General Terms Flashcards
AD CS (Acronym)
Active Directory Certificate Services
AD CS
Provides a customizable set of services that allow you to issue and manage public key infrastructure certificates. These certificates can be used in software security systems that employ public key technologies
PKI (Acronym)
Public Key Infrastructure
AD DS (Acronym)
Active Directory Domain Services
AD DS
Includes new features that make deploying domain controllers simpler and that let you implement them faster. It also makes the domain controllers more flexible, both to audit and to authorize for future access to files. It has been designed to make performing administrative tasks easier through consistent graphical and scripted management experiences
AD RMS (Acronym)
Active Directory Rights Management Services
AD RMS
Provides management and development tools that let you work with industry security technologies such as encryption, certificates, and authentication. Using these technologies allows organizations to create reliable information protection solutions
BranchCache
allows data from files and web servers on a wide area network to be cached on computers at a local branch office. It improves application response time while also reducing WAN traffic.
How is Cached data distributed?
Across peer client computers or centrally hosted on a server.
Distributed Cache Mode
Cache distributed across peer client computers
Hosted Cache Mode
Cache centrally hosted on a server
FQDN (Acronym)
Fully Qualified Domain Name
Failover Clustering
Gives an organization the ability to provide high availability and scalablity to networked server. It can include file share storage for server applications such as Hyper V and MS SQL and those that run on physical servers or virtual machines
File Server Resource Manager
A set of tools that allows administrators to manage and control the amount and type of data stored on the organization’s servers. By using this admins have the ability to set up file management tasks, use quota management, get detailed reports, set up a file classification infrastructure and configure file screening management
IPAM (Acronym)
IP Address Management
IPAM
One of the features introduced with Windows Server 2012 R2. It allows an admin to customize and monitor the IP address infrastructure on a corporate network
Kerberos Authentication
Used in 2012 R2 for password-based and public key authentication. This client is installed as a security support provider, and it can be accessed through the Security Support Provider Interface
SSP (Acronym)
Security Support Provider
SSPI (Acronym)
Security Support Provider Interface
gMSAs (Acronym)
Managed Service Accounts
gMSAs
configured domain accounts that allow automatic password management and service principal names management, including the ability to delegate management to other admins
SPN (Acronym)
Service Principal Name
DCB (Acronym)
Data Center Bridge
Networking technologies in 2012 R2
BranchCache, Data Center Bridging, NIC Teaming, etc
Security Auditing
Gives an organization the ability to help maintain the security of an enterprise. By using this you can verify authorized or unauthorized access to machines, resources, applications, and services. Verifies regulatory compliance
Smart Cards (AKA)
Two-factor authentication
Smart Cards
Security device. Requires the user HAS the card and KNOWs the PIN
Schannel
Security support provider that uses the SSL and TLS Internet standard authentication protocols together
WDS (Acronym)
Windows Deployment Services
WDS
allows an admin to install Windows remotely using network-based installation
