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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
        </glossentry>
 
        <glossentry>
-                <glossterm>Active Directory Service</glossterm>
+               <glossterm>Active Directory Service</glossterm>
                <acronym>ADS</acronym>
                <glossdef><para>
                A service unique to Microsoft Windows 200x servers that provides a centrally managed
@@ -202,6 +202,23 @@
                </para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
 
+       <glossentry>
+        <glossterm>Remote Procedure Call</glossterm>
+        <acronym>RPC</acronym>
+        <glossdef><para>
+               RPCs are a means for executing network operations. The RPC protocol is independent of transport protocols. RPC
+               does not try to implement any kind of reliability and the application that uses RPCs must be aware of the type
+               of transport protocol underneath RPC. An RPC is like a programatic a jump subroutine over a network. RPCs used
+               in the UNIX environment are specified in RFC 1050. RPC is a powerful technique for constructing distributed,
+               client-server based applications. It is based on extending the notion of conventional, or local procedure
+               calling, so that the called procedure need not exist in the same address space as the calling procedure. The
+               two processes may be on the same system, or they may be on different systems with a network connecting them.
+               By using RPC, programmers of distributed applications avoid the details of the interface with the network. The
+               transport independence of RPC isolates the application from the physical and logical elements of the data
+               communications mechanism and allows the application to use a variety of transports.
+        </para></glossdef>
+    </glossentry>
+
        <glossentry>
                <glossterm>Server Message Block</glossterm>
                <acronym>SMB</acronym>