SMS Three Letter Acronyms

Like most other products, SMS has it's own dictionary of TLAs as listed below.

APM

BITS

CAP

CCIM

DDR

DP

GUID

LP

LZ

MDAC

MIF

MOF

MMC

MSI

NAL

PDF

PEA

PIP

RLE

SMS

SP

SQL

WMI

Available Programs Manager

Background Intelligent Transfer Services

Client Access Point

Client Component Installation Manager

Discovery Data Record

Distribution Point

Globally Unique IDentifier

Logon Point

Limpel-Ziv

Microsoft Data Access Components

Management Information Format

Managed Object Format

Microsoft Management Console

Microsoft Windows Installer

Network Abstraction Layer

Package Definition File

Program Execution Agent

Program Information Provider

Run Length Encoding

Systems Management Server

Service Pack

Structured Query Language

Windows Management Instrumentation