Glossary

A

Active Directory

A directory service available with the Windows Server 2008 platform. Active Directory stores information in a central database and allows users to have a single user account (called a domain user account or Active Directory user account) for the network.

Authorization Manager

Allows administrators to assign user-integrated role-based access control to applications.

B

baseline

Starting point for monitoring. Baselines give you a point in time that you can compare to later.

C

checkpoints

This point-in-time virtual machine backup gives you the ability to save the state of each virtual hard disk that is associated with a virtual machine.

copy backups

Same as a full backup without resetting the archive bit. See full backup.

counters

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