Glossary
This is an industry-supported web services architecture designed to assist the single sign-on (SSO) service to authenticate users to multiple, related web applications over a single online session, securely sharing digital identity and entitlement rights across security and enterprise boundaries.
This is a set of documents you can view in Central Administration that reports on the health and functioning of different aspects of search.
This is a collection of users defined by their membership in a group such as a distribution list and used to target information to specific groups based on their profile information.
In search, you can configure web pages as authoritative indicating they contain the most relevant information.
Generally refers to the various applications, practices, and technologies used to support business decision making.
This is a method that uses attributes possessed by an individual, such as group membership and age, to make “claims” about the person that, when verified, grant the party access to resources and that personalize the session.
These are built-in Windows PowerShell commands using different PowerShell-specific namespaces and processing commands as verb-noun pairs.
This is the process of moving content from one site collection to another, usually across two or more server farms.
These are used by a specific search service application to store information about the location of content sources as well as crawl schedules and other crawl operation–related data.
These are rules you can apply to crawls that include or exclude specific paths in a URL from being crawled as well as specifying authentication accounts.
These are rules you can apply to crawls that minimize the impact of crawls on server resources.
This is composed of a series of logs that collect data typically used in troubleshooting errors in SharePoint.
This is the type of backup that backs up only the portions of the platform or component that have changed since the previous backup operation.
These tools let users migrate documents from one format to another, either through a UI or through an automated process such as a custom workflow.
In SharePoint, this is a site or site collection that allows collaboration and coauthoring of content in a single location and allows for the discussion and management of such data relative to team and group-level projects.
This is a method of allowing SharePoint search to crawl external content sources such as Google news.
A system of classification related to the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to categorize content.
This method presents the party wanting to authenticate with an editable form that credential data is entered into and processed, allowing the party access to resources.
This is the process of backing up the entire platform or component such as the farm or a web application, regardless of whether anything has changed in the platform or component since the previous backup.
This is a set of monitoring tools that gather together different types of data including event log data, performance counter data, and timer service metrics data.
These are groups of query components that are used to contain a subset of the full-text index that returns search results.
This service provides the ability to deploy an organization’s forms in the SharePoint environment, allowing users to fill out any and all required forms within a web browser.
This authentication protocol allows nodes communicating over a nonsecure network to establish their identity in a secure manner, based on the client-server authentication model. In SharePoint, nodes must have access to an Active Directory domain.
This is also known as a site collection lock. The lock prevents SharePoint users from accessing a site collection that is near or has reached its the data storage limit set by the quota template.
This term refers to “data about data” and describes the characteristics of the information as used to catalog said information.
This process is used to map properties taken from crawled documents and managed properties that users employ in search queries.
This is a complete, server-based platform designed to provide a wide variety of report types, allowing organizations to gather relevant data and apply it across the enterprise.
In general, this is a collection of tools that lets you view the actions of various features and activities in SharePoint in order to establish a baseline of systems operations, determine when problems occur, and note trends that may require changes in the SharePoint hardware, deployment, and configuration settings.
This refers to the ability to partition data of shared services or software in order to meet the needs of multiple tenants, as opposed to setting up separate hardware platforms or running multiple instances of the service.
This allows the return of query information to be set by user permissions so that, in response to queries, users can view published information or published information plus draft documents depending on their permissions.
This allows web pages to be cached based on user profiles so the amount of a cache and how long web data is cached varies depending on the user account. Output caching can be configured at the site collection and web application level.
Formerly a separate product called PerformancePoint Server 2007, this service is not fully integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 and provides interactive dashboards and display key performance indicators (KPIs) to aid in business intelligence decisions.
The process of linking, exchanging, and matching data between the SharePoint profile store and other profile stores, such as those in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
These contain the metadata associated with crawled content and can be added to or removed from SQL Server database servers.
This contains the storage limit values that determine how much data can be stored in a site collection.
A specific web part for SharePoint installed when the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SRSS) Add-in is installed; it can read report definition (.rdl) files generated by SRSS.
This environment is used to restrict access to local and network resources to test load balancing or to test hosted environments prior to deployment.
These are used with scope rules to limit search queries to specific content and property types in order to return more accurate search results.
The specific service application in SharePoint responsible for providing search functionality.
This services replaces the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 single sign-on feature and is a shared service that provides storage and mapping of credentials to allow connections to external systems.
This is a specialized web service used to respond to requests for security tokens and to provide identity management.
This is used to associate service applications with web applications.
Services that are deployed in SharePoint and provide resources that can be shared across sites in a farm or between multiple farms.
This is a name that uniquely identifies an instance of a service among multiple services running on a computer. An SPN consists of the service name, the computer host name, and the port number.
This utility runs a set of predefined health rules against servers in the SharePoint farm to monitor any potential configuration and performance issues.
This is an interface between the computer user and the operating system kernel.
These are components that authenticated SharePoint users can access and utilize in their My Site websites, such as ratings, social tags, and Note Board.
This is a container for terms, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular item in SharePoint.
This is a shared domain account that is used for accessing PerformancePoint Services data sources.
This is a shared service in SharePoint that lets you create and manage SharePoint user profiles that can then be accessed from sites and site collections.
A central location in Central Administration from which you can manage personalization settings such as audiences, My Site settings, and profile synchronization.
This is a service application that allows users to share and view Visio diagrams directly in SharePoint provides data connections between diagrams in the Visio application and those published in SharePoint.
This is a set of documents you can review in Central Administration that provides information about how the amount and type of search requests for different pages and sites in SharePoint.
web.config
This is a configuration file accessed with the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager that, when edited, allows the administrator to configure BLOB and object cache settings.
This is a command-line interface that processes objects based on the .NET Framework.
This is a process that allows multiple people to collaborate and have input on documents for the purpose of managing project tasks.