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universal group

A security or distribution group that can contain users, groups, and computers from any domain in its forest as members.

Universal security groups can be granted rights and permissions on resources in any domain in the forest.

See also domain.

See also forest.

user account

In Active Directory, an object that consists of all the information that defines a domain user, which includes user name, password, and groups in which the user account has membership. User accounts can be stored in either Active Directory or on your local computer.

For computers running Windows XP Professional and member servers running Windows Server 2003, use Local Users and Groups to manage local user accounts. For domain controllers running Windows Server 2003, use Active Directory Users and Computers to manage domain user accounts.

See also Active Directory.

See also group.

user class

An administrative feature that allows DHCP clients to be grouped logically according to a shared or common need. For example, a user class can be defined and used to allow similar DHCP leased configuration for all client computers in a specific building or site location.

See also Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

See also lease.

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

A transport layer protocol that offers a connectionless datagram service that guarantees neither delivery nor correct sequencing of delivered packets (much like Internet Protocol (IP)), but provides a payload checksum and upper layer protocol identification that uses source and destination ports.

See also Internet Protocol (IP).

See also packet.

See also Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

user principal name (UPN)

A user account name (sometimes referred to as the user logon name) and a domain name identifying the domain in which the user account is located. This is the standard usage for logging on to a Windows domain. The format is as follows: someone@example.com (as for an e-mail address).

See also domain.

See also domain name.




Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit(c) Deploying Network Services 2003
Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit(c) Deploying Network Services 2003
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