Basic
disk |
A
physical disk that can contain primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives
in extended partitions. A Basic disk is visible to MS-DOS and might contain spanned,
striped, mirrored, or RAID5 volumes from previous versions of NT. When you install Win2K,
the OS initializes your hard disk as a Basic disk. By right-clicking the Basic disk in
Disk Management, you can convert a Basic disk to a Dynamic disk and take advantage of its
fault-tolerance features. You can perform certain tasks on a Basic disk only, including
formatting a partition and marking it active, and creating and deleting primary
partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. |
CA |
A
Certificate Authority is a service such as Microsoft Certificate Server that issues
digital certificates. |
CDFS |
A
CD-ROM File System is the file system used on PC CD-ROMs, as defined by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) computer standard 9660. |
Child
domain |
A
child domain is a Windows 2000 (Win2K) domain whose DNS name is subordinate to another
domain. For example, research.mycompany.com is a child domain of mycompany.com. Also
called a subdomain. |
CIFS |
The
Common Internet File System defines a standard remote file-system access protocol for use
over the Internet, letting groups of users work together and share documents across the
Internet or within their corporate intranets. |
CLDAP |
Connectionless
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) is a UDP-like protocol for directory service
communications; doesn't require a session. |
Connection
object |
A
connection object is a unidirectional replication path between two domain controllers. The
bidirectional ring in AD replication requires two connection objects. |
Container |
An
AD object that holds groups of objects and other containers. |
CPS |
Connection
Point Services (CPS) gives companies a way to automatically update phone book files on
clients' computers. ISPs can use CPS to update access numbers and other information that
typically resides in the client phone book database. CPS consists of two major components:
the Phone Book Administrator (PBA), which runs on the workstation, and the Phone Book
Service (PBS), which runs on a server. |
CSP |
A
Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is code that creates, destroys, and uses keys to
perform a variety of crytographic operations |