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A security system that authenticates users. Kerberos doesn’t provide authorization to services or databases; it establishes identity at logon, which is used throughout the session. The Kerberos protocol is the primary authentication mechanism in the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 operating systems.- Browse Related Terms: Authentication, Authentication protocol, authorization, certificate, Certificate Services, Directory Services Markup Language (DSML), Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), Kerberos, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Service Principal Name (SPN), Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
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A built-in service that runs on all domain controllers and automatically establishes connections between individual machines in the same site. These are known as Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Directory Service connection objects. An administrator may establish additional connection objects or remove connection objects. At any point, however, where replication within a site becomes impossible or has a single point of failure, the KCC will step in and establish as many new connection objects as necessary to resume Active Directory replication.- Browse Related Terms: backup domain controller (BDC), Domain Controller, Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC), Mixed mode, native mode, Replication, Schema cache, Site, Site Link, Site topology