How can I search the Exchange Global Address Book by phone number?

I have a phone number, and I want to find the name of the person who lists that number in the Outlook Exchange Global Address Book at work.

If I use the More Columns option, no results are returned. If I use the Advanced Find window, there is no option for phone number.

I use Outlook 2007 as my client. I also have an iPhone.

Is there some other option that I'm missing?

daxlerod

Posted 2012-01-06T19:22:13.053

Reputation: 2 575

Answers

It would be possible to use a Search in the Active Directory, itself.

Can you open "Active Directory Users and Computers" in your Domain? There you can choose at 'Advanced' the Field "Phone" and search there.

Crujach

Posted 2012-01-06T19:22:13.053

Reputation: 356

"Telephone" for me - there's no way to search all the phone number fields - and I had to get the number in exactly the same format as it was in the directory. – Martin Dorey – 2014-06-27T04:53:38.297

Ok, that seems to work. For bonus points, what if I'm on a computer that isn't a member of the domain? – daxlerod – 2012-01-11T13:21:11.190

I think it would not possible to search in the Domain if you don't have a User-Account in the Domain. – Crujach – 2012-01-18T14:48:10.063

I mean the computer is not joined to the domain, such as my home computer. I can always fire up the VPN and use RDP to connect to a computer in the office, but sometimes I don't feel like finding the authentication card. Thanks for the reply regardless. – daxlerod – 2012-01-18T18:41:07.127

8quick shortcut to that dialog -> Run (Win+R) rundll32 dsquery.dll,OpenQueryWindow – Fowl – 2013-05-28T01:13:28.830

To find a phone number, I recommend using OCS/Lync/Skype for business client as your search tool. Try searching using just the last 4 digits as there is no enforced data standard for entering this information. Search under the contacts tab, and if this number is in the system you should see a match come up.

Tom

Posted 2012-01-06T19:22:13.053

Reputation: 11

If your computer has ldapsearch you can run the following command (just replace the square brackets with the correct info):

ldapsearch -b "CN=Users,DC=[company],DC=com" \
-h [ldapserver.example.com] -x \
-D "[DOMAIN]\[username]" \
-w [password] \
"(telephoneNumber=[321-645-7890])"

LDAPSearch

Posted 2012-01-06T19:22:13.053

Reputation: 11

I selected all the contacts from the global list and added them all to my personal contact list.. took about 5 Min to select 1000 employees and 10 minutes to add them because of the thinking time from the pc

iha10512

Posted 2012-01-06T19:22:13.053

Reputation: 1