Posts Tagged "Pictures"

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

Posted by 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...

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How to display Active Directory stored user account pictures in Windows?

Posted by on Aug 12, 2011 in Active Directory, VBScript | 7 comments

This topic is little more complex and we’ll need different steps to accomplish this feature. 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 vbScript?” will do this for you using vbScript. Second you’ll need a small application that sets a picture on your harddrive as the user account picture. I tested this only with Windows 7 – so there is no guarantee that this works with other versions too. Why...

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How to set the Windows 7 user account picture programmatically?

Posted by on Aug 12, 2011 in C#, Environment, VB.net | 6 comments

Windows 7 offers the possibility to show small user account pictures, for example in the start menu or on the lock screen. Since there is no documented way of setting this picture programmatically here is a solution for developing a small application that can do this for you. You’ll simply need Visual Studio – either with C# or Visual Basic support. You can get your free edition here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/express. Create a new console application, copy and paste the following source code an build the solution. The resulting application will be able to set the user...

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