Hi, i have developed a GUI application for managing the thumbnailPhoto Attribute, too. You can find it on my blog here: www.starcoder.net/thumbnailphoto-tool

Yavuz, I'm a bit disappointed that your app won't even open if you are not running it on a computer that is a member of a domain. I wanted to try it out from my home PC against a test domain over a VPN.

hi, if we implement Outlook 2010 contact picture adding on Exch 2003, does anyone know what attribute in AD will the pics be stored?

Chris128, hello Chris thank you for your respond. The reason is, that the tool allows the current logged in user to change his photo or another persons /accounts photo in the ad. That emans the that it tries to connect top the ad with your current credentials. I will have a look for extending the application, so that you provide different credentials to connect to the ad. thank you. best regards Yavuz

Yavuz, yeah if it is a .NET application then it is pretty easy to bind to the domain with different credentials and also let the user specify a domain name themselves. In my AD Photo Edit application (www.cjwdev.co.uk/.../Info.html) I try to bind to the user's domain first but have an option to disable this and enter a domain name and credentials of your own - I think its a useful option personally but I guess the majority of people will be running this on the domain they actually want to work with anyway.

Abbas, it still uses the same AD attribute - thumbnailPhoto

Codez: Updates two attributes so that it also shows up in Cisco Unified Presence as well as Outlook 2010.

Cheers

form1.cs

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using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.DirectoryServices;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1

{

   public partial class Form1 : Form

   {

       public Form1()

       {

           InitializeComponent();

       }

       private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

       {

           AddPictureToUser("cn=" + txtUserName.Text + "," + txtLDAPString.Text, txtDomainController.Text, txtImageLocation.Text);

       }

       void AddPictureToUser(string strDN, string strDCName, string strFileName )

       {

           try

           {

               // Open file

               System.IO.FileStream inFile = new System.IO.FileStream(strFileName, System.IO.FileMode.Open, System.IO.FileAccess.Read);

               // Retrive Data into a byte array variable

               byte[] binaryData = new byte[inFile.Length];

               int bytesRead = inFile.Read(binaryData, 0, (int)inFile.Length);

               inFile.Close();

               inFile.Dispose();

               // Connect to AD

               System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry myUser = new System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry(@"LDAP://" + strDCName + @"/" + strDN);

               // Clear existing picture if exists

               if (myUser.Properties["jpegPhoto"] != null)

               {

                   myUser.Properties["jpegPhoto"].Clear();

               }

               // Update attribute with binary data from file

               myUser.Properties["jpegPhoto"].Add(binaryData);

               if (myUser.Properties["thumbnailPhoto"] != null)

               {

                   myUser.Properties["thumbnailPhoto"].Clear();

               }

               myUser.Properties["thumbnailPhoto"].Add(binaryData);

               myUser.CommitChanges();

               myUser.Close();

               myUser.Dispose();

               binaryData = null;

               MessageBox.Show("Done!");

           }

           catch (Exception ex)

           {

               MessageBox.Show("Error: " + ex.Message, "FUUUUU... You are doing it wr-", MessageBoxButtons.AbortRetryIgnore, MessageBoxIcon.Error);

           }

       }

       private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

       {

           ofd.ShowDialog();

           if (ofd.FileName.Length > 0)

           {

               this.txtImageLocation.Text = ofd.FileName;

               try

               {

                   this.panel1.BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile(ofd.FileName);

                   this.panel1.BackgroundImageLayout = ImageLayout.Stretch;

               }

               catch (Exception ex1)

               {

                   MessageBox.Show(ex1.ToString());

               }

           }

       }

   }

}

--------------------

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1

{

   partial class Form1

   {

       /// <summary>

       /// Required designer variable.

       /// </summary>

       private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

       /// <summary>

       /// Clean up any resources being used.

       /// </summary>

       /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>

       protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)

       {

           if (disposing && (components != null))

           {

               components.Dispose();

           }

           base.Dispose(disposing);

       }

       #region Windows Form Designer generated code

       /// <summary>

       /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify

       /// the contents of this method with the code editor.

       /// </summary>

       private void InitializeComponent()

       {

           this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

           this.txtUserName = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.txtImageLocation = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.label2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.label3 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.txtLDAPString = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.button2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

           this.ofd = new System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog();

           this.panel1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();

           this.label5 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.txtDomainController = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.SuspendLayout();

           //

           // button1

           //

           this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(423, 194);

           this.button1.Name = "button1";

           this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(75, 23);

           this.button1.TabIndex = 0;

           this.button1.Text = "Save!";

           this.button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;

           this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button1_Click);

           //

           // textBox1

           //

           this.txtUserName.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 73);

           this.txtUserName.Name = "textBox1";

           this.txtUserName.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 20);

           this.txtUserName.TabIndex = 1;

           this.txtUserName.Text = "Paul Adams";

           //

           // textBox2

           //

           this.txtImageLocation.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 167);

           this.txtImageLocation.Name = "textBox2";

           this.txtImageLocation.ReadOnly = true;

           this.txtImageLocation.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(229, 20);

           this.txtImageLocation.TabIndex = 2;

           this.txtImageLocation.Text = "pick a jpg";

           //

           // label1

           //

           this.label1.AutoSize = true;

           this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 57);

           this.label1.Name = "label1";

           this.label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(272, 13);

           this.label1.TabIndex = 3;

           this.label1.Text = "Users Name as it appears in active directory (and LDAP)";

           //

           // label2

           //

           this.label2.AutoSize = true;

           this.label2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 149);

           this.label2.Name = "label2";

           this.label2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(164, 13);

           this.label2.TabIndex = 4;

           this.label2.Text = "Location of Image (300x300 max)";

           //

           // label3

           //

           this.label3.AutoSize = true;

           this.label3.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 9);

           this.label3.Name = "label3";

           this.label3.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(156, 13);

           this.label3.TabIndex = 6;

           this.label3.Text = "LDAP Location of user account";

           //

           // textBox3

           //

           this.txtLDAPString.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 25);

           this.txtLDAPString.Name = "textBox3";

           this.txtLDAPString.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(264, 20);

           this.txtLDAPString.TabIndex = 5;

           this.txtLDAPString.Text = "ou=users,ou=corporate,dc=corp,dc=ad";

           //

           // button2

           //

           this.button2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(268, 165);

           this.button2.Name = "button2";

           this.button2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(28, 23);

           this.button2.TabIndex = 9;

           this.button2.Text = "...";

           this.button2.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;

           this.button2.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button2_Click);

           //

           // ofd

           //

           this.ofd.DefaultExt = "jpg";

           this.ofd.FileName = "Picture.jpg";

           this.ofd.InitialDirectory = "c:\\";

           //

           // panel1

           //

           this.panel1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Silver;

           this.panel1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(323, 12);

           this.panel1.Name = "panel1";

           this.panel1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(175, 175);

           this.panel1.TabIndex = 10;

           //

           // label5

           //

           this.label5.AutoSize = true;

           this.label5.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 101);

           this.label5.Name = "label5";

           this.label5.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(130, 13);

           this.label5.TabIndex = 12;

           this.label5.Text = "Random domain controller";

           //

           // textBox4

           //

           this.txtDomainController.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 117);

           this.txtDomainController.Name = "textBox4";

           this.txtDomainController.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 20);

           this.txtDomainController.TabIndex = 11;

           this.txtDomainController.Text = "DC03";

           //

           // Form1

           //

           this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);

           this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;

           this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(509, 226);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label5);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtDomainController);

           this.Controls.Add(this.panel1);

           this.Controls.Add(this.button2);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label3);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtLDAPString);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label2);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label1);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtImageLocation);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtUserName);

           this.Controls.Add(this.button1);

           this.Name = "Form1";

           this.Text = "Picture-ater Gizmo";

           this.ResumeLayout(false);

           this.PerformLayout();

       }

       #endregion

       private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtUserName;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtImageLocation;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label2;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label3;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtLDAPString;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Button button2;

       private System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog ofd;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Panel panel1;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label5;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtDomainController;

   }

}

{

   partial class Form1

   {

       /// <summary>

       /// Required designer variable.

       /// </summary>

       private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

       /// <summary>

       /// Clean up any resources being used.

       /// </summary>

       /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>

       protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)

       {

           if (disposing && (components != null))

           {

               components.Dispose();

           }

           base.Dispose(disposing);

       }

       #region Windows Form Designer generated code

       /// <summary>

       /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify

       /// the contents of this method with the code editor.

       /// </summary>

       private void InitializeComponent()

       {

           this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

           this.txtUserName = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.txtImageLocation = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.label2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.label3 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.txtLDAPString = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.button2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

           this.ofd = new System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog();

           this.panel1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();

           this.label5 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

           this.txtDomainController = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

           this.SuspendLayout();

           //

           // button1

           //

           this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(423, 194);

           this.button1.Name = "button1";

           this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(75, 23);

           this.button1.TabIndex = 0;

           this.button1.Text = "Save!";

           this.button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;

           this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button1_Click);

           //

           // textBox1

           //

           this.txtUserName.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 73);

           this.txtUserName.Name = "textBox1";

           this.txtUserName.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 20);

           this.txtUserName.TabIndex = 1;

           this.txtUserName.Text = "Paul Adams";

           //

           // textBox2

           //

           this.txtImageLocation.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 167);

           this.txtImageLocation.Name = "textBox2";

           this.txtImageLocation.ReadOnly = true;

           this.txtImageLocation.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(229, 20);

           this.txtImageLocation.TabIndex = 2;

           this.txtImageLocation.Text = "pick a jpg";

           //

           // label1

           //

           this.label1.AutoSize = true;

           this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 57);

           this.label1.Name = "label1";

           this.label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(272, 13);

           this.label1.TabIndex = 3;

           this.label1.Text = "Users Name as it appears in active directory (and LDAP)";

           //

           // label2

           //

           this.label2.AutoSize = true;

           this.label2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 149);

           this.label2.Name = "label2";

           this.label2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(164, 13);

           this.label2.TabIndex = 4;

           this.label2.Text = "Location of Image (300x300 max)";

           //

           // label3

           //

           this.label3.AutoSize = true;

           this.label3.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 9);

           this.label3.Name = "label3";

           this.label3.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(156, 13);

           this.label3.TabIndex = 6;

           this.label3.Text = "LDAP Location of user account";

           //

           // textBox3

           //

           this.txtLDAPString.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 25);

           this.txtLDAPString.Name = "textBox3";

           this.txtLDAPString.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(264, 20);

           this.txtLDAPString.TabIndex = 5;

           this.txtLDAPString.Text = "ou=users,ou=corporate,dc=corp,dc=ad";

           //

           // button2

           //

           this.button2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(268, 165);

           this.button2.Name = "button2";

           this.button2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(28, 23);

           this.button2.TabIndex = 9;

           this.button2.Text = "...";

           this.button2.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;

           this.button2.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button2_Click);

           //

           // ofd

           //

           this.ofd.DefaultExt = "jpg";

           this.ofd.FileName = "Picture.jpg";

           this.ofd.InitialDirectory = "c:\\";

           //

           // panel1

           //

           this.panel1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Silver;

           this.panel1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(323, 12);

           this.panel1.Name = "panel1";

           this.panel1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(175, 175);

           this.panel1.TabIndex = 10;

           //

           // label5

           //

           this.label5.AutoSize = true;

           this.label5.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(21, 101);

           this.label5.Name = "label5";

           this.label5.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(130, 13);

           this.label5.TabIndex = 12;

           this.label5.Text = "Random domain controller";

           //

           // textBox4

           //

           this.txtDomainController.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(35, 117);

           this.txtDomainController.Name = "textBox4";

           this.txtDomainController.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 20);

           this.txtDomainController.TabIndex = 11;

           this.txtDomainController.Text = "DC03";

           //

           // Form1

           //

           this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);

           this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;

           this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(509, 226);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label5);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtDomainController);

           this.Controls.Add(this.panel1);

           this.Controls.Add(this.button2);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label3);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtLDAPString);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label2);

           this.Controls.Add(this.label1);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtImageLocation);

           this.Controls.Add(this.txtUserName);

           this.Controls.Add(this.button1);

           this.Name = "Form1";

           this.Text = "Picture-ater Gizmo";

           this.ResumeLayout(false);

           this.PerformLayout();

       }

       #endregion

       private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtUserName;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtImageLocation;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label2;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label3;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtLDAPString;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Button button2;

       private System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog ofd;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Panel panel1;

       private System.Windows.Forms.Label label5;

       private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtDomainController;

   }

}

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