Mac OS X Server

The Directory application provides access to shared information about people, groups, locations, and resources in your organization. You can share contacts, set up group services, find shared equipment, and more.

Who’s who.

With Directory you can search for and, more important, find people in your organization. Just type in a name. Directory displays your coworkers’ information, their photograph, who they work with and for, which groups they belong to — it even shows you a map of their location. You can also manage your own record and distribution of personal contact data.

Common knowledge.

You can save time by creating groups of individuals, which lets you provide common services to a set of people. Set up a group website with wikis, blogs, mailing lists, or calendars, and disseminating information just got easier. You can even set different levels of access for different members of the same group. For example, you can create a group website that everyone can see, but only a few members can edit.

Room with a view.

Tired of searching for hidden conference rooms? With Directory you can easily find the location of any building, meeting room, or employee in your company. Locations work in conjunction with iCal Server, so you can reserve specific conference rooms.

According to schedule.

You’ve scheduled the meeting but the projector is already in use? With Resources, that will never happen again. Any shared equipment — such as printers, scanners, and televisions — can be managed with Resources. When you add items to your directory, people can easily find out who to contact to borrow equipment or use iCal to reserve its use.