Is there a way to get Google Apps domain shared contacts to automatically show up in Google's contact manager?

Question

I'm trying to get all of my domain users to show up in Google Contacts automatically, but Google doesn't seem to support this basic feature. I could probably cobble something together with the Profiles and Shared Contacts API, but is there any other way to do this? I know this this already pseudo-implemented with address autocomplete, but some of my users really want to have a list of domain contacts. I wouldn't care if it was an Apps Marketplace app or something that I had to park on a server and run. I'm running Apps Education Edition.

Answer 1

Try SherpaTools for Google Apps http://www.sherpatools.com/tour/ We are using it for a long time and is the best way to do all the contact / shared directory tasks using Google Apps. Even they have a 'robot' for Gtalk who replys with data from the Shared Conctacs List.

Answer 2

I tested several free apps for sharing contacts, and this the best one I found so far. Netkiller Shared Contacts is free, easy to use and open source.