Add User Pictures to Active Directory, Exchange

Running Active Directory in 2003 mode (with 2x 2003 and 2x 2008 servers) and Exchange 2010 in DAG.

http://www.codetwo.com/blog/codetwo-active-directory-photos-1-1-2-new-fields-in-filters/

Ran through and installed the above executable, ran with my domain admin credentials, but I could not get the pictures to show up in Outlook no matter what I did.

Finally figured out it is an issue with the offline address book – rebuilt on the Exchange side and no dice. But deleted the cached folders on my local machine and it worked fine. There’s also a registry key to help out:

Close Outlook
Delete everything in C:\users\yourusername\appdata\microsoft\outlook\ofline address books\
Open Outlook
Profit

Registry key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Cached Mode]
“DownloadOAB”=dword:00000000
Either create the key “Cached Mode” and then the 32bit dword “DownloadOAB” as 0 or save the above as a .reg file and then run that.

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