| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | baseline domain controller | 基线域控制器 (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 | 域控制器 (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) |
| comp., MS | primary domain controller | 主域控制器 (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 | 只读域控制器 (A domain controller that has read-only copies of directory partitions) |