Active Directory Phone Book, AD Phonebook

AD Phonebook

AD Phonebook is a browser based Active Directory Phonebook that takes the pain out of maintaing the company phonebook. Installation is easy and you can be up and running in minutes, you can customize the look and what data is shown.

With AD Phonebook you can use Active Directory to provide up to date contact information to your employees. All the contact information shown is based on your criteria, only users or contacts that you want to appear are listed.

  • No need to maintain a separate company phonebook.
  • Active Directory updates are shown instantly, no more out of date phonebooks.
  • Browser based works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
  • Be up and running in just a few minutes.
  • Display Telephone, Email, Address, Mobile, Fax, employeeNumber and more.
  • Display almost any Active Directory attribute.
  • Exclude users, groups, OUs that you don't want to appear.
  • Only display attributes you need, custom attributes are also supported.
  • Users can update their own contact information when used with AD Self Update.
  • In very large domains you can use SQL as a cache returning results instantly.

Scroll down to see screenshots, click to enlarge.

AD Phonebook with photos enabled.

AD Phonebook with photos enabled

AD Phonebook with pop-up enabled (click to enlarge). More detailed information can be accessed when an entry is clicked, you can display almost any Active Directory attribute.

AD Phonebook details pop-up

AD Phonebook with photos turned off, email address and phone numbers can be hyperlinks.

AD Phonebook

AD Phonebook instant search page, returns results as you type.

AD Phonebook with instant search, results returned as you type.

Contact details displayed under the main listings.

AD Phonebook details shown under listing

AD Phonebook showing a selected user with photo (click to enlarge).

AD Phonebook showing photos

You can use our photo import tool AD Photos to import photos in to Active Directory in bulk (includes watermarking feature as demonstrated below).

AD Phone Photo Close Up

Search the phonebook based on the properties you specify.

Allow your users to export the phonebook to PDF, Excel , Word or CSV (or turn this feature off).

Customize AD Phonebook to display the information you want your users to see.

Quick alphabetical search.

Alphabetical Sort

AD Phonebook supports multiple domains.

Support multiple domains

When more than one domain is available you can query all domains (default) or query specific domains.

Multiple Domains

The AD Phonebook installation takes just a few minutes, after the installation has completed you will need to assign a service account that can be used to query Active Directory this is done using the AD Configuration program which you will find under 'Start\All Programs\Dovestones Software'. If you have more than one domain you will need to specify each domain here.

Configuration

System Requirements

The following software should be installed before installing the application:

  • Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0, 7.0 or 7.5 with World Wide Web Service installed
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (Download here)
  • ASP.NET 2.0 Enabled, In IIS Manager set to ‘Allow’ under ‘Web Service Extensions’