Path and naming conventions
Attribute "logon name" that supports previous versions of Windows and must be less then 20 characters and unique within a domain.
What is the sAMAccountName?
Domain controller that contains the master copy of Active Directory.
What is the Primary Domain Controller (PDC)?
Ensures that you are able to log into the domain after changing your password within 180 minutes of your password modification.
What is Active Directory Replication?
This functionality allows you to claim part of an unused resource from VMs that are not being used at that particular moment.
What is Dynamic Memory?
People are human and there for Systems Managers who work efficiently we rely on this.
What is Scripting or Automation?
Path that requires "root level" identification.
What is an Absolute Path?
Domain controller that does store credentials and does not contain the ability to allow users to change passwords unless specifically added.
What is a Read Only Domain controller (RODC)?
Users, groups, shared folders are examples of these types of resource located in Active Directory.
What are AD Objects?
I am sometimes compared to a phonebook as I match names with numbers.
What is DNS?
I PPP to encapsulate traffic for transmission across network using a secure socket layer (SSL) connection.
What is Secure Socket Tunnelling Protocol or SSTP?
Name written using attributes such as CN and commas that identifies and object and it's location in Active Directory.
What is the Distinguished Name?
The "top" level of the domain structure or a location that you may hike through to smell the pine.
What is a forest?
LDAP is an open vendor standard that allows access and searching capabilities of AD using this protocol.
What is IP?
This System Center Configuration Manager server role is where packages, files and updates are stored.
What is a Distribution Point?
An exact duplicate that is never used and considered more precious than “Silver”.
What is a Gold copy?
The complete "domain" name for a specific host that consists of two parts: the host and the domain name.
What is the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)?
Authentication protocol used to identify a user to a domain or a three headed dog with a snake for a tail.
What is Kerberos?
Template of characteristics shared by object in Active Directory and also shared by all domains in a forest.
What is the schema?
I automate tasks using a menu style approach. Select the menu options you want to build you tasks.
What is System Center Orchestrator?
Used most often in a virtualized environment to prepare images for cloning.
What is Sysprep?
Path that requires the server host name in the path.
What is a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path?
Single "domain" found at the top level of the Domain structure.
What is the Root Domain?
Roles that are also known as the Flexible Single Master Operation roles.
What are FSMO roles?
This protocol, which is used every day by most everybody, uses the process called DORA (Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge) but does not have a back pack or friend monkey.
What is DHCP?
This is the most important tool we have in our tool box as a System Manager.
What is Documentation?