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How to import both users and contacts from Active Directory to a SharePoint list?

If you are an IT administrator who manages an Active Directory Domain and plans to export both users and contacts to a SharePoint list, AD Information Sync can help you to perform these tasks.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to use AD Information Sync to import both users and contacts to a SharePoint list.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

The users and contacts are imported to the Users and Contacts list from Active Directory.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

AD Information Sync

The sample data we use for this case

And there are some users and contacts in the Active Directory as following.

Import both users and contacts from Active Directory to a SharePoint list

Download the trial version of AD Information Sync and install it to your SharePoint server.
Navigate to the site in which the Users and Contacts is located.
In the upper right corner, click Settings and then click Site Settings.
On the Site Settings page, click AD Information Sync settings under BoostSolutions Software section in the bottom right corner of the page.
On the AD Information Sync Settings page, click Create Profile to create a new profile, specify a unique name for it.
In the List section, select the SharePoint list to which we will synchronize the information from Active Directory. Select Users and Contacts from the dropdown list.
In the Active Directory section, specify a domain server and user credentials to connect to the domain server (Ensure the user account you specify has the appropriate permissions to access the domain server). Then click Connect. If everything goes right, it will show Connection attempt successful under the Connect button. If things went wrong, please check the user account you specified, make sure it has the permissions required.
In the Filter section, specify the information you want to synchronize. Specify the object type as User & Contact.
In the Column Mapping section, map the AD attributes to the list columns as following.
Keep other settings as default and click OK to save the settings for the profile.
On the AD Information Sync Settings page, click Sync Now for the profile we created.
A confirmation message will appear to remind you that the synchronization will modify data in Active Directory or the SharePoint list of this profile. Click OK to start the synchronization.
Wait for a few seconds for the synchronization to be completed.

Navigate to the Users and Contacts list and you will find that all users and contacts in the Active Directory have been imported to the SharePoint list as following.