Enabling Photo for Directory Update and Directory Manager
Applies to:
Directory Update v1.6
Directory Manager v1.2
[Updated September of 2010 to match up with Microsoft's current functionality in
Exchange 2010/Outlook 2010 as well as their future plans for photo usage.] Directory Update
v1.6 (and later) as well as and Directory Manager v1.2 (and later) support the
ability to upload a photo in to the Active Directory. Here are some important
things to keep in mind about photo support:
- Photos are disabled by default
- Each photo will take up around 10KB of space in the
Active Directory database; for the best results, photos that the user’s
upload should have a similar aspect ratio so they don’t look stretched.
- Photos are “re-rended” to an aspect ratio defined in
the DirectorySettings.XML file. We recommend setting this to 128 x
128.
- Photos are stored in the jpegPhoto or the
thumbnailPhoto attribute of the
user object. We recommend setting the attribute to thumbnailPhoto via the
DirectorySeettings.XML file.
- Photos are not replicated to the Global
Catalog; only to domain controllers in the same domain as the user.
- You must have applications that can read the photo
data, such as the Directory Search application. Outlook 2010 can
currently read the jpegPhoto XE "jpegPhoto" attribute and display it
in the Global Address List.
- The NETWORK SERVICE user must have “Read”, “Read &
Execute”, “Write”, and “Modify” permissions to the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\directoryupdate\photos
folder; this is the temporary photo storage location.
- See this blog article for more information -
Exchange 2010 and thumbnailPhoto
Below is the photo tag from the DirectorySettings.XML
file; here you can change the label, photo width/height (in pixels), and a GIF
image to display to a user that does not currently have a photo.
<photo label="Add/Change Photo" attribute="thumbnailPhoto"
visible="no" editable="no" width="128" height="128" defaultValue="Images/noPhoto.gif" />
Last reviewed: 18 November, 2010 |
