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| MMC snap-in that is a graphical tool used to verify the current functional level and perform low-level Active Directory editing. This tool can be used to add, delete, and edit Active Directory objects. |
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| Restore operation that marks the object or container as the authoritative source of the objects in question, which will overwrite the tombstones that have been replicated to other domain controllers and effectively revive the deleted objects. |
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| Reference to an attribute within another object that will also need to be restored with the object. |
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| Command-line utility used to manage Boot Configuration Data (BCD) stores. |
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| Boot Configuration Data (BCD) |
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| Store that describes boot applications and boot application settings and replaces the boot.ini file in previous versions of Windows. |
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| Volume that hosts the Windows operating system and the registry. |
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| File used as a reference for database information written to disk. In a case in which Active Directory needs to be recovered from a failure, the checkpoint file is used as a starting point. |
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| Backup type that retains the Application log files on the local server. This backup type should be implemented if a third-party backup tool is used in addition to Windows Server Backup. |
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| Volumes that should be backed up. |
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| Process of taking fragmented database pieces and rearranging them contiguously to make the database more efficient. |
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| Directory Services Restore Mode |
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| Special startup mode used to run an offline defragmentation. |
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| Command-line tool that can be used to display or modify permissions of an Active Directory object. In effect, it is equivalent to an object’s Security tab. |
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| Log file that stores a transaction until it can be written to the actual database. A transaction log file has a default size of 10 MB. |
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| Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) |
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| Database engine responsible for managing changes to the Active Directory database. |
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| Condition of a disk when data from the database is divided into pieces scattered across the disk. |
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| Process that removes all tombstones from the database. |
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| Graphical support tool that provides a much more detailed method of adding, removing, searching, and modifying the Active Directory database. |
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| Backup initiated by using Server Backup or the Wbadmin.exe command-line tool. |
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| Command-line tool that is typically used to verify trusts and check replication. |
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| Restores a single Active Directory domain controller to its state before the backup. This method can be used to restore a single domain controller to a point in time when it was considered to be good. |
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| A manual process that defragments the Active Directory database in addition to reducing its size. |
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| Automatic process of taking fragmented database pieces and rearranging them contiguously that occurs during the garbage collection process. |
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| Data item associated with a performance object to monitor the specific process or event to be tracked. |
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| Reliability and Performance Monitor categories used to organize items that can be monitored. |
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| Reliability and Performance Monitor |
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| Tool located within the Administrative Tools folder that enables administrators to collect real-time information on the local computer or from a specific computer that they have permission to access. |
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| Command-line tool that can check replication consistency between replication partners, monitor replication status, display replication metadata, and force replication events and Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) recalculation. |
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| Restartable Active Directory Domain Services (Restartable AD DS) |
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| Windows Server 2008 feature that enables administrators to start, stop, and restart Active Directory, similar to any other service on a server |
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| Backup using the Windows Server Backup utility or the Wbadmin.exe command-line tool. Scheduled backups will reformat the target drive that hosts the backup files and thus can only be performed on a local physical drive that does not host any critical volumes. |
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| Volume that hosts the boot files. |
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| What is left of an object that has been deleted. Deleted objects are not completely removed from the Active Directory database; rather, they are marked for deletion. Tombstone objects have a lifetime of 180 days by default. |
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| Server RAM that stores data before it is actually written to the server’s hard drive so that all data in the transaction can be written to disk at the same time. |
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| Backup type that updates each file’s backup history and clears the Application log files. |
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| Command-line component of the Windows Server Backup snap-in. |
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| Command-line and task-based scripting technology introduced in Windows Server 2008. |
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| Feature used to back up Active Directory. It supports the use of CD and DVD drives as backup destinations, but does not support magnetic tapes as backup media. |
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