Comments on: Photos in Active Directory

By: GT

GT — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:31:53 +0000

For Outlook 2010 it seems that it is the thumbnailPhoto attribute that must be populated and not jpegphoto. I just the line in the vbs that has ObjUser.Put “jpegPhoto” to ObjUser.Put “thumbnailPhoto” and it worked perfectly (with a jpeg pic). I read somewhere else that photos must be < 10 kb, but haven't tested this myself.

Thanks for the script!

By: Fizzgig

Fizzgig — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:06:12 +0000

Hi Steve,

You have to remember that whatever pic size you use will increate the size of your AD, and also be aware of the initial hit of replication traffic to all of your DCs.

1,500 pics at 40Kb = 60,000Kb or ~58.5Mb not too much of an increase in size maybe, certainly not as much as if you were using Group Policy to deploy and app!

You can use Irfanview[1] for batch processing your images, its quite powerful.

I’ve just found out that the #1 requirement of people posting on this article- photos in Outlook – is finally a feature of Outlook 2010 apparently against Exchange 2010. And, typically, it uses a different attribute. I’ve not had any time to look at this and check if the byte encoding my article uses is the same, and the script could just be changed to use the thumbnailPhoto instead.

http://blogs.technet.com/ilvancri/archive/2009/11/17/upload-picture-in-outlook-2010-using-the-exchange-management-shell-exchange-2010.aspx

[1] http://www.irfanview.com/

By: Steve Lee

Steve Lee — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:32:02 +0000

Is there a recommended limit to how big the photos should be? You suggest 25kb, all my photos are 40kb, would you suggest I make them smaller? If so can anyone suggest a batch tool? I have 1500 photos

You can use the trial version of the program below to view the images, it was useful when I was testing the script.
http://www.dovestones.com/products/Active_Directory_jpegPhoto.asp

By: MattW

MattW — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:37:40 +0000

Could someone tell me the difference between the Photo attribute in the AD Schema vs, say the jpegphoto attribute? I keep reading that the Photo attribute is an object encoded in G3 fax format to store monochrome images, but then I’ve read in other articles that people are using that attribute to import .jpeg’s. I don’t understand the purpose of the attribute, and it irritates me. Can anyone enlighten me?

By: Jason Williams

Jason Williams — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:54:17 +0000

It would seem that you could link the SharePoint User Photo (in the top left corner of a MySite) to the Active Directory jpegPhoto property, but I am finding that is not the case. Anyone have any luck doing this?