اضافه کردن ویژگی PHOTO به ACTIVEDIRECTORY
As you all know by now there are several areas you can elevate pictures from Active Directory. What I mean is that you can add a picture to the thumbnailphoto attribute in Active Directory and it will be displayed in Outlook (not only Outlook 2010: http://www.stevieg.org/tag/thumbnailphoto/ ) and Lync. You could also achieve this on SharePoint. But what you probably did not know is that you can also automate the process of setting a user tile picture (User picture) on the start menu on Windows7 clients reading the picture from Active Directory. I will explain the process.
First we need to add a picture to accounts in Active Directory. This can be achieved in many ways. One way is to use the dll from oLID: http://www.dewdney.co.uk/adext/adext.zip (readme inside zip file), another way is to use this tool: http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ADPhotoEdit/Info.html. A Third option is to use PowerShell. In order to import a picture using powershell you can use this code (you need Active directory modules):