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Microsoft Corporation
Industry: Computer
Number of terms: 318110
Number of blossaries: 26
Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A state that refers to a resource in a failover cluster or server cluster when the resource is in the process of being brought online or taken offline.
Industry:Software
A chart that shows a three dimensional surface that connects a set of data points. As in a topographic map, colors and patterns indicate areas that are in the same range of values.
Industry:Software
A DWORD that specifies how data is used. A user type is assigned to an identifier in the metabase.
Industry:Software
A form of threading that is supported by Component Object Model (COM). In a single-threaded apartment model, all objects are executed on a single thread and each thread resides within its own apartment.
Industry:Software
A number that identifies a certain Internet application. For example, the default port number for the WWW service is 80.
Industry:Software
A rule associated with an object to regulate which users can gain access to the object and in what manner. Permissions are assigned or denied by the object's owner.
Industry:Software
Multiple Web sites that are hosted on one computer.
Industry:Software
The master configuration file (MBSchema.xml) supplied with IIS that contains all of the predefined properties from which metabase entries are derived.
Industry:Software
A file that stores IIS configuration settings to disk. This file is named MetaBase.xml by default. When IIS is started or restarted, the configuration settings are read from MetaBase.xml into the IIS cache in memory, which is called the in-memory metabase.
Industry:Software
A hierarchical store of configuration information and schema that is used to configure IIS. The metabase performs some of the same functions as the system registry, but it uses less disk space. In physical terms, the metabase is a combination of the MetaBase.xml and MBSchema.xml files and the in-memory metabase.
Industry:Software
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