One of the most popular features of Outlook 2010 is how it can display GAL photos, the pictures of you and your coworkers. Given the popularity of this feature, it’s nice to know you can do it in Office 365 as well. There are posts online about uploading your image to your SharePoint MySite and then seeing images in OWA, but here we are going to load photos into Active Directory so they will be visible in Outlook 2010 and OWA as well. First we need to get photos we can use, then we need to load them into an attribute in AD, and finally, DirSync will push these up to O365. Sounds easy, right?
Yeah, well, it can be, but then again, if it was that easy there wouldn’t be a need to write a blog post, would there?
Run it in full screen, and with audio. Language may be mildly not safe for work. Towards the end, do NOT attempt to drink any beverages while viewing this.
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Have you ever felt like it takes the Exchange Management Shell, like, FOREVER to get from the point where you click it to the point where you get the blinking cursor so you can actually do something? Yeah, me too.
Here’s a little trick that helps speed things up for me. It should do the trick for you too.
Open the EMS
Enter the command Get-ADServerSettings [enter]
You should see, well, basically, not so much. Like this.
Pick a Global Catalog server in the same domain and site as your Exchange server, and enter this command Set-ADServerSettings –PreferredServer fqdnoftheGC [enter]
Then repeat the first command, but this time pipe it into format-list.
That’s it really. Rather than waiting for the EMS to find and bind to a GC, you are saving time by telling it where to go. “Heh-heh, you told it where to go.” The following video merely affirms that at heart, I am twelve years old.
My taste in humour notwithstanding, if the little trick above helped you out at all, how about a shout out with a comment below, or maybe even a follow on Twitter? If I get ten comments or five follows as a result of this little tip I promise not to use another Beavis and Butthead video ever again!
As a follow up to my earlier post about the Geek ABC’s, I wanted to share a little story and some humour with you today. I was on the phone with another engineer, using the ITU spelling alphabet but not making a great deal of progress, when my client walked by and said “P as [...]
What do you get when you mix one part dystopian future, three parts vampire, one part kung-fu, a pinch of Catholic school induced guilt, one part Karl Urban, and two parts awesome? Priest. This Korean graphic novel inspired vampire hunter yarn is just simple fun; no moralistic story telling (despite the Catholic Church’s presence throughout,) [...]
What can I read to get more information? Try these links: Wikipedia’s articles on SOPA and PIPA Statement from Wikipedia editors announcing decision to black out Wikimedia Foundation press release Blog post from Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner Electronic Frontier Foundation blog post on the problems with SOPA/PIPA As of 6AM PT, January [...]
Midnight in Paris is one of the best movies I have seen in years. Woody Allen’s movies may be an acquired taste, but even if you have never enjoyed one of his earlier works, you owe it to yourself to see this one. Owen Wilson (who nails the first serious role I have ever seen [...]
In this post I explain how email archiving software solves many of the inherent problems that exist with the current email servers and email server setups. As you will see, storage space, the need to use PST files, performance and compliance are big issues for companies that do not invest in email archiving software. When [...]
There are posts online about uploading your image to your SharePoint MySite and then seeing images in OWA, but here we are going to load photos into Active Directory so they will be visible in Outlook 2010 and OWA as well. First we need to get photos we can use, then we need to load them into an attribute in AD, and finally, DirSync will push these up to O365. Sounds easy, right?
