I'd like to make an employee directory with names, pictures, phone extension, etc. I was also planning to use this as as a lookup column in several other custom lists, to track other information related to that employee. I am wondering, however, if it would be better to use SharePoint's built-in user profiles (ours sync with Active Directory). The problem is that not all of our employees are computer users, and often an employee that hasn't been a computer user will need an account created. Is making a custom list the best way to go, or is there some way that I can use SharePoint's built in user profiles? I'm using SharePoint 2007.

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Hi, I would suggest you to implement profile import from AD. To filter out these users in your connection string apply a filter as user = computer user. I hope this will help you outThanks, Rahul Rashu

Thanks for the response Rahul. Our SharePoint profiles do sync with active directory. My problem is what to do with employees that are NOT computer users.

I ended up creating a seperate custom list on the root of our sharepoint site as an Employee Directory with photos and other info. Then I went to Site Actions -->Site columsn -->Create Then create a lookup column that points to the employee names in the directory. Then for any list on the site go to Settings-->"Add from existing site columns" and add your lookup column. It will stay up to date based on the Employee Directory.