SharePoint: User Profile and Picture url from Active Directory

I was trying to import Active Directory to MOSS 2007 and was looking at how to import pictures (employee photos) from AD. A little bit of googling landed me on a nice blog by Henry Ong - Importing user pictures from AD to MOSS 2007.

However, in SSP profile properties I didn't get the choice to map the extensionAttribute; didn't see the Data Source mapping option at all. To resolve that, figured that I needed the domain account that has access to AD to be the SSP's service account. Went to Central Administration > Operations > Service Accounts and modified the App Pool account running SSP to use the domain account. Restart IIS and it shows up!

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