I ended up building a hacky internal IIS/PHP web app (I guess these days one would call it an SPA) …

… I ended up building a hacky internal IIS/PHP web app (I guess these days one would call it an SPA) that hooked into the company's Active Directory that showed a nice little page of people in our "business unit", with their names, pictures, employee grade (analyst/consultant/manager etc.) and subteam -- basically any bit of info I could get from a user's Active Directory profile. It used Datatables ( https://datatables.net/ ) for a simple text-based table view and Isotope ( https://isotope.metafizzy.co/ ) for a card-based grid view that you could quickly toggle between. I called it the "Book of Faces" and announced it to my team at a team social event, and it took off massively beause it was way more performant, simpler, and just much less painful to use than using the clunky corporate intranet app to check user profiles. Word spread outside of my team and I started getting requests from various other teams to set up similar pages for them as well, which I was only too happy to oblige. This spurred me on to refactor it to make it as simple as possible to set up new team pages. …