I have a SharePoint 2010 challenge.  A department wants to maintain information about the people assigned to their department.  Things like badge number, assigned precinct, contact telephone number, certification dates, etc….

The initial plan was to maintain this information inside Active Directory but I fear the requirements will change so quickly and so often that it will be a huge burden on our (small) development staff.   Also, maintain the proper security will be a challenge as people are transferred from one area of responsibility to another.

I am suggesting we setup the department with a SharePoint site where they can add information fields and work with reporting while they figure out what information they want to track and report on.

I envision the department staff showing as a SharePoint list and a select group of department management can update the information associated with each staff member.  Only one or two individuals will have the permission to change the fields associated with the staff.  They can add/remove data fields and change the values in dropdown lists.

My challenge is defining the link between Active Directory and SharePoint so, as people are added to and dropped from the department; they show up on a list of department staff.  We will use Active Directory as the “master list” or people and use SharePoint to maintain the metadata about each individual and as a reporting mechanism.

Does anyone have experience with creating something like this?

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Submitted by Rick Young

This is very strange. I submitted the above discussion topic but it is being created under another member's information.
I was logged in as me when I created the discussion topic. Very strange.

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