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How to enable Active Directory ® Search as a Desktop company directory information service

Using your Active Directory as an address book for telephone and addressing information. The following image shows you how you can search for users:
In the dropdown boxes select the "Users, Contacts and Groups" in your domain. Type some characters of the name of the person you want to find and press enter or click the "Find now" button:
Using your Windows Active Directory as a corporate address book, click View to select the columns you want to be shown. (Click on image to enlarge)
Using your Windows Active Directory as a corporate address book, click View to select the columns you want to be shown. (Click on image to enlarge)

You can double click the person to get a detail view in a pop-up window.
Detail view of the Active Directory properties of a person.
Detail view of the Active Directory properties of a person.

How to configure?

In short: create an icon on the desktop using the following target:
%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow
Read the step by step explanation on the Petri.co.il website

Hint Want or know the members of a group without using your (remote) Active Directory tools? Just type the (starting characters of the) name of the group in the "Name" box and press enter.
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