| English | Spanish |
| authoritative name server | servidor de nombres autoritativo (A DNS server that is responsible for the DNS records that are associated with a domain) |
| authoritative page | página relevante (A Web page that a site collection administrator has designated as more relevant than other Web pages. This is typically the URL of the home page for the intranet of an organization. The higher the authority level assigned to a page, the higher the page appears in search results. Also referred to as authoritative page) |
| authoritative recovery | recuperación autoritativa (In Backup, a type of restore operation performed on an Active Directory domain controller in which the objects in the restored directory are treated as authoritative, replacing (through replication) all existing copies of those objects) |
| authoritative source | origen de autoridad (A user that has thoroughly tested and certified the software. Typically, these sources include Microsoft Corporation and independent software vendors (ISVs)) |
| non-authoritative recovery | recuperación no autoritativa (A restore operation performed on an Active Directory domain controller in which the objects in the restored directory are not treated as authoritative. The restored objects are updated with changes held on other domain controllers in the domain) |
