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Active Directory

The Windows directory service that enables administrators to create and manage users and groups, set network-wide user and computer policies, manage security, and organized network resources.

Domain Controller

A Windows server that has Active Directory installed and is responsible for allowing client computers access to domain resources.

Network Client

The part of the OS that sends requests to a server to access network resources.

Network Protocol

Software that specifies the rules and format of communication between devices on a network.

Network Server Software

The part of the OS that receives requests for shared network resources and makes those resources available to a network client.

Root Domain Controller

The first domain controller installed in an Active Directory Forest.

Server Core

A Windows Server 2012/R2 installation option that doesn't have a traditional GUI interface.

Server Feature

Components you can install that provide functions to enhance or support an installed role or add a stand-alone feature.

Server Operating Systems

OSs designed to emphasize network access performance and run background processes as opposed to desktop applications.

Virtual Machine (VM)

A software environment that simulates the computer hardware an OS requires for installation. A virtual machine creates in software all the hardware you find on a computer, including BIOS, disk controllers, hard drives, CD/DVD drives, serial ports, USB ports, RAM, network interface, video cards, and ecen processors.

Windows Domain

A group of Windows computers that share common management and sre subject to rules and policies that an administrator defines.

Windows Workgroup

Also called peer-to-peer network, it is a small collection if Windows computers whose users typically have something in common, such as the need to share files or printers with each other. No computer has authority or control over another. Logons, security, and resource sharing are decentralized.

Echo Reply

An ICMP message that's the response when a computer receives an Echo Request, generated by the ping program.

Echo Request

An ICMP message generated by the Ping program used to test network connectivity and IP cinfiguration. If a computer receives this, it responds with an Echo Reply.

Host computer

The physical computer on which virtualization software is installed and virtual machines run.

Features on Demand

A new feature in Windows Server 2012/R2 that enables you to remove the files used to install roles and features and free up the disk space these files normally consume.

Ping

A utility used to test network connectivity and IP address configuration.

NIC Teaming

A feature that allows multiple interfaces to work in tandem to increase available bandwidth and provide load balancing and fault tolerance.

Service

A task or process that runs in the background.

Downlevel Server

A server running an earlier version of Windows Server OS; usually in the context of managing that server remotely.

Load Balancing

Distributing traffic between two or more interfaces, thus increasing the overall network throughput a server is capable of maintaining.

Windows Remote Management (WinRM)

A Windows 2012 feature that provides a command-line interface for performinga variety of remote management tasks.

Service Pack

A collection of bug fixes, security updates, and new features that can be installed on an OS to bring it up to date.

Hot-add

A high-end feature that allows adding hardware (usually memory, processors, or disk drives) in a system while its running.

Member Server

A Windows server that's in the management scope of a Windows domain but doesn't have Active Directory installed.