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| Microsoft Office 365 | A subscription service that allows users to access programs either from an App or from the web. |
| Microsoft SharePoint | A platform from Microsoft that is used to create intranets (internal websites) for team collaboration, blogs, wikis and company news. It is also commonly deployed to extend certain information to customers via password-protected websites. |
| BLOB | Binary Large Object Storage - A file of any type and size. Azure Storage offers three types of blobs: block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs. |
| Block BLOB | Up to 200GB in size. Used for your discrete storage objects like jpg's, log files, etc. |
| Page BLOB | Up to 1 TB in size. Ideal for storing index-based and sparse data structures like OS and data disks for Virtual Machines and Databases. |
| Table Storage | A service that stores structured NoSQL data in the cloud |
| SQL | Standard Query Language that is used to hold data. Think about it being one big table with fields containing data |
| Azure | A cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. |
| Container | provides a grouping of a set of blobs. All blobs must be in a container. An account can contain an unlimited number of containers. A container can store an unlimited number of blobs. Note that the container name must be lowercase. |
| Queue | Type of storage used to for small files up to 64KB |
| Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft's Email solution |
| Skype | Video Conference Application and instant messaging |
| Intune | A cloud-based desktop and mobile device management tool that helps organizations provide their employees with access to corporate applications, data, and resources from the device of their choice |
| MDM | Mobile Device Management |
| Multi factor Authentication | a method of confirming a user's claimed identity in which a user is granted access only after successfully presenting 2 or more pieces of evidence (or factors) to an authentication mechanism: knowledge (something they and only they know), possession (something they and only they have), and inherence (something they and only they are) |
| Full Wipe | Completely wipes all data from the device and reloads the OS - Like it was brand new out of the box. |
| Selective Wipe | Deletes only certain types of data that would typically belong to the corporation or business. |
| Lync | This video conferance service was replaced with Skype |
| Hyper-V | Used to create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer - is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security - a replacement for SSL |
| High Avaliability | Is a characteristic of a system, which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. |
| Scalability | The ability to easily increase or decrease the size and scope of a service. |
| Agent | Another name for Microsoft's Intune software |
| AD | Active Directory Services is called a domain controller. It authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network—assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. |
| Fault Tolerance | Is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of (or one or more faults within) some of its components. |
