Set Profile Pictures

Question

We are currently setting up a Sharepoint 2013 environment within our company. We also want our users to benefit from the MySites. In order to keep the stress on the server on launch day at a minimum and to make it easier for the users, we would like to set
a profile picture of each user on their MySite.
Since we have 2000+ users doing this manually isn't really an option. We've been looking for a script that lets us set a picture for each user but haven't been really successful.
In the ideal setting is that we would have a list of all users (CSV file?) and a picture of each user in a folder on one of our Sharepoint servers so they could be imported. Importing pictures from AD for us isn't an option since we don't store pictures
there.
Is there any script or CMDlet that lets us achieve this goal? The closest we have come is displaying a list of users that have (or don't have) a picture associated with them:
# Dynamic Settings
$mySiteUrl = "https://mysite.domain.com"
$findProperty = "PictureUrl"
# Obtain Context based on site
$mySiteHostSite = Get-SPSite $mySiteUrl
$mySiteHostWeb = $mySiteHostSite.OpenWeb()
$context = Get-SPServiceContext $mySiteHostSite
# Obtain Profiles from the Profile Manager
$profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context)
$AllProfiles = $profileManager.GetEnumerator()
$outputCollection = @()
# Loop through profiles and retrieve the desired property
foreach ($profile in $AllProfiles)
$output = New-Object System.Object
$output | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name AccountName -Value $profile["AccountName"].ToString()
$output | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -Name $findProperty -Value $profile[$findProperty]
$outputCollection += $output
# List all Accounts that do not contain the property
$outputCollection | Where-Object {[bool]$_.($findProperty) -ne $false}
(credits for the script go to to
Steve Mann)
Thanks in advance ... and if anything is unclear (english isn't my first language) just ask :-)
Simon ter Veen

Answer 1

There's loads of scripts around that try to do that. This one is my favourite.
http://get-spscripts.com/2010_12_01_archive.html