Exchange 2010 introduces the thumbnailPhoto attribute for user accounts, allowing you to have photos of staff displayed in Outlook 2010 (or 2007 if you have the social connector installed). Here’s a quick powershell snippet to find accounts that don’t already have a photo set: Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=Staff,DC=nwtraders,DC=msft” -properties thumbnailPhoto | ? […]

Earlier this year I set about simplifying the user account creation process for the company I work for. Previously when someone joined the company the user account creation was a manual process. Some of the tasks we manually undertook were: Create the account and Exchange mailbox; Set relevant attributes (Job Title, Office Address etc); Enable […]

If you haven’t heard, most of the commenting accounts on Gawker Media sites have been compromised. A copy of their database, including MD5 hashed e-mail addresses and DES hashed passwords has been published. If like me, you’re concerned people in your organisation may have been effected here’s a quick script which will provide hashes for […]