local LDAP server for development on windows 7
ADAM is now called Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services, and was just published in a Windows 7 version, too - download it here:
AD LDS is the best solution for local LDAP development - it allows you to start and stop your AD instances at will (it runs as a Windows service), and you can even have multiple copies running.
Check out more about AD LDS in Technet or MSDN library
For those who are using Windows-8, the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD - LDS) is part of windows feature and we need to turn that feature on.
Following is the link to do so. (look into "To install AD LDS on Windows 8" section)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6a3bedf7-9c5b-4ada-9a51-6b794adc9ab8
Following is the link how we can create instance of AD-LDS.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816778(v=ws.10).aspx
For creating users and groups and other operation use below link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa772138(v=vs.85).aspx
And finally to integrate the AD - LDS with MVC below link shall be helpful
authentificate asp.net mvc 5 application from adlds instance
Apache has recently released a new version of ApacheDS, their LDAPv3 compliant server.