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How to import user information from Active Directory to a SharePoint contact list?

AD Information Sync enables you to import or sync user information from Active Directory to any SharePoint list, such as contact list or custom list.

In this article we will demonstrate how to create a profile to import user information to a contact list.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

Users are imported into the Employee Info list (a Contacts list) from Active Directory

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

AD Information Sync

The sample data we use for this case

And we have 7 users in the Active Directory as following.

Import user information from Active Directory to a SharePoint contact list

Download the trial version of AD Information Sync and install it to your SharePoint server.
Navigate to the site in which the Employee Info list 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 Employee Info list 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.
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 Employee Info list and you will find that those 7 users have been imported from Active Directory to the SharePoint list as following.
Check details of any of these users such as Mike Miller, the properties of Mike Miller have been synchronized from Active Directory to the Employee Info list as following.