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You can download a more in-depth glossary of terms: from here - put together for a coursemate to help him on one of the Learning Tree courses I attended.

Contents 1 Directory 2 Folder 3 Active Directory terms 3.1 Active Directory 3.2 AD 3.3 Domain 3.4 OU 3.5 Organisational Unit 3.6 DC 4 LDAP 5 Microsoft related 5.1 BSOD 5.2 Windows

Directory

A directory is a "container" on the filesystem in which files can be placed for easier organisation. An example directory on a Windows system would be the Program Files directory where many programs are installed by default.

See also folder.

Folder

The term folder is given to a directory in Microsoft Windows because the WindowsGUI represents a directory by use of folder icon (see right).

See also directory.

Active Directory terms

Active Directory

Microsoft's implementation of the LDAP protocol. Active Directory is used to manage users, computers, policies and the Windows Domain.

AD

Short for Active Directory - see Active Directory

Domain

A security perimeter for a computer network, so to speak. A domain sets rules, permits access based on user privileges and controls resources.

OU

See Organisational Unit

Organisational Unit

Like a folder in the file system, an Organisational Unit contains objects - computers, users, groups - in Active Directory. OU's can have group policies applied to them whereas containers can not.

DC

Domain controller - a computer that holds a copy of the Active Directory.

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - see LDAP on Wikipedia

Microsoft related

BSOD

Blue Screen Of Death - when Windows crashes completely a BSOD may be presented to the user providing additional information. This may be followed by an automatic restart.

Windows

The Operating System from Microsoft.