Microsoft Windows terms starting with G

25 terms

  1. GC See definition for: Global Catalog (GC)
  2. GCPD Global Child Production Domain
  3. Generic Accounts Named according to function rather than individual. Use for 3 activities: Testing, Development, Training.
  4. Generic Application A resource type in a failover cluster or server cluster that supports an application that was not originally designed to run on a cluster.
  5. Generic Script A resource type in a failover cluster or server cluster that supports an application controlled by a script that runs in Windows Script Host.
  6. Generic Service A resource type in a failover cluster or server cluster that supports a service that was not originally designed to run on a cluster.
  7. Global Catalog A directory database that applications and clients can query to locate any object in a forest.
  8. Global Catalog (GC) The global catalog contains a partial replica of every Windows 2000 /Windows 2003 domain in the directory.
  9. Global Catalog Server A Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 domain controller that holds a copy of the global catalog for the forest.
  10. global system key A tool used to configure the startup key, a random, 128-bit, symmetric cryptographic key created at system startup and used to encrypt all of the user`s…
  11. globally unique identifier A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number.
  12. Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number.
  13. GPO Government Printing Office (US).
  14. group (also referred to as a Technology Center or TC) - a unit of several Group Art Units in the mechanical, electrical, chemical or design area, managed by one…
  15. Group memberships The groups to which a user account belongs. Permissions and rights granted to a group are also provided to its members.
  16. Group Policy An administrative tool for managing user settings and computer settings across a network.
  17. Group Policy client-side extension A component responsible for implementing a specific portion of Group Policy on the client computer.
  18. Group Policy container An object that is stored in Active Directory Domain Services and that is associated with a given Group Policy object.
  19. Group Policy Management Editor The name of the window for the editor snap-in that accompanies the Group Policy Management Console.
  20. Group Policy Object A collection of Group Policy settings, stored at the domain level as a virtual object that consists of a Group Policy container and a Group Policy…
  21. Group Policy object (GPO) A logical concept that is used to represent a single collective set of computer and/or user policies.
  22. Group Policy Object Editor The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is used to edit Local Group Policy settings.
  23. Group Policy Software Installation An extension to the editor that accompanies the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
  24. Group Policy template A collection of files that contains Group Policy information and that is stored on the SYSVOL share.
  25. GUID A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number.