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AD Photos updated

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Now your users can put a face to a name by using Outlook 2010, one of many great new feature in Outlook 2010 is the ability to view a small photo of other users. This is done by reading the photo from Active Directory, the thumbnailPhoto attribute has been available in Active Directory since Windows 2000 but no Microsoft products (that I know of!) have used it until now.

With AD Photos we’ve created a simple but incredibly useful tool for importing single and multiple photos into Active Directory, you can view existing photos stored in AD and remove them if needed. The ability to import photos in bulk is very useful if you’re planning on making the most of Outlook 2010 and adding a photo of all your users to AD.

AD Photos Screenshot

AD Photos Screenshot

We’ve just updated AD Photos to version 1.5.1, read more about AD Photos and download the trial version by clicking the URL below.
http://www.dovestones.com/products/Active_Directory_jpegPhoto_thumbnailPhoto.asp

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Using AD Bulk Users to update Exchange Storage Limits

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

In the latest build of AD Bulk Users we’ve added support setting the Exchange Storage Limits, these limits are stored in the attributes mDBStorageQuota (Issue warning at), mDBOverQuotaLimit (Prohibit send at) and mDBOverHardQuotaLimit (Prohibit send and receive at).

Exchange Storage Limits

The check box ‘Use mailbox store defaults’ shown above is toggled on and off using the attribute mDBUseDefaults, so to set non default storage limit we need to set mDBUseDefaults to FALSE. If you want to turn the default storage limits back on just set mDBUseDefaults to TRUE in the CSV file.

Below is an example CSV file that would set ‘Prohibit send and receive at (KB):’ to 1Gb, 2GB and 3GB for the 3 users in the file. The sAMAccountName is the users logon name and is used to locate the user in Active Directory, the Modify column tells the program we are modifying an existing user.

Storage Limits CSV

In my example above a 1Gb quota may be too low for some, if a user receives 100 x 50k messages a day for 30 days this would consume 150MB, or 1.8GB over a year.

All the best.

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Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy?

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

When importing new users (or modifying existing users) with an Exchange mailbox  you may not want to have the Exchange recipient policy update the e-mail addresses for those users, by default when AD Bulk Users creates the mailbox ‘Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy’ is checked i.e. TRUE, to prevent this being set add a column to your CSV file entitled AutoUpdateOnRecipientPolicy and set the value to FALSE.

Click here for an example CSV file.

The result of setting AutoUpdateOnRecipientPolicy to FALSE is ‘Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy’ is unchecked meaning the recipient policy won’t update the mailbox for the user.

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All the best.

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Append, Drop and Truncate with AD Bulk Export 3.0.7.2

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

This latest release of AD Bulk Export includes a couple of minor bug fixes and a change to the way saving to a SQL database can be done. Two new command line arguments have been added, these are /dropTable and /truncateTable, you can also enable these options via the GUI in the  ‘Options’ section of the ‘Save to Database’ window.

By default the data pulled from Active Directory will be appended to the table this can now be changed by using the command line arguments /dropTable or /truncateTable or by selecting either of  the two options in the GUI. By checking ‘Drop table first’ the program will delete the table and then recreate the table before inserting the data pulled from Active Directory. Checking ‘Truncate table first’ will delete the table rows but leave the columns intact, this is especially useful if you are going to add custom columns. Both options are retained when the program is closed and reopened.

AD Bulk Export, Saving to SQL

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AD Find and Replace 1.9.5 New Features

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

We’ve added a few new features to AD Find and Replace, the first is called ‘Replace within N characters’, this allows you to perform a replace only with the first N number of characters or the last N number of characters. This is especially useful for replacing numbers within telephone numbers, as the screen shot below shows. For example if we want to replace the area code 044 with 043 for each user in a selected OU or Group then we can check ‘Replace within N characters’ and set the ‘Replace within the First’ value to 3, this will tell the program to only replace 044 with 043 when a match is found within the first 3 characters. Now without this feature we run the risk of changing a telephone number that contains 044 anywhere in the number, for example 043 12044044 would be updated to 043 12044044 which is not what we want. We can now replace 044 only if it is within the first 3 characters if a match is not found then it will be left alone. We can also replace in the last N characters. I’m sure you’ll agree a worth while addition.

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The second new feature is the ability to Active Directory as a different user, this has been available in our other programs for some time but was need in AD Find and Replace.

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The final update is the ability to insert wild cards (variables) into the ‘Replace with’ text box. The wild cards read the value of another attribute and insert that value into the attribute you are working with. Wild cards aren’t new and have been included with the program since version 1 but unless you read the help file you may not know they existed so we’ve added the the wild card list to the GUI so you can easily see the wild cards available.

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