Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Legitimite, functioning, real users that do not appear in Active Directory

I am trying to get profile information for reporting purposes, on our project management teams. Specifically I want their work number, to enable commnication.

I get the feeling I don’t understand Active Directory.

So I can easily read our Active directory with it’s 10’s of thousands of users. I just open PowerBI, “Get Data” from Active Directory, sign in, and done. Plenty of different tables etc, but that’s just a bit of grut work and common sense, and I have what I need.

Except I don’t. Some people “do not exist”.

But they do. I speak to them regularly, in person. They are running our projects. They’re just not direct staff employees, but rather external contractors. Whatever… that’s all fine.

So maybe there is a different active directory that’s connected to our active directory? Maybe our whole system is actually outsourced and it’s a third party active directory?

The system in question is a cloud based Office365 type solution.

So… what am I not understanding?