| Subject | English | German |
| commun. | back-up domain controller | Backup-Domänensteuerung |
| comp., MS | baseline domain controller | Basisdomänencontroller (A domain controller used as the control for Group Policy Object (GPO) replication within that domain to which all GPO content is compared) |
| comp., MS | domain controller | Domänencontroller (In an Active Directory forest, a server that contains a writable copy of the Active Directory database, participates in Active Directory replication, and controls access to network resources) |
| commun. | primary domain controller | Controller für die primäre Domäne |
| comp., MS | primary domain controller | primärer Domänencontroller (A computer running Windows NT 4.0 Server that authenticates logons and maintains the directory database for a Windows NT 4.0 domain. A primary domain controller is not used in a Windows 2000 domain. Instead, one domain controller is designated as the primary domain controller emulator for backward compatibility) |
| comp., MS | read-only domain controller | schreibgeschützter Domänencontroller (A domain controller that has read-only copies of directory partitions) |
| comp., MS | staged read-only domain controller installation | gestaffelte Installation des schreibgeschützten Domänencontrollers (A process in which a read-only domain controller (RODC) is installed in two stages. In the first stage, a highly privileged user, such as a member of the Domain Admins group, creates an account for the RODC. In the second stage, a delegated user attaches the server that will be the RODC to the account that was created for it) |