Your description is vaguely worded enough to cover every method of configuring software.
If you want specific info, I think Microsoft's documentation is quite clear and comprehensive: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...
Not sure why you need me to share that instead of taking five seconds to look it up on google. Guess you don't care as much about privacy as you like to pretend.