottabyte.
Acronym for ZettaBytes, or 1.1806 x 10^21 bytes (1,024 EB). See Zettabyte.
Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero Trust means to "never trust, always verify." Every access request is fully authenticated, authorized, and encrypted before granting access. See Embrace proactive security with Zero Trust.
Acronym for Zero-Latency Enterprise. Any strategy that exploits the immediate exchange of information across technical and organizational boundaries to achieve business benefit. For example, technical boundaries exist between different operating systems, database management systems and programming languages. "Immediate" implies being fast enough to bring all of the business benefits that simultaneous knowledge can potentially achieve. Latency cannot literally be zero in any real system because computers need time to process.