Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit 2003
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A fault-tolerant volume with data and parity striped intermittently across three or more physical disks. Parity is a calculated value that is used to reconstruct data after a failure. If a portion of a physical disk fails, Windows recreates the data that was on the failed portion from the remaining data and parity. You can create RAID-5 volumes only on dynamic disks, and you cannot mirror or extend RAID-5 volumes. See also dynamic disk; dynamic volume; fault tolerance; parity; volume.
Fonts that are stored as bitmaps. Raster fonts are designed with a specific size and resolution for a specific printer and cannot be scaled or rotated. If a printer does not support raster fonts, it will not print them. The five raster fonts are Courier, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, Small, and Symbol. Raster fonts are also called bit-mapped fonts. See also font; printer.
A semiconductor circuit that contains information that cannot be modified.
A file system that ensures that if a power outage or other catastrophic system failure occurs, the file system will not be corrupted and disk modifications will not be left incomplete. The structure of the disk volume is restored to a consistent state when the system restarts.
A command-line interface that provides a limited set of administrative commands that are useful for repairing a computer. See also NTFS file system.
A method used to standardize and categorize fault-tolerant disk systems. RAID levels provide various mixes of performance, reliability, and cost. Some servers provide three of the RAID levels: Level 0 (striping), Level 1 (mirroring), and Level 5 (RAID-5).
A database repository for information about a computer's configuration. The registry contains information that Windows continually references during operation, such as: profiles for each user; the programs installed on the computer and the types of documents each can create; property settings for folders and program icons; what hardware exists on the system; and Which ports are being used. The registry is organized hierarchically as a tree and is made up of keys and their subkeys, hives, and entries. See also key; registry size limit (RSL); subkey.
A universal maximum for the space that registry files (hives) can consume in the paged pool. This maximum prevents an application from filling the paged pool with registry data. See also paged pool; registry.
The part of a security ID (SID) that uniquely identifies an account or group within a domain. See also domain; forest; group; security ID (SID).
Part of the integrated Routing and Remote Access service that provides remote networking for telecommuters, mobile workers, and system administrators who monitor and manage servers at multiple branch offices. Users can use Network Connections to dial in to remotely access their networks for services such as file and printer sharing, electronic mail, scheduling, and SQL database access. See also remote access server.
A Windows-based computer running the Routing and Remote Access service and configured to provide remote access. See also remote access.
A tool used to generate a remote installation boot floppy disk. The remote installation boot floppy disk is used to start the process of remote operating system installation for computers which lack a supported Pre-Boot eXecution Environment (PXE)-based remote boot ROM.
A component in Remote Installation Services that is used to create operating system images and to install them on the RIS server.
Software services that allow an administrator to set up new client computers remotely, without having to visit each client. The target clients must support remote booting. See also Single Instance Store (SIS).
A message-passing facility that allows a distributed application to call services that are available on various computers on a network. Used during remote administration of computers.
A service used for managing removable media (such as tapes and discs) and storage devices (libraries). Removable Storage allows applications to access and share the same media resources. See also library.
NTFS file system objects that have a definable attribute containing user-controlled data and are used to extend functionality in the input/output (I/O) subsystem.
A feature that allows users with mobility impairments to adjust the repeat rate or to disable the key-repeat function on the keyboard.
An official document of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that specifies the details for networking protocols, such as those included in the TCP/IP family, and other aspects of computer communication. See also protocol; Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
A file attribute whose value is wholly contained in the file s file record in the master file table (MFT).
DNS client programs used to look up DNS name information. Resolvers can be either a small stub (a limited set of programming routines that provide basic query functionality) or larger programs that provide additional lookup DNS client functions, such as caching. See also caching; caching resolver; Domain Name System (DNS).
Generally, any part of a computer system or network, such as a disk drive, printer, or memory, that can be allotted to a running program or a process.
For Device Manager, any of four system components that control how the devices on a computer work. These four system resources are interrupt request (IRQ) lines, direct memory access (DMA) channels, input/output (I/O) ports, and memory addresses. See also direct memory access (DMA); input/output (I/O) port; node.
The process of making an object visible and accessible to users in a Windows 2000 domain. For example, a shared printer resource is published by creating a reference to the printer object in Active Directory. See also Active Directory.
A standard DNS database structure containing information used to process DNS queries. For example, an address (A) resource record contains an IP address corresponding to a host name. Most of the basic resource record types are defined in RFC 1035, but additional RR types have been defined in other RFCs and approved for use with DNS. See also Domain Name System (DNS); Request for Comments (RFC).
The amount of time required to do work from start to finish. In a client/server environment, this is typically measured on the client side.
The initials of red, green, and blue. Used to describe a color monitor or color value.
A server-based user profile that is downloaded to the local computer when a user logs on and that is updated both locally and on the server when the user logs off. A roaming user profile is available from the server when logging on to a workstation or server computer. When logging on, the user can use the local user profile if it is more current than the copy on the server. See also local user profile; mandatory user profile.
See definition for routing table.
In a Windows environment, hardware that helps LANs and WANs achieve interoperability and connectivity, and can link LANs that have different network topologies (such as Ethernet and Token Ring). Routers match packet headers to a LAN segment and choose the best path for the packet, optimizing network performance. See also local area network (LAN); packet header; routing; Routing Information Protocol over IPX (RIPX); static routes; wide area network (WAN).
The process of forwarding a packet through an internetwork from a source host to a destination host. See also packet.
An industry standard, distance vector routing protocol used in small to medium sized IP and IPX internetworks. See also Internet Protocol (IP); Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX); protocol.
A protocol used by routers to exchange information between routers on an IPX network and by hosts to determine the best router to use when forwarding IPX traffic to a remote IPX network. See also Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX); NWLink; protocol; router.
A database of routes containing information on network IDs, forwarding addresses, and metrics for reachable network segments on an internetwork.
A widely used public/private key algorithm. It is the default cryptographic service provider (CSP) for Windows. It was patented by RSA Data Security, Inc. in 1977. See also cryptographic service provider (CSP).
An IPSec policy mechanism that governs how and when an IPSec policy protects communication. A rule provides the ability to trigger and control secure communication based on the source, destination, and type of IP traffic. Each rule contains a list of IP filters and a collection of security actions that take place upon a match with that filter list.