SQL Server 2012: Always On and SQL Server authentication
Here is just a small problem I experienced while adding databases with SQL Server authentication enabled (used for some php websites) to an availability group. Steps I took to add the databases: Add all logins to the secondary server (SQL Management Studio > Security > Logins > Create login) Add database to availability group (Always On High Availability > Availability Groups > desired group > Add Database) So the operation was successful and all databases were synchronized. Now I did a manual failover to the second node. But the php application was not able to login...
Read MoreHow to display user pictures in Outlook, Sharepoint & Co. using Active Directory?
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...
Read MoreHow to display Active Directory stored user account pictures in Windows?
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...
Read MoreHow to save a user picture in Active Directory with vbScript?
Active Directory offers the possibility to save pictures in a user’s object. These pictures can then be used in Outlook, Sharepoint or even self-written applications. Here is how you can do it: Function SavePictureToAdFromUrl(szADsPath, szUrl) Dim objUser, bytesRead, adoStreamRead Const adTypeBinary = 1 Set xml = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") xml.Open "GET", szUrl, False xml.Send If xml.status = 200 Then Set adoStreamRead = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") adoStreamRead.Type = adTypeBinary adoStreamRead.Open adoStreamRead.Write xml.responseBody...
Read MoreHow to set the Windows 7 user account picture programmatically?
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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