The global catalog contains a replica of all of the directory
objects for an entire forest. The global catalog only contains a
subset of the attributes for each object.
global catalog
server
A domain
controller that contains the global catalog for the
forest.
global group
A group that can contain
members from its own domain, but can be granted permissions to
resources in any trusting domain.
group
An object class that is used to contain other objects, such as
users, computers and other groups, as members.
group policy
A feature of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows Server 2003 family operating systems that simplifies
management of user and computer settings.