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Buddyfarr
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 Creating a phone book from AD, adding pictures
Active Directory, Windows Server 2003
currently my office has a phone book of our 400+ employees kept up in an MS Word file. I would like to try to find a way to create a dynamic phone book from Active Directory. all the office information is kept there anyway so this would be much better than keeping a separate manual file. I would on a second note like to know how I can insert pictures into active directory for each employee too.

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ASKED: February 12, 2008  6:32 PM
UPDATED: December 26, 2011  8:41 PM
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Yes you can do this. If your company uses Exchange then you already have this. It's just a matter of adding in the missing information. If you don't have exchange, but you do use Outlook you can setup your outlook clients to use the Active Directory database as a global contact list. This MBKB article should provide you some good info on doing this http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=238007. As for photo's, there is no where within AD to store them by default. And even if there was, most users wouldn't have a way to see the pics. Your best bet would be to setup a network share and put employee photos there with the filename being the employee's username. Then setup a webbased contact list so that everyone can see the photos. ***buddy*** MrDenny, we already use the global contact list for that. what I am looking for is a program that will query AD then create a phone book that lists everyone on one page in alphabetical order with their phone number, department, etc. I know there are programs to store pictures in AD, I just need a program to create the phone book. ***/buddy***
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You can add or manage images in active directory, the attribute name is jpegPhoto.
We use a tool called LDAP Admin Tool to add photos, you can download it from

To add image, select the entry, select the attribute jpegPhoto, double click to edit, click on the browse button, browse to the image, Click OK and you are done.

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