Active Directory as great phone book in the sky

[ITWombat]

AD is used primarly for system administration but does anyone use it as... well... a directory?
Do you populate all those wierd and wonderful fields in a user record in Users and Computers snap-in.
How do you give users access to this information?

[ChrisH]

I dont think many people will fill in a lot of the fields and theres all that personal information that needs to be protected as well....

[PiqueABoo]

If you've got Exchange + Outlook/OWA etc.. users can see address, depts, phones... and search by some of them.

[Gatt]

At the moment our AD is only for the kids so no we dont populate much though do poulate the "Department" field with their Year

[plexer]

I just un published all my printers from AD because as my printer vbs now only connects the 2 closest printers to a user a couple of my more savvy students found out they could browse the directory for printers from within the word print dialog and connect to any of them.

Ben

[Gatt]

Cant you prevent that through Group Policy

[plexer]

Probably. There is just so many settings I lose track

Ben

[sahmeepee]

You can also set the security on the printers' ACLs so they can't print to them via Windows.