What is Active Directory?

Active Directory is a directory service for Windows developed by Microsoft.

In a nutshell, it’s a powerful tool in the hands of a system administrator to manage a newtork of PCs.

Access permissions, domains, shared folders, shared printes, proxy servers can all be managed through Active Directory in a centralized way.

Lorenzo in Glossary February 18, 2015

UAC – User Account Control – is a security technology developed by Microsoft and introduced with Windows Vista. It’s present

Lorenzo January 29, 2015

A hard link is a link pointing to a file, instead of the – more common – soft link that

Lorenzo in Glossary January 21, 2015

RAID (redundant array of independent disks or redundant array of inexpensive disks) is a data storage technology that combines multiple