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Well connected

Sufficiently fast and reliable for the needs of Active Directory clients and servers. The definition of “sufficiently fast and reliable” for a particular network depends on the work being done on the specific network.

Wide area network (WAN)

Any Internet or network that covers an area larger than a single building or campus.

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)

A name resolution service that converts computer names to IP addresses in a routed environment.

Windows Sockets (Winsock)

Winsock is a standard way for Windows-based programs to work with TCP/IP. You can use Winsock if you use SLIP to connect to the Internet.

Workstation

In Windows NT, a computer running the Windows NT Workstation operating system. In a wider context, used to describe any powerful computer optimized for graphics or computer-aided design (CAD) or any of a number of other functions requiring high performance.

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