Microsoft Internet Security and
Acceleration Server 2000
W
Web proxy
service
The service that provides a means for ISA to act as a proxy
server.
well-known
port number
The standard, default port numbers used by the Internet
community for well known (commonly used) services. For example, the
well known port number for the Gopher service is 70; for the World
Wide Web service, it is 80.
Win32
Internet Extensions
A collection of functions contained in Wininet.dll that
simplifies client access to the Internet by way of HTTP, FTP, and
Gopher. The set of functions is an extension to the Win32®
API.
Windows
2000 challenge/response authentication
A method of authentication in which a server uses
Windows 2000 security to allow access to its resources.
A tool used by Windows 2000 to track computer activity by
using a predefined set of counters.
Windows 2000
Server Event Viewer
A program provided with Windows 2000 that enables users to
monitor system, security, and application events by viewing the
Windows 2000 Event Log.
Windows
2000 System Event Log
A Windows 2000 service that records events in the system,
security, and application service logs. See also Windows 2000 Server
Event Viewer.
Windows
Internet Name Service (WINS)
A name resolution service that runs on Windows 2000
Server. WINS maps friendly names to IP addresses. A WINS server
handles name registrations, queries, and releases. See also
Domain
Name System (DNS).
Windows Script
Host
A language-independent scripting host for Microsoft ActiveX®
scripting engines.
Windows Sockets
A Windows implementation of the widely used University of
California-Berkeley Sockets API. Windows Sockets (Winsock) is a
networking API used to create TCP/IP-based sockets applications.
Winsock provides interfaces between applications and the transport
protocol and works as a bidirectional connection for incoming and
outgoing data. See also socket.