Server Manager
The Windows Server console used to manage roles, features, services, and multiple servers from a centralized interface.
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Shortcut Trust
A manually created transitive trust between two domains in the same forest to shorten the authentication path.
View →SID Filtering
An Active Directory trust security mechanism that filters unexpected or unauthorized SIDs from tokens coming from another domain.
View →SIDHistory
An Active Directory attribute that can preserve a user's or group's former SIDs after a domain migration.
View →SMB Compression
An SMB feature that compresses data during transfer to reduce the amount sent over the network.
View →SMB Direct
An SMB extension that uses RDMA for low-latency, high-throughput transfers with low CPU usage.
View →SMB Witness
An SMB mechanism that lets a client quickly receive notifications about server state for a clustered file service.
View →Storage Spaces
The Windows storage virtualization layer that groups physical disks into pools and exposes resilient virtual disks.
View →Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
A Windows Server feature that aggregates local disks across cluster nodes into distributed software-defined storage.
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