How to save a user picture in Active Directory with vbScript?

Aug 12, 2011

Active Directory offers the possibility to save pictures in a user’s object. These pictures can then be used in Outlook, Sharepoint or even self-written applications. Here is how you can do it: This function will read a picture resource from a url (szUrl) and...

How to set the Windows 7 user account picture programmatically?

Aug 12, 2011

Windows 7 offers the possibility to show small user account pictures, for example in the start menu or on the lock screen. Since there is no documented way of setting this picture programmatically here is a solution for developing a small application that can do this...

Collecting information

Aug 9, 2011

Today I had a talk to our Microsoft Technical Account Manager. He will prepare some information on the masters program for me and send it over in the next weeks. Let’s see what it is all about…
How it began.

How it began.

May 27, 2011

In April 2011 I completed my MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008. When I saw the Microsoft “Chart your Career – IT Professional” – Poster (© 2010 Microsoft Corporation) I thought there has to be more than that. 3 weeks of...