Microsoft Active Directory terms starting with S

31 terms

SASL See definition for: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
Schema A set of rules or conceptual model for data structure and content, such as a description of the data content and relationships in a database.
Schema cache An in-memory copy of the schema on the domain controller. To improve performance on schema operations (such as new object validation), each domain…
Schema Master The domain controller assigned to control all updates to the schema within a forest. At any time, there can be only one schema master in the forest.
Schema partition The schema directory partition holds the definitions for the type of data that can be held by the directory store.
Scope of Active Directory The naming boundary for a given forest.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) A protocol that provides secure data communication through data encryption. This protocol enables authentication, integrity, and data privacy over…
security context The security attributes or rules that are currently in effect. For example, the rules that govern what a user can do to a protected object are determined…
Security descriptor A data structure that contains security information associated with a protected object.
Security Groups Groups that can be used to organize users and domain objects, thus simplifying administration.
Security Identifier (SID) In Windows-based systems, a unique value that identifies a user, group, or computer account within an enterprise.
Security package The software implementation of a security protocol. Security packages are contained in security support provider dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) or in…
Security policies Global domain security rules.
Security principal In Windows-based systems, a user, group, or computer that is automatically assigned a security identifier (SID) to control access to resources.
Security protocol A specification that defines security-related data objects and rules about how the objects are used to maintain security on a computer system.
Security Support Provider (SSP) A dynamic-link library (DLL) that implements the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) by making one or more security packages available to…
Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) A common interface between transport-level applications, such as Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and security support providers (SSPs), such as…
Security Template A physical file representation of a security configuration that can be applied to a local computer or imported to a Group Policy object in Active…
service account A Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 user account that is used to run some Exchange services. [Exchange 2003]
Service Principal Name (SPN) A way of referring to a service principal. SPN structures generally follow Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) naming conventions, and they often…
SGCD Single Global Child Domain
SID See definition for: security ID (SID)
Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) An open framework, described in Request for Comments (RFC) 2222, for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
Single-master operations Active Directory operations that are single-master, that is, not permitted to occur at different places in the network at the same time.
Site In archeology, any location of past human activity.
Site Link An object in Active Directory that contains information about the link between two Active Directory sites.
Site topology Determines how each of the database containers will be linked to the others for replication purposes.
SSL See definition for: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
SSP Shortened Statutory Period -- see MPEP §710.02(b) for more
SSPI See definition for: Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)
Synchronization For data streams, the process whereby a received set of data is placed in one to one correspondence with the data assumed to have been transmitted.