New-UDAvatar Usage

PowerShell Universal Universal Dashboard
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Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 2.3.0

I have a dashboard set up that is authenticating users by using their $Credentials to read the domain. I also have a Published Folder that holds the thumbnailPhoto for every AD user. I was hoping I could use that Published Folder and the $Credentials.UserName to show the currently logged-in user’s AD photo as the avatar in the upper-right. I’ve seen mention of a New-UDAvatar cmdlet on the forum and a GitHub file, but nothing in the docs on how to get it working.

Was hoping something like this would do the trick, but I guess I don’t really know where to put it to make it work as expected.

New-UDAvatar -Image "/ADPhotos/$($User.UserName).jpg"

Any advice?

Thanks!

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I think $user is just the user name. Try: New-UDAvatar -Image “/ADPhotos/$($User).jpg”

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Yeah, that was my bad, still had that in the clipboard and didn’t double-check it. That displays my AD photo, just don’t know how to get it in the header as the avatar next to my username

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Thanks!

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2nd this

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We’ll have to put an enhancement in for this. There currently isn’t any way to configure that in the navigation bar.

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Understood, thank you! Do I need to open an issue on GitHub for this?

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I opened one already. Thanks!

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hi @MrAlexFranco how do you get the logged in user ID in the top right hand corner? I can’t find anything in the docs.

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That happens automatically for logged in dashboards but if you want to access the current user name, use $User.

More variables listed here: Dashboards - PowerShell Universal

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thanks, odd I don’t see this on any of my dashboards and they all have authentication.