Microsoft Active Directory terms starting with C

10 terms

  1. certificate Digital signature combining data verification and encryption key. See PKI Digital Signature.
  2. Certificate Services A software service that issues certificates for a particular certification authority (CA).
  3. Child Object An object that resides in another object. A child object implies relation. For example, a file is a child object that resides in a folder, which is the…
  4. Classes Component defining object types within Active Directory.
  5. Computers A directory object such as a University owned CPU that an OU administrator supports.
  6. Configuration partition (in Active Directory) The configuration directory partition holds information about an entire Active Directory forest, including replication scheduling and site-related…
  7. Configuration partition (in ADAM) The configuration directory partition holds information about ADAM replication scheduling and replica sets, information that defines the other partitions…
  8. Configuration set A set of AD LDS instances that share and replicate their configuration and schema partitions and can also be configured to share and replicate application…
  9. Container In the Exchange Administrator program, an object that contains other objects. For example, the Recipients container is composed of recipient objects.
  10. csvde A command-line tool for importing and exporting directory contents, such as schema definitions and directory objects, that are stored as comma-separated…