Microsoft Exchange 2000

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Microsoft Exchange 2000 terms

  1. ADC (Active Directory Connector) The service that replicates information between the Exchange Server 5.5 directory and Active Directory.
  2. Administration group A collection of servers running Exchange 2000 that can be administered as a single unit.
  3. ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) A programming layer built on top of OLE DB that allows high-level programming languages such as Visual Basic and VBScript to access an underlying data…
  4. bridgehead server A nominated server that acts as a message transfer point between Exchange 2000 routing groups.
  5. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) An Application Programming Interface that is a superset of CDO for Windows 2000.
  6. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) for Windows 2000 CDO for Windows 2000 is defined in the Windows 2000 section earlier in this document. [Exchange 2000]
  7. CDO for Exchange 2000 CDO for Exchange 2000 is included with Exchange 2000 and its services are supplied from the CDOEX.DLL file. [Exchange 2000]
  8. CDO for System Management (fka Exchange Management Objects - EMO) An API that allows administrators to programmatically access management information on an Exchange 2000 server, including databases and mailboxes.
  9. CMS (Conferencing Management Service) The network service that coordinates the booking of virtual resources for online meetings in the Exchange Conference Service.
  10. Collaboration Data Objects 1.21 - CDO 1.21 (aka Active Messaging and OLE Messaging) An application programming interface (API) that allows users and applications to access data objects within a server running Exchange.
  11. ConfigCA (Configuration Connection Agreement) A special Connection Agreement implemented as part of the Active Directory Connector that replicates configuration naming context data from downlevel…
  12. Connection Agreement The configuration of information to replicate using the Active Directory Connector.
  13. CTP (Conference Technology Provider) A provider of data conferencing services such as real-time video, audio, and telephony integration. [Exchange 2000]
  14. DAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning) (aka HTTP-DAV and Web-DAV) An extension to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 (HTTP/1.1) that allows for the manipulation (reading and writing) of objects and attributes on a Web…
  15. DSAccess The Exchange 2000 component that provides directory lookup services for components such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Message Transfer Agent…
  16. DSProxy The Exchange 2000 component that can proxy (and refer) Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) directory service requests from Outlook clients…
  17. ECS (Exchange Conferencing Services) A service that allows users to meet in virtual rooms on a server running Exchange.
  18. ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) (fka JET) Formerly known as Joint Engine Technologies (JET), the ESE is a method that defines a very low-level Application Programming Interface (API) to the…
  19. Event Service A Windows NT service that is installed by Exchange Server 5.5. This service allows programmers to write programs that use Exchange's Event Handler to…
  20. Event sink A piece of code that is activated by a defined trigger, such as the reception of a new message.
  21. EVS (Exchange Virtual Server) When clustering, you allocate different resources (such as storage groups) to an EVS.
  22. EXIPC (fka Epoxy) A queuing layer that allows the Internet Information Server (IIS) and store processes (Inetinfo.exe and Store.
  23. 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…
  24. Hosted organization (aka virtual server, virtual machine, virtual organization) A collection of Exchange services including, but not limited to virtual servers (that is, instances of IMAP4, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, HTTP, RVP), storage space…
  25. IM (Instant Messaging) The Exchange 2000 service that allows for real-time messaging and collaboration between users.
  26. IMAP4 (Internet Messaging Access Protocol version 4) A standard-based protocol for accessing mailbox information. IMAP4 is considered to be more advanced than POP3 because it supports basic online…
  27. IMPP (Instant Messaging Presence Protocol) The standards-based protocol clients use to interact with an Instant Messaging server.
  28. JET (Joint Engine Technology) Defines the low-level access to underlying database structures in Exchange Server 4.0 and 5.0.
  29. LSA (Link State Algorithm) The algorithm used to propagate routing status information between servers running Exchange 2000.
  30. MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) The API that is used by Microsoft messaging applications such as Outlook to access collaboration data.
  31. MBR (Mail-based replication) A mechanism to replicate directory information through a messaging transport. This term applies to Exchange 5.
  32. MCU (Multipoint Control Unit) A reference to the T.120 protocol that allows clients to connect to data conferencing sessions.
  33. MDB (message database) An instance of a database implemented in Exchange server. A single MDB is normally identified as being public or private depending on the type of data…
  34. Metabase A store that contains metadata such as that used by Internet Information Server IIS to obtain its configuration data.
  35. Metabase update service A component in Exchange 2000 that reads data from Active Directory and transposes it into the local IIS metabase.
  36. metadata Metadata is information about a particular data set which may describe, for example, how, when, and by whom it was received, created, accessed, and/or…
  37. Mixed-vintage site (also known as "PtOz") An Exchange 5.x site that also contains servers running Exchange 2000. [Exchange 2000]
  38. MTA (message transfer agent) The component in all versions of Exchange Server that transfers messages between servers using the X.400 protocol. [Exchange 2000]
  39. NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) Protocol that supports reading newsgroups, posting new articles, and transferring articles between news servers.
  40. NSPI (Name Service Provider Interface) Part of the DSProxy process that can accept Outlook client directory requests and pass them to an address book provider. [Exchange 2000]
  41. OLE DB See definition for: Object Linking and Embedding Data Base
  42. Outlook Web Access The Web browser interface to Exchange Server mailbox and public folder data. The Outlook Web Access client in Exchange Server 5.
  43. PFCA (Public folder connection agreement) A connection agreement in the Active Directory Connector (ADC) that is responsible for replicating Public Folder proxy objects between the Exchange 5.
  44. Policy The contract form issued by the company to explain the coverage provided. It is a legal document.
  45. POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) A mail protocol that allows clients running it to retrieve mail from a host mail server also running the protocol. You can enable POP3 on a Domino server.
  46. Protocol farm A collection of virtual servers that are used as the primary connection point for users in an organization.
  47. Public folder tree (aka public folder root and top level hierarchy - TLH) A collection of public folders created under the same hierarchical namespace. Previous releases of Exchange server used only a single tree (called: All…
  48. resource Data, metadata, a collection of data, or a collection of metadata accessed as a content item. Examples: a document, a database table, a content class.
  49. Resource mailbox A mailbox that is associated with a resource instead of a user (such as a conference room for reservation purposes). In Exchange 5.
  50. RGC (Routing Group Connector) A connector in Exchange 2000 that connects routing groups to one another. An RGC is uni-directional and can have separate configuration properties (such…
  51. Routing Engine This COM component runs on the Event Service on Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5.
  52. routing group A collection of Servers running Exchange 2000 that can transfer messaging data to one another in a single-hop without going through a bridgehead.
  53. Routing Objects Component Object Model (COM) objects that are used to program Exchange's routing engine behavior.
  54. Routing service A component in Exchange 2000 that builds link state information. [Exchange 2000]
  55. RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) A reliable synchronous protocol that transfers data between clients and servers, and between servers.
  56. RUS (Recipient Update Service) This is part of the Exchange System Attendant and is responsible for keeping Address Lists up-to-date and creating proxy addresses for users.
  57. RVP (Rendezvous Protocol) (Note that this name is preliminary). The Microsoft published protocol that is used between the MSN Messenger service and the Instant Messaging server…
  58. SCC (Site Consistency Checker) (aka SKCC) The updated version of the Exchange Server 5.5 Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) that works in conjunction with (and is part of) the Exchange Site…
  59. 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.
  60. Scripting Agent Exchange Server Scripting Agent lets you use server-side scripts that run as a result of events occurring in Exchange folders.
  61. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The protocol widely implemented on the Internet for exchanging email messages.
  62. SRS (Site Replication Service) A directory service (similar to the directory used in Exchange Server 5.5) implemented in Exchange 2000 to allow the integration with downstream Exchange…
  63. Storage group A collection of Exchange databases on a server running Exchange 2000 that share the same Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) instance and transaction log.
  64. Store The generic name given to the storage subsystem on a server running Exchange. This term is used interchangeably to describe the Store.
  65. system attendant One of the core Exchange 2000 services that performs miscellaneous functions (usually related to directory information) such as generation of address…
  66. T.120 A standards-based protocol used with Exchange Data Conferencing. Clients such as Microsoft NetMeeting are T.120 compatible. [Exchange 2000]
  67. Virtual root A shortcut pointer to a physical storage location. Virtual roots are normally defined to allow users and applications to connect with a short "friendly"…
  68. Virtual Server A virtual computer that resides on an HTTP server but appears to the user as a separate HTTP server.
  69. Web Storage System A storage platform that provides a single repository for managing multiple types of unstructured information in one infrastructure.

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