Active employee list

What is the best way to create an employee directory in Sharepoint 2010 that would display a list of all active employees and also have the ability to:

- display the photo of each employee

- allow creation of "views" of the list, e.g. only show employees for a specific department or a specific office location

- allow the ability to sort the list by one of the columns

- allow the ability to group employees by a specific field (e.g. show all employees but group them by department)

I've seen some posts about using the User Information List but I don't like this idea since some active employees who have never logged in to the site will not be in that list.  On the other hand, since our User Profile service synchronizes with Active Directory, I know it has the most up to date list of all active employees.  So it seem like the People Core Search Results web part would be the way to go.  But I don't think it supports creating views, grouping etc.

We are looking for a no-code solution.

thanks,