CXO Definition. A CXO is a top executive that has chief in their title â this could be the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief information officer, chief technology officer, chief people officer, chief experience officer, chief procurement officer, and so on. CXO Staffs CXOs!
Active Directory is Microsoft's trademarked directory service, an integral part of the Windows 2000 architecture.
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.