Displaying User Photographs in Active Directory

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me how you can store photographs in Active directory and
display them to people searching for user details iwhen they search active
directory using the built in windows search tool

Many thanks

 

[Laura E. Hunter \(MVP\)]

You would need to extend the Active Directory schema to add a new attribute:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnactdir/html/adschemaext.asp

However, I would caution against adding image files into the Active
Directory database, since they're rather large and will greatly increase the
demand on your domain controllers as they try to replicate this information
across your network. Maybe better to store that information on an intranet
site, and add a link to the employee photo rather than the photo itself.

 

[Hank Arnold]

Amen to that......

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

Actually there is already an attribute in AD for a photo, it is called
thumbnailphoto.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../en-us/adschema/adschema/a_thumbnailphoto.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q292029/

Displaying it however is another matter. Much easier to whip up a web directory
and let people use that to display the photo out of AD.


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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net

You would need to extend the Active Directory schema to add a new attribute:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnactdir/html/adschemaext.asp

However, I would caution against adding image files into the Active
Directory database, since they're rather large and will greatly increase the
demand on your domain controllers as

they try to replicate this information