Question : Show all User Profiles

We are currently going through a MOSS 2007 deployment, and I need to know if there is a way to just SHOW the user profiles, in alphabetical order, like a phone book.  I think Search works fine, but of course users want to be able to browse a phone book like it was their old Excel phone sheets.

I need to replicate that type of functionality in order for the MOSS Phone Book to be successful. It is very frustrating that I cant just build in a wildcard query in an Employee Search Results web part that would return all the profiles by default with just user name, email addy and telephone number, etc.   We are currently syncing AD with User Profiles, so all the data is there.

Answer : Show all User Profiles

There is a "built-in" address book that is accessed on the "add User" pages/fields.  This is accessed by internal JavaScript embedded in each page.  You can force this on your on links by adding an onclick event and pointing it at :

__Dialog__ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_ctl00_ctl01_userPicker(); return false;

This will create a popup with the address book for SharePoint.

You can also create a custom WebPart or even a BDC connection to the UerProfile WebService... It can be accessed here:http:///_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx