Update your Active Directory Picture – Free Tool

A cool tool (AD Photo Edit) which you can use to update your profile picture and have the picture displayed on your Lync Online home page or SharePoint site. This beautiful tool uploads a picture into the thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active Directory user properties.

This information is then synchronized with the Cloud through the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool. You can download the AD Photo Edit from here. Once the tool is installed AD Photo Edit automatically detects and connects to your Active Directory. If you want to upload the domain users photo, you need to have administrative credential. Users are selected by using their “username”. There are free edition, which upload photos individually and bulk edition which is a paid edition.

When you update the photo, your user properties will be filled with values as show in the picture below, (If you already attach a picture, this tool will display the existing picture and you can change it with the new one). if there are no picture attached to your profile, this field will show as <not set>.

Enjoy!!!

Microsoft’s Offers Users Enhanced Office 365 for Less than a Happy Meal

Office 365 is a software and services offering from Microsoft that includes Microsoft Office and cloud-based access to Exchange, SharePoint and the software formerly known as Communications Server — Lync. By Josette Rigsby on CMS Wire  has more on this…read here. Also for other O365 plan, click here

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Online energy monitoring – Pulse Controller

Now i’m able to veiw our entire office power consumption and my data centre power consumption. The beauty is that..this gives me zone wise details 24/7…. What a beauty!!!

Implementation cost : Less

Above shows the cost in AED/Dirhams and the consumption of 3Phase line in details…what an ease of monitoring.

This is the controller that does the magic.

More Info…click here

PREMNAIR’S BLOG – Word Press 2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

I wish you a very Happy & Prosperous New year…2012

I wish all my readers a very happy and prosperous new year ahead. I thank you for your support and advice.

-PREMNAIR

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.

• Flexible and reliable – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company’s unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
• Anywhere access – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
• Protection and compliance – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company’s communications and meeting regulatory requirements.

Before you install Exchange Server 2010 SP2, we recommend that you review the summary of system requirements and technical information located in the Exchange Server 2010 Technical Documentation Library.

You can download Exchange server 2010 SP2 from Microsoft Download Centre

Exchange Server 2010 site page

40th anniversary of the birth of the United Arab Emirates

 40 years ago, seven emirates became one nation. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the United Arab Emirates.

I sincerely wish the UAE a happy 40th national day, and many more to come.

-Prem Nair

Nokia Lumia 800 – First Windows Phone 7.5

I Really Love it!!!

The Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone is the first Nokia smartphone to have Windows Phone 7.5. Its beautiful design is a head-turner. Simpler social networking keeps you connected to those who matter. Internet Explorer 9 gives you quicker browsing – plus the web like it is on your PC. And with a Carl Zeiss lens and 8-megapixel camera, you’ll shoot better photos and video.

Lumia 800 is a “refinement” of the N9 – Seamless design: Curved 3.7″ AMOLED ClearBlack glass touchscreen display seamlessly integrated into a smooth one-piece body…People Hub: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, Chat, SMS…Browser: Bing, Internet Explorer 9, HTML5, Wi-Fi…Camera: 8 MP Auto Focus with Carl Zeiss Optics, 2x LED Flash and HD Video

Extra features

• Micro SIM
• Nokia Maps
• Bing Maps
• Flight Mode
• Nokia Drive
• Nokia Music
• 2 Microphones
• 3D Accelerometer
• Proximity sensor
• Ambient light sensor
• Application Highlights
• Nokia Contacts Transfer
• Compass (Magnetometer Sensor

Operating band

• GSM 850
• GSM 900
• GSM 1800
• GSM 1900
• WCDMA Band V (850)
• WCDMA Band I (2100)
• WCDMA Band II (1900)
• WCDMA Band VIII (900)

Reviews like it has a slightly smaller screen due to the intrusion of the Windows Phone Button, only 512 MB RAM, only 16GB onboard storage, No NFC etc etc etc

But rumours that Nokia is working on Windows Phone 8 – (aka Apollo)!!!

Completing 2 years – PREMNAIR’S blog!!!

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Enjoy

-PREMNAIR