* Multiple Active Results Sets, a technique used within Microsoft's SQL Server database management system to enable database connections to be used for multiple purposes

A competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ( ASP ) server-side script engine and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million Web sites and 1 million Web servers.

" Novell criticized Microsoft's Active Directory, the new directory service architecture, as less scalable or reliable than its own Novell Directory Services ( NDS ) alternative.

In large organizations, this is a task usually delegated to what is known as directory services such as openLDAP, Novell's eDirectory or Microsoft's Active Directory.

* Group Policy Object, a mechanism in Microsoft's Active Directory used to apply policies to directory objects

Initially very basic and supporting only Microsoft's Active Server Pages, this feature was greatly enhanced in GoLive 6, adding support for the PHP language and several databases.

* Ambiguous name resolution, a search algorithm for LDAP implemented in Microsoft's Active Directory

Advanced Systems Format ( formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format ) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio / digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media.

* Active Directory: Microsoft's modern directory service for Windows, originating from the X. 500 directory it created for use in Exchange Server, first shipped with Windows 2000 Server and is supported by successive versions of Windows.

JScript. NET is a. NET programming language developed by Microsoft as a natural successor to the Active Scripting language JScript, Microsoft's implementation of edition 3 of the ECMAScript standard.

Flexible Single Master Operations ( FSMO, F is sometimes floating ; pronounced Fiz-mo ), or just single master operation or operations master, is a feature of Microsoft's Active Directory ( AD ).

The most publicized feature of Internet Explorer 4. 0 was support for Microsoft's Active Channel technology, which was intended to deliver regularly updated content that users could personally tailor to their interests.

The introduction of the Active Desktop marked Microsoft's attempt to capitalize on the short-lived push technology trend led by PointCast.

Although little used, the availability of Active Desktop was key to Microsoft's legal argument in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust suit that Internet Explorer was a feature of Windows rather than a separate product.

GNAVI for Microsoft Windows aims to offer comparable features to Delphi and Visual Basic including the use of Active X controls and the ability to interface with Microsoft's. NET Framework and Sun's Java.

The inner authentication protocol is Microsoft's Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol, meaning it allows authentication to databases that support the MS-CHAPv2 format, including Microsoft NT and Microsoft Active Directory.

Active Directory and other features found in Microsoft's Windows NT Domains allow for remote administration of computers that are members of the domain, including editing the registry and modifying system services and access to the system's " Computer Management " Microsoft Management Console snap-in.

This is similar to the Read Only Domain Controller in Microsoft's Active Directory Domain Services.

In Microsoft's Active Directory the DSA is a collection of servers and daemon processes that run on Windows 2000 Server systems that provide various means for clients to access the Active Directory data store.

One of the more prevalent multi-master replication implementations in directory servers is Microsoft's Active Directory.

* ADSI Extender-Provides access to Microsoft's Active Directory Service Interfaces.

Microsoft's Active Directory is fairly simple by comparison, typically storing only user and machine objects in their directory.

For example, Microsoft's Outlook client uses a proprietary protocol to communicate with a Microsoft Exchange Server server as does IBM's Notes client when communicating with a Domino server, but all of these products also support POP, IMAP, and outgoing SMTP.

and AOL agreed to a deal in which Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 users would also have the possibility to talk to public instant messaging users.

Microsoft's ASP. net State Server technology is an example of a session database.

MIT OCW was originally served by a custom content management system based on Microsoft's Microsoft Content Management Server, which was replaced in mid-2010 with a Plone-based content management system.

* Remote Storage Server, a Microsoft's data management program

* Microsoft's Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol ( SSTP ), introduced in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

Although titled " SQL slammer worm ", the program did not use the SQL language ; it exploited a buffer overflow bug in Microsoft's flagship SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products, for which a patch had been released six months earlier in MS02-039.

Microsoft's IPv6 SSDP implementations in Windows Media Player and Server use the link-local scope address.

The worm was designed to exploit a security hole in the indexing software included as part of Microsoft's Internet Information Server ( IIS ) web server software.

Planning the migration from Microsoft's internal " legacy XENIX-based messaging system " to the Exchange Server environment began in April 1993, and the process was completed in the late 1996 when the last XENIX server on the MS corporate backbone had been removed.

* Threat Management Gateway, a software-based firewall solution, the member of Microsoft's Forefront product family, the successor of the Internet Security and Acceleration Server

WiX has proven to be so popular with Microsoft development teams that many of Microsoft's software products, such as SQL Server 2005, Office 2007, and Microsoft Codename Oslo are packaged using WiX.

A good example is Telnet or Microsoft's Server Message Block

The last version LAN Manager, 2. 2, which included an MS-OS / 2 1. 31 base operating system, remained Microsoft's strategic server system until the release of Windows NT Advanced Server in 1993.

It was created as a demonstration system to advertise the scalability of Microsoft's Windows NT Server and SQL Server, and used images from the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) and Sovinformsputnik ( the Russian Federal Space Agency ).

For Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 implementations, more bits are used.

The Internet Server Application Programming Interface ( ISAPI ) is an N-tier API of Internet Information Services ( IIS ), Microsoft's collection of Windows-based web server services.

Examples are the C ++ Standard Template Library, the Java Collections Framework, and Microsoft's. NET Framework.

These include MySQL Connector / Net for integration with Microsoft's Visual Studio ( languages such as C # and VB are most commonly used ) and the JDBC driver for Java.

Some virtual machines that support bytecode for Smalltalk, the Java virtual machine, and Microsoft's Common Language Runtime virtual machine as their ISA implement it by translating the bytecode for commonly used code paths into native machine code, and executing less-frequently-used code paths by interpretation ; Transmeta implemented the x86 instruction set atop VLIW processors in the same fashion.

* POI-a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats.

The " thumb " has different names in different environments: on the Macintosh it is called a " scroller "; on the Java platform it is called " thumb " or " knob "; Microsoft's. NET documentation refers to it as " scroll box " or " scroll thumb "; in other environments it is called " elevator ", " quint ", " puck ", " wiper " or " grip ".

Several modern runtime environments, such as Microsoft's. NET Framework and most implementations of Java, rely on JIT compilation for high-speed code execution.

* JScript. NET syntax and lexical conventions are similar to Java in that both are derived from C. JScript was originally Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript, which is more commonly known as JavaScript, though it is unrelated to Java.

Visual J ++ ( pronounced " Jay Plus Plus ") was Microsoft's specific implementation of Java.

Since its inception, the IDC has released several Microsoft products including Services for Unix ( A key product in Microsoft's Unix Migration strategy ), Visual J #. NET ( A Java language development environment ) for the. NET platform and MSN connector.