Photos in Active Directory

[timbo343]

I was wondering if anyone has considered or even implemented having photos in their Active Directory, something like in the link below?

 

Online Help: Add a User Profile Picture in Active Directory

 

or something like this Active Directory Browser home page, http://windowsitpro.com/active-directory/q-how-can-i-add-pictures-my-users-active-directory-ad.

 

It seems fairly easy to do on this link http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/how-to-manage-employee-photographs-with-active-directory/

 

We dont have a sharepoint or lync, i was just thinking for our use in the office for when a student needs to reset their password.

Edited December 10, 2015 by timbo343

[timbo343]

Actually, i've just set this up and it seems really useful.

[snagrat]

We use salamander to pull pictures from SIMS to populate AD. Great for Office 365

[timbo343]

We use salamander to pull pictures from SIMS to populate AD. Great for Office 365

 

Unfortuntely we cant afford to buy anything to do it for us .

[MicrodigitUK]

Unfortuntely we cant afford to buy anything to do it for us .

 

Salamander Soft do have a free utility to extract the Photos from SIMS.

 

http://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/utilities.html

 

Before I purchased full Salamander AD (that dose it all), we used this with scripts and a photo compression tool to put photos in AD.

 

All I can say is from experience you start with this and you soon realize the full potential of the paid for Salamander products.

[timbo343]

Salamander Soft do have a free utility to extract the Photos from SIMS.

 

http://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/utilities.html

 

Before I purchased full Salamander AD (that dose it all), we used this with scripts and a photo compression tool to put photos in AD.

 

All I can say is from experience you start with this and you soon realize the full potential of the paid for Salamander products.

Thanks, ive already got the photo exporter which is a really good tool

[Davit2005]

Went through a great deal to get this set up here and it integrates with Exchange and Lync very nicely.

 

I setup a Powershell script that resizes the photo's to good thumbnail size using a free image program that runs from a command with switches.

 

If using a PowerShell the initial image file needs to be below 10k if I remember rightly but then it can be replaced with a larger file up to 100K I think from memory. The photo is stored in AD as as Bytes, we have 600 odd photo's

 

It is also easy to stop a user having a photo if need be. To get the photo updated with our script it just a matter of clearing the thumbnailPhoto attribute on the user in AD. The next time the script runs it finds users that have the blank attribute and puts the photo in.

 

If anyone has a simple utility for reading the photo from AD I would be very interested

Edited December 11, 2015 by Davit2005

[psydii]

We use Salamander. It saves us weeks of time a year, and automaton beats manual every time for large repetitive tasks.

 

It pulls the photos through for us. We're quite a large school so it helps putting faces to names, and has been quite well received.

Edited December 11, 2015 by psydii

[timbo343]

Went through a great deal to get this set up here and it integrates with Exchange and Lync very nicely.

 

I setup a Powershell script that resizes the photo's to good thumbnail size using a free image program that runs from a command with switches.

 

If using a PowerShell the initial image file needs to be below 10k if I remember rightly but then it can be replaced with a larger file up to 100K I think from memory. The photo is stored in AD as as Bytes, we have 600 odd photo's

 

It is also easy to stop a user having a photo if need be. To get the photo updated with our script it just a matter of clearing the thumbnailPhoto attribute on the user in AD. The next time the script runs it finds users that have the blank attribute and puts the photo in.

 

If anyone has a simple utility for reading the photo from AD I would be very interested

 

Have you got this installed on to your AD on either your servers or work station? https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/35a8ee10-5016-4fdd-8b13-9bfd32279640/need-adextzip-to-add-users-phot-in-ad. It creates a new tab called Photo.

[Davit2005]

We have the powershell run on the exchange server but I don't think it matters where it runs TBH.

 

The image application is just an exe so does not need to be installed, I'm one for keeping servers as clean as poss

 

The photos are taken of staff and students when they get ID badges and the same photo is then used after it has been reduced in size by the script.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Davit2005

[andyfield]

I use this product from Code Two...

 

Add photos to Active Directory and manage them in an easy way

 

It's free and really simple to use... even allows you to add them on bulk matching photo names with AD attributes...

[tech-man]

+1 CodeTwo offering

[Embazzy]

another vote for Code two here

[Areku]

Cjwdev | AD Photo Edit

 

we used the free version of that, only allows imports of 5 at a time however *free version*

[rpwillis]

From Exchange 2013, including Office 365, you are now better off using Set-UserPhoto to import high quality photos which are stored in the mailbox, rather than using the legacy Active Directory thumbnail attribute.

 

In the case of Office 365 this will also propagate to SharePoint, Skype 4 Business and the rest of Office 365.

 

If any of our customers want this set up just drop an email to support.

[snagrat]

Am I right in saying it doesn't propagate to Yammer though?

[rpwillis]

Yes, it doesn't propagate to Yammer.

[karldenton]

Might have to give that a go Tim, I normally just use powershell. Have photos for all our AD users

 

Set-ADUser username -Replace @{thumbnailPhoto=([byte[]](Get-Content "C:\temp\username.jpg" -Encoding byte))}