We are exploring various options that exist in our environment to create an Employee directory. We have a SharePoint, AD portal and have recently migrated from Lotus Notes to Exchange. Our current employee search is the Notes user database, which has since been deleted.
Since migrating to SharePoint a year ago, we’ve been using a custom list using SharePoint profiles that are updated with AD. But the simple list interface is not very convenient and very slow. The ratio of requirements includes forward sets, images and details of skills / certificates and other demographic information, etc. We are considering creating an ASP.NET or SilverLight application that can consume information in a SharePoint list. With the introduction of Outlook and the global address list, we are now wondering if it might be easier to create something in Outlook.
Has anyone traveled the same way and what would you advise us to do?
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