Highclere Castle, Berkshire, from Downton Abbey. The 5,000-acre estate and Jacobethan castle shot to fame due to ITV's hit series about British class. In fact, Downton could well have saved the property, owned by the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, from closure. It needed Â£11.75 million worth of repairs prior to the series.
LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. As the name suggests, it is a lightweight protocol for accessing directory services, specifically X.500-based directory services. LDAP runs over TCP/IP or other connection oriented transfer services.
LDAP is a protocol specification for directory data. Active Directory is Microsoft's Implementation of an LDAP based directory server. AD also has custom extensions ontop of the LDAP v3 spec such as account lockout, password expiration, etc.nd this implementation is called Active Directory. So in a short summary, Active Directory is a directory services implemented by Microsoft, and it supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). PS[0]: This answer heavily copies content from the wikipedia page listed above.