GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010

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CraigB — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:35:20 GMT

OliD, thanks so much for the ADUC extension, it works great and makes it so easy to load photos.

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GT — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:30:15 GMT

Nice OliD!

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vox — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:45:57 GMT

OliD - good! thanks!

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Joe J — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:53:48 GMT

@OliD - Your adExt.dll tool worked beautifully! Thank you so much! I am using Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2007, and the thumbnail appears in the GAL & in messages in Outlook 2010. The thumbnail does not appear in Outlook 2007 messages, but we should all be upgrading our Outlook clients soon anyway.

re: GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010

OliD — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:49:57 GMT

i have written an Active Directory Users & Computers MMC extension to manage the thumbnailPhoto ( and EmployeeId/Number) - it resizes the selected image to 96x96 for you. It adds two tabs to the User properties page:

http://www.dewdney.co.uk/adext/adext.zip

re: GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010

CM — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:04:41 GMT

We had photos already uploaded because we used another program (rdirectory) for our online directory. They are showing up fine and all but we had some concern that they may be sent outside the company. I am assuming this just does an internal look up and they are not actually attached to the emails?

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Dr.Fix — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:47:53 GMT

And what about removing a picture?

Please a GUI is absolutely required!

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Raegan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:18:20 GMT

There is a schema update required to enable this if you're running 2003 DC's and have never updated the schema beyond that. I'm not sure exactly the versions, but we had all 2003 R2 DC's and it wasn't working. Worked with MS for what seemed like weeks and finally found a difference between their test environment and ours. All I had to do in the end was do the 2008 R2 forest/domain prep and the pictures magically appeared.

The parameter in question was in schema attribute "Picture" the "mAPIID" attribute should be "35998". In our older version of the schema is was "not set". Was advised not to update this manually but to instead do the prep.

We are running 100% on Exchange 2007 and it works great as long as Outlook can talk to AD (if Outlook is offline, you don't get pictures and there is no cache). With Exchange 2010 you get the offline capability using OAB.

We wrote some custom syncing code similar to above that pulls the pictures from our ID badge database and samples them down to 96x96.

Works great!

re: GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010

Jake — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:50:20 GMT

@Neal & Toniko: Outlook 2010 and Active Directory 2008 servers (or maybe just the schema, I'm not sure) seem to be the key to getting photos to show up in the GAL. I don't have any Exchange 2010 servers, though I do have one 2007 on my network (and 6 2003). My mailbox is on the 2007 server, but I'd image it would still work if I was on a 2003 server.

However, in order to add the images to the offline address book, I think you need Exchange 2010.

re: GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010

Neal — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:17:00 GMT

We are running Exchange 2003/2010 in mixed mode and slowly moving mailboxes across to Exchange 2010. We also use a combination of Outlook 2003 and 2007.

Does this only work in a pure Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 environment?

Thanks

Neal