Microsoft Email terms starting with F

24 terms

failover A cluster's ability to redirect requests from one server to another. Failover occurs when a user tries to access an application on an unavailable server…
fallback action The action that an Exchange Server 2007 transport rule takes if a disclaimer cannot be applied to an e-mail message as, for example, when a message is…
false positive test result that states that an analyte is present, when, in fact, it is not present or, is present in an amount less than a threshold or designated…
fan out The process of splitting a message to deliver e-mail messages to individual recipients. [Exchange 2007]
fan-out thread A thread that creates multiple message copies and places them in the appropriate link queues.
Fault-Tolerance The ability of a processor to maintain mission effectiveness after some subsystems failed.
file share witness A new type of Majority Node Set (MNS) quorum in Windows Server 2003. In Exchange Server 2007, cluster continuous replication (CCR) uses the MNS quorum…
Financial Institution Privacy Protection Act of 2001 Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide enhanced protection of nonpublic personal information. [Exchange 2007]
Financial Institution Privacy Protection Act of 2003 Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide enhanced protection of nonpublic personal information. [Exchange 2007]
Firewall A set of related programs that protect the resources of a private network from users from other networks.
folder tree A hierarchical display of folder organization.
Foreign connector An Exchange Server 2007 connector that uses a Drop directory on a Hub Transport server to send messages to a local messaging server that doesn't use the…
foreign gateway connection handler In Exchange Server 2007, a component of the Microsoft Exchange Transport service that manages delivery of messages to Drop directories that are configured…
foreign system A messaging system other than Exchange. [Exchange 5.5]
Forest Terrestrial ecosystem (biome) with enough average annual precipitation (at least 76 centimeters or 30 inches) to support growth of various species of…
ForestPrep A tool that is used during deployment to extend the Active Directory schema to include Exchange-specific classes and attributes.
form The mass or shape of an object or objects that appears unified, such as a vegetative opening in a forest, a cliff formation, or a water tank.
forms-based authentication Forms-based authentication provides a Web logon screen for users to authenticate to gain access to their mailboxes when using Microsoft Outlook Web Access.
FQDN (fully qualified domain name) A Domain Name System (DNS) that has been stated unambiguously to indicate with certainty its location in the domain namespace tree.
free/busy status The availability of a person. In addition to free and busy, the status can also be out-of-office (OOF) or tentative. [Exchange 2003]
Front-end/back-end An Exchange 2000 configuration in which clients access a bank of protocol servers (the front-end) for collaboration information, and these in turn…
front-end/back-end architecture An Exchange configuration where clients access a bank of protocol servers (the front-end) for collaboration information, and then these servers…
FRS (File Replication Service) A multimaster replication service that is used replicate files and folders between servers. [Exchange 2007]
full mesh topology A network architecture in which each network segment can reach any other network segment directly through a point-to-point physical or logical connection.