Glossary

ANSSI

Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information is a French service assuming Cyber Security for the French State and has a responsibility for counseling and helping government agencies and Critical Infrastructure Operators (OIV) with securing their IT systems.

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System. It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. FQDN example: wapt.nantes.pdl.organisation.fr.

EPEL

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux is an extra repository for CentOS and RedHat.

GPO

Group Policy Object is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that controls the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides the centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users’ settings in an Active Directory environment.

MMC

Microsoft Management Console is a component of Windows that provides system administrators and advanced users an interface for configuring and monitoring the system.

SRV

A Service Record (SRV record) is a specification of data in the Domain Name System defining the location, i.e. the hostname and port number, of servers for specified services.

NetBios

NetBIOS is a naming system in the Windows universe and a software interface that allows computers to connect over the network.

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System. It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. FQDN example: wapt.nantes.pdl.organisation.fr.

Websocket

Websockets is a network protocol extending HTTP protocol in order to allow bidirectional client-server socket using the TCP connexion to a web server.

UUID or GUID

UUID or GUID is a standardized identifier and is considered unique; thus a UUID / GUID in the context of Active Directory allows to uniquely identify an object in the LDAP, a domain, an AD instance, etc. For more information, follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier.

CNAME

A CNAME or canonical name record is a type of resource record in the DNS that specifies that the domain name is an alias of another canonical domain name.

A field

A DNS A field matches a name (generally the name of a machine) with an IP address.

Certificate Authority

An CA is a third party entity that vouches the identity of individuals or services exchanging information.

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure is a set of roles, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facilitate the secure electronic transfer of information.

FSMO

FSMO means Flexible Single-Master Operations. These are roles that delegate some of the responsibilities in a multi-domain environment. There are 7 distinct roles.

RODC

A RODC server is a read-only domain controller.

samba-tool

samba-tool allows you to manage your Samba-AD from the command line.