In Windows Installer, a relational database that contains information about components, features, and Setup properties. A transform is based on a particular package and contains the modifications to apply to that package during installation. You use the Custom Installation Wizard to create transforms for Office.
Uses more than one computer on a regular basis, often a portable computer the user takes to different locations. Traveling users might have different language requirements or need access to different configurations of the same application (local or remote). See also roaming user.
Universal character set designed to accommodate all known scripts. Unlike most code pages, Unicode uses a unique two-byte encoding for every character, also known as double byte character set (DBCS). Unicode is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc.
Uniform Resource Locator. An address that specifies a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) and a location of an object, document, World Wide Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet. Example: http://www.microsoft.com/.
Setting that determines formats and sort orders for date, time, currency, and so on. Also known as regional settings. See also input locale.
A subset of the Visual Basic for Applications programming language optimized for Web-related programming. As with JavaScript, code for VBScript is embedded in HTML documents.
The Internet standard for creating and sharing virtual business cards.
A virtual computer that resides on an HTTP server but appears to the user as a separate HTTP server. Several virtual servers can reside on one computer, each capable of running its own programs and each with individualized access to input and peripheral devices. Each virtual server has its own domain name and IP address and appears to the user as an individual Web site or FTP site.
In Microsoft Excel, a query that retrieves data stored on your intranet or the Internet.
A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with http://.
An application shortcut that supports Windows Installer install-on-demand functionality. On Windows NT 4.0, requires the Windows Desktop Update. See also advertise, assign, publish.