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 was used initially as a front end to X.500 directories. LDAPv3 is an industry standard that can be used with any directory service, such as Active Directory, that implements the LDAP protocol. Active Directory supports LDAPv2 (RFC 1777) and LDAPv3 (RFC 2251).ote. Windows 2000 Active Directory does not implement the X.500 protocols (which include Directory Access Protocol [DAP], Directory System Protocol [DSP], Directory Information Shadowing Protocol [DISP], and Directory Operational Binding Management Protocol [DOP]).