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Acronym Definition
ABF Automated Build Framework
AD Active Directory – for more information click on the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory
ADMT Active Directory Migration Tool – for more information see the following:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=788975b1-5849-
4707-9817-8c9773c25c6c&DisplayLang=en
AMD Advanced Micro Devices see the following for more info:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/
AMER The Americas
APAC Asia Pacific Area
APC American Power Conversion Universal Power Supply (UPS). The following article
describes pin-outs for Windows NT:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;98885
ASP Active Server Page
BIG-IP BIG-IP from F5 Networks is a high availability, intelligent load balancer,
providing automatic and intelligent management of Internet traffic and
content with reliability, scalability, speed and mgmt. For more info:
http://www.pcs.co.uk/catalogue/INTERNET_SOLUTIONS/bigIPfromF5.html
BVT Build Verification Test
CAB Change Advisory Board
CN Container name
CRL Certificate Revocation List – an excellent history of how this evolved can be found
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list
CRM Customer Relationship Management – see the following for Microsoft’s Solution:
http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/CustomerRelationshipManagement.
mspx .
CSS Collaborative Self Study: main session type for LMS (Learning Management
System)
DC Domain Controller
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DL Distribution List
DN Distinguished Name
DNS Domain Name Service or Server
DSL Definitive Software Library (an ITIL and MOF entity – see the following for
additional information:
http://www.itilcollege.com/DefinitiveSoftwareLibraryITIL.html
DTS Data Transformation Services – see the following for additional information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transformation_service
EC Enterprise Console
ECI Employee Contractor Integration
EMEA Europe, Middle East, Africa
ERC Enterprise Reporting Consolidation
F5 Firepass A third party network solution for secure connectivity – see the following link for
further information: http://www.f5.com/products/FirePass/
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FRS Microsoft File Replication Service – an excellent link that explains this service is at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/TechRe
f/997eb538-387d-4086-97ee-ccc16ff8788e.mspx
FSMO Flexible Single-Master Operation – see the following for more information:
Acronym Definition
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223346
GAL Global Address Lists
GCS Global Catalog Server
GDN Global Delivery Network
GS Global Search
KCC Knowledge Consistency Checker
IBK Internet Banking System
iDA iDataAgents are software modules that are used for backing up
and restoring data. QiNetix software provides a variety of
iDataAgents, each one designed to handle a different kind of
data. If a given computer has two or more types of data, it
requires one iDataAgent for each data type.
IIS [Microsoft] Internet Information Server – see the following for more information:
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/iis/default.mspx
IIS For details about the [Microsoft] Internet Information Server Metabase see the
Metabase following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/a0
ea8e51-fb2a-4e80-9d5a-7fe3ae246570.mspx
ISAPI Internet Server Application Program Interface. For more information on this
subject go to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/at50e70y.aspx
IPSENTRY A third party network monitoring software tool. For more information see
http://ipsentry.com/
IR Internal Release
ISA Internet Security Acceleration – see the following for detailed information:
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx
ISS Internet Security System – see the following for more information:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/authors/auth3873.asp
ITSM Information Technology Service Management – purveyor of our new Service Desk
ticket tracking system called FrontRange. For more information about ITSM see
the following: http://www.itsm.info/
IVR Interactive Voice Response – see the following for additional information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivr
KVM Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch that allows multiple systems to be controlled from
a single keyboard, video, mouse arrangement. See the following for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch
LAN Local Area Network
LDAP Light Weight Directory Access Protocol
Learn see LMS – Learning Management System
LKR Learning Knowledge Repository
LUN Logical Unit Number – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUN for more information.
MAC Media Access Control address - is a unique identifier attached to most forms of
Address networking equipment. Most layer 2 network protocols use one of three
numbering spaces managed by the IEEE: MAC-48, EUI-48, and EUI-64, which
are designed to be globally unique. For more information see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_Address
MGB Microsoft Global Briefing.
MIIS Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS), Enterprise Edition. MIIS
provides an organization with a unified view of all known identity information about
users, applications, and network resources, automated account provisioning/de-
provisioning, and password synchronization and management.
MMC Microsoft Management Console. See the following for detailed information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/mmcsteps
.mspx
Acronym Definition
MOC Microsoft Official Curriculum
MOF Microsoft Operations Framework
MOFTIP MOF Tool Implementation Project
MOM Microsoft Operations Manager – see
http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/overview/default.mspx for more
information.
MP Within the context of System/Application Monitoring, this refers to a Management
Point. For more information see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;886039 . For
networking context this can refer to Multi Link Protocol. For more information see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/randz/protocol/mp.asp .
MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server. For details see
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/support/faqs/clustering_faq.asp
MSDE Microsoft Desktop Engine (see the following for additional information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDE )
MSF Microsoft Solutions Framework
MSI Microsoft Installer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Installer for further
information.
NAVISION Microsoft’s ERP product suite that integrates financial, manufacturing,
distribution, customer management, supply chain, analytics and e-
commerce data.
NLB Network Load Balancing
NOC Network Operations Center
NTFS New Technology File System. A technical resource dealing with NTFS can be
found at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/TechRe
f/81cc8a8a-bd32-4786-a849-03245d68d8e4.mspx
OLAP Online Analytical Processing (see the following link for additional information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLAP )
OU Organization(al) Unit
OWA Outlook Web Access
PAG Prescriptive Architecture Guide
PDC Primary Domain Controller ALSO Professional Developers Community – context
should reveal which is being discussed.
PES Password Export Server. For more information see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepKit/
75c15a86-f52d-46dd-b894-a933ab202462.mspx
PIR Post Implementation Review (post mortem)Service Record
PTest Physical Test – requires actual hardware/software/firmware configurations
PS People Soft
PTR Pointer Record
PWS Project Work Space
QiNetix Backup/Restore software – see the following for additional information:
http://www.commvault.com/pdf/QiNetix_Brochure.pdf#search='QiNetix'
RAID Microsoft Raid - Bug Tracking Database
RDQ Raid Data Query
RID Relative Identifier
RMS MS Rights Management Services – see the following for additional information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/RMS/R
MSInitExpTechCenter/48755fe5-2808-4c5e-b365-b166aea1ba75.mspx
RRR Release Readiness Review
RSA Is an algorithm for public key encryption. For more information check out the
Acronym Definition
following excellent discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
RT Release Ticket
SAN Storage Area Network. For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAN
SARBOX Sarbanes-Oxley Act – see the following for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbox
SDS Shared Data Services.
SIG Software Installation Guide
SMS Systems Management Server - a Microsoft product to remotely manage systems.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Management_Server for more
information.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol – more information available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP
SPD Secured Password Database
SPS SharePoint Portal Server – see the following link for detailed information:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/default.ms
px
SRS Microsoft’s Sequel Reporting Services product. More info is available at
http://www.lionbioscience.com/solutions/e20472/e20475/index_eng.html . While
this also appears as a Microsoft product called Street Racing Syndicate and
Wikipedia lists System/Software Requirements Specifications, not to mention Sex
Reassignment Surgery, we believe the first definition listed is the most likely
usage.
SRV Service Record is a category of data in the Internet Domain Name System. The
following link provides a lot of clarity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
SUT System Under Test
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TED Time and Expense Database
TFS Team Foundation Server – Microsoft’s tool for SDLC management. See the
following link for more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/team/default.aspx
TS Terminal Server
UAT User Acceptance Testing
VSS Visual SourceSafe – Microsoft’s version control software. For more information
see the following: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/previous/ssafe/
vTest Virtual Test (usually incorporated use of Microsoft Virtual PC or Server)
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WAN Wide Area Network
WINS Windows Internet Naming Service – see the following for more information:
http://s.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/wins.
mspx
WITWAY Where In The World Are You
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Control is a tool that enables you to
configure WMI settings on a remote computer or local computer. Using the WMI
Control, you can manage a host of tasks remotely. See the following for detailed
information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerH
elp/e1c26788-a6e4-41ea-84ed-2f7800c40d61.mspx
WSS Web Service Security – see http://wss.collutions.com/default.aspx for more
information.
Acronym Definition