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Every now and then we come across terminology that leaves us scratching our heads as to the meaning of certain acronyms, buzzwords or new IT terms emanating from our friends at Redmond (or Reading!). With this in mind, we've put together a glossary of terms for you to use, print off or cut-n-paste to your desktop which will help you sort out your ASPs (Active Server Pages) from your ASPs (Application Service Provider).
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LANE LAN Emulation (LANE) is a set of software components that provide support for legacy applications and network protocols on an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. Microsoft implements a LANE client module that installs during ATM hardware installation. LANE services provide interoperability between ATM and standard LAN environments at Layer 2 (the Data Link layer) of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model.
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, is a communication protocol that Windows 2000 (Win2K) uses on TCP/IP networks to access directory services. The protocol defines how a directory client can access information in a directory server. Active Directory (AD) supports LDAP versions 2 and 3. Win2K clients use LDAP to access domain controllers (e.g., to log on to the network) and Global Catalog (GC) servers (e.g., to locate shared resources on the network).
Mandatory user profile A mandatory user profile is a preconfigured user profile that lets a user make modifications to the profile while logged on, but prevents the changes from saving when the user logs off. Each time the user logs on, the mandatory user profile downloads for the user. To create a mandatory user profile, an administrator has to rename the user’s ntuser.dat file on the server to ntuser.man and enter the path to the user’s profile in the User Account properties in Active Directory (AD) Users and Computers. The Authenticated Users group must have read only permissions to the share where you store the user profiles. Administrators can assign the same mandatory user profile to several users.
Microsoft Authentication An AppleShare extension that's part of Services for Macintosh that provides secure logon for Macintosh clients connecting to Windows 2000 (Win2K) servers. By default, Macintosh passwords travel over the network wire in plain-text format, and installing this extension on Macintosh clients lets clients encrypt passwords. Microsoft Authentication also lets Macintosh users specify a domain name so they can log on to a Win2K domain with individual accounts. Macintosh clients running System 7.1 or later will see Microsoft Authentication as their only option if you’ve disabled the guest and clear-text options on the server.
Multicast Routing Multicast routing lets multicast-capable routers communicate across the network so that multicasting information forwards intelligently. Multicast routers use multicast routing protocols to communicate with other multicast routers. Examples of multicast routing protocols include Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP), Protocol-Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), Protocol-Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM), and Multicast Extensions to Open Shortest Path First (MOSPF). Windows 2000 Server (Win2K Server) includes dynamic routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF, but doesn’t include any multicast routing protocols.





















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