Glossary

Glossary of terms related to Microsoft Exchange and Mobile Messaging

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Fax

Fax is short for facsimile. Faxes are a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, typically operating over a telephone network. Synonyms include telefax and telefacimile.

File Replication Service

The File Replication Service, or FRS, is used to files created on one Microsoft Exchange Server are replicated and synchronized with other Exchange Servers in the same cluster.

Filter

A Filter is a system that processes, sorts and organizes email messages according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence as well as automated anti-spam technologies.

Financial Institution Privacy Act

The Financial Institution Privacy Protection Act of 2003 is an ammendment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or GLBA. It provides additional protection for private user and customer information managed by financial institutions.

Firefox

Firefox is the name of a free open source software, or FOSS, web browser produced by the Mozilla Foundation. The Firefox browser can be used for Outlook Web Access.

Fonts

Fonts are a collection of all of the characters of a single typeface including letter, numbers, punctuation and special characters. Font support in email is handled through HTML formatting and HTML compliant fonts.

Foreign Connector

A Foreign Connector is another messaging server that connects to an Exchange Server through a method other than the Simple Mail Transport Protocol, or SMTP. The most common example of a foreign connector are fax servers that integrate with Microsoft Exchange

Forms Based Authentication

Forms Based Authentication is a method of gaining access to a user's email account by logging in to a website. The user's login information is stored in a cookie in their web browser. Outlook Web Access is the most common client that uses Forms Based Authentication for Exchange Server mail accounts.

Forwarding Address

A Forwarding Address is the destination email address for email forwarding. In this setup an email sent to email account 1 would be forwarded to email account 2 without the sender being notified. This is often used by people monitoring email from multiple domains.

Full Mesh Topology

Full Mesh Topology is an architecture for a physical computer network where any computer on the network can reach any other via a direct network connection.

Fully Qualified Domain Name

A Fully Qualified Domain Name, or FQDN, is a way of naming servers in the Domain Name System that is absolute to the root DNS. This is in contrast with relative names.