"Directories help link people together — to facilitate the completion of communications
between humans and humans, humans and applications, and applications and applications."
Gartner Group
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Readily available and accurate directory information increases productivity by simplifying
employee communications and collaboration. Many Active Directory and AD LDS (ADAM)
deployments contain little useful employee information. Employees must resort to
using various spreadsheets or paper directories presenting a less than optimal collaboration
environment.
AD WhitePages is a completely web-based directory application designed to enable
Active Directory and AD LDS as your most easy to use, up to date and interactive
source for employee collaboration. WhitePages may be accessed using its dedicated
web interface or as a web part integrated into your existing SharePoint sites.
AD WhitePages unifies multiple Active Directory Domains, Forests, and AD LDS directories
organizing information using a dynamic search-like technology called Directory Views.
Directory Views are search queries that may include users, groups or contacts from
multiple Active Directory Domains or Forests unifying them into named views.
Almost any field in your Active Directory may be used when creating your Directory
Views. The Directory Views are then assigned to users based upon their group membership
or roles within the organization. Each Directory View may be configured concerning
what information is visible and searchable by the end user. Privacy and security
are maintained as each attribute in a Directory View has customizable security controlling
who may see it or not. Directory Views themselves may be restricted to only be visible
by select users or groups.
The Form Designer included in the AD WhitePages administration console allows total
control over the look and feel of a Directory View. Admins may select fields to
show in the information grid as well as fields to display for the detailed view
of a user or other object. The details view for users or other objects can be designed
from scratch including building tabs, groupings of fields and field style selection.
AD WhitePages will quickly become a central point of employee collaboration by providing
the most flexible and comprehensive source of information. Most common forms of
collaboration such as sending an email, mapping an address using Google or Yahoo,
as well a placing a call with a software phone are available as clickable actions.
To keep your Active Directory and AD LDS information up to date and accurate, AD
WhitePages includes a flexible mechanism where other users and groups may be assigned
as "editors" and granted the right to update information for other users and contacts.
Editors are limited to which users they may edit using AD WhitePage’s flexible Directory
Views technology.
AD WhitePages also provides seamless integration with AD Info's self-service functionality.
AD Info self-service allows users to update their own directory information anytime,
anywhere, using only a web browser.