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 […]

Now that I’m well under way with my Exchange 2007 migration I figured it’d be a good time to test the new Exchange recovery process. To cut a long story short, it’s a long process as most of the functionality is via Powershell rather than the Exchange Management Console. Anyway, here’s a quick guide. 1. […]