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How to display user pictures in Outlook, Sharepoint & Co. using Active Directory?

Posted by Norman Bauer on Aug 12, 2011 in Active Directory | 0 comments

Newer versions of Sharepoint, Outlook or Office Communicator support showing small user pictures in new mails, contact information or websites using data stored in a user’s object in Active Directory. Even Windows can show your user picture for example on the lock screen or in the start menu. But you need to make some preparations for this feature to work. First at all you need the pictures for your user objects in the directory. You can use ADSI Edit, Powershell or 3rd party software to put pictures in AD. My blog post “How to save a user picture in Active Directory with...