Platform SDK: Team Productivity Update

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Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)
A set of specifications for COM objects and interfaces. Administrators and developers can use ADSI objects to perform common administrative operations, such as adding new users or managing a print queue. For more information, see "Active Directory" under "Networking Services" in the Microsoft® Platform SDK or www.microsoft.com/windows/server/.
Active Server Pages (ASP)
An open application environment in which HTML pages, server-side scripts, and ActiveX components are combined to create Web-based applications. ASP is an Internet Services API (ISAPI) application.
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
A collection of data access objects within a hierarchical object library. ADO enables you to write a client application to access and manipulate data in a database server through a provider (database interface) such as Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0. For more information, see www.microsoft.com/data/.
ADO
See ActiveX Data Objects.
ADSI
See Active Directory Service Interfaces.
AIM
See Application Instantiation Model.
Application Factory
See application template.
Application Instantiation Model (AIM)
The programming infrastructure that enables the Team Productivity Update to host application in a Team Workspace. Applications register with the TPU by calling a method on the TeamAppManager object. For more information, see Introducing the Application Instantiation Model.
application template
An installation of software on a server computer that an Instantiation URL uses as a source for the unique copies of applications it deploys in Team Workspaces. An application template can reside anywhere on a network.
ASP
See Active Server Pages.