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LYNC 2010 & 2013 USERS PHOTO

SOURCE LOCATIONS
Lync Server 2010 was the first version of Microsoft Communication and
Collaboration Server product offered a feature that displays user photos in
the contact list. Prior to this, older Communication and Collaboration
products such as Live Communications Server 2005 and Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 did not offer this feature.
SCREENSHOT OF OFFICE COMMUNICATOR CLIENT
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Lync 2010 allows user to view photos of their contacts and to make their
own photos available to other users.
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT SHOWING USER PHOTOS IN
THE CONTACT LIST
LYNC SERVER 2010 PHOTO SOURCES

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 was the first Unified Communication and
Collaboration product to provide ability for users to view photos of their
contacts and to make their own photos available to other users inside or
outside of their organization.
LYNC 2010 PHOTO LOCATIONS

In Lync 2010, there are two options to choose from where the user photo
is stored, as part of the user's thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active
Directory referred as Default corporate picture
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED TO SHOW USER PHOTO FROM THUMBNAILPHOTO
ATTRIBUTE IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY REFERRED AS DEFAULT CORPORATE PICTURE
or a photo from URL configured by the user known as Show picture

from web address.
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED TO SHOW PICTURE
FROM WEB ADDRESS SHOW PICTURE FROM WEB ADDRESS
NOTE: IF THE CONTACT PHOTOS ARE STORED IN ADDS BE ADVISED OF

THE FOLLOWING:
The supported photo size for photos stored in thumbnailPhoto
attribute in Active Directory is up 9696 pixels and image size
cannot be more than 100KB
By default, any user has permission to change their own ADDS
thumbnail attribute
ADDS hosted photo will not be seen by external/federated contacts
Large enterprises should consider the impact on ADDS DB size
ADDS photos will not meet all the resolution requirements that Lync
will leverage
NOTE: IF THE CONTACT PHOTOS ARE REFERENCED VIA WEB ADDRESS,
BE ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING:
External/federated contacts will be able to see the user photo
The size limit is dictated by the MaxPhotoSizeKB attribute in the
Lync Client policy the default value of the above attribute is 30KB
You are not restricted in image resolution outside the
MaxPtohoSizeKB limit
Both of the above options Default corporate picture and Show
picture from web address offered by Lync 2010 impose serious
limitation with respect to size and resolution of the photos as listed in the
Table below:
PHOTO SOURCE SIZE IN PIXELS SIZE IN KB
thumbnailPhoto up to 96 x 96
up to 100
web address
up to 100 (default limit is
up to 96 x 96
30KB)
The thumbnailPhoto Active Directory attribute is the same source that is
used by Microsoft Outlook 2010 Client and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
to display the user's Photo in Microsoft Outlook 2010. This attribute stores
a binary representation of the Photo.
Lync 2010 client does not offer a direct method of uploading a picture to
the thumbnailPhoto attribute. The following alternatives are available for
photo upload to Lync 2010 client as listed in Table below:
LYNC 2010 CLIENT PHOTO
UPLOAD OPTIONS
ACCESS LEVEL PRIVILEGE

REQUIRED
Microsoft SharePoint Server
User: User can use Microsoft SharePoint

Server 2010 to upload the photo to My Site
and then configure profile synchronization in

SharePoint Server 2010 to synchronize the
photo to the thumbnailPhoto attribute in
Active Directory.
Photo stored on publicly accessible URL User: Users can configure their picture by
specifying a publicly accessible URL for the
Photo that they want to use. The photo must
be publically accessible without a password.
The specified photo web address is
transferred to other users through the

contact card category in the presence
information. When Lync 2010 needs to
display the photo, it retrieves the photo from
the received URL.
Exchange PowerShell
Administrator: Systems Administrator can

use Exchange Management Shell in
Exchange Server 2010 to the thumbnailPhoto
attribute in Active Directory.
Third party tools
User: User can use a third party tool to

upload only their own photo to the
thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active Directory.
NOTE: Importing photo(s) into ADDS using Exchange 2010 PowerShell

cmdlet Import-RecipientDataProperty will impose photo upload size
limit of 10KB. There are third party tools available that will allow to
overcome the Exchange PowerShell limitation of 10KB for photo upload
and will allow an upload of photo up to 100KB which is the actual ADDS
photo limit imposed by thumbnailphoto attribute.
MANAGING USERS PHOTO VIA CSCLIENTPOLICY

Lync Server 2010 uses the CsClientPolicy to manage and configure the
client side settings. The configured policy settings are sent to clients
through in-band provisioning. The two CsClientPolicy parameters that
control the user photo experience are DisplayPhoto and
MaxPhotoSizeKB. The corresponding in-band provisioning parameter for
DisplayPhoto is called PhotoUsage and for MaxPhotoSizeKB is the

same name, they are transferred in the endpointConfiguration
provisionGroup.
DisplayPhoto controls how photos are displayed in the client. The
available resource options are listed in the Table below:
VALUE OF DISPLAYPHOTO PHOTO ORIGIN
NoPhoto
N/A
PhotoFromADOnly
Active Directory
AllPhotos
URL Defined
EXAMPLE
MaxPhotoSizeKB controls the maximum size in KB of the user photo.

Lync 2010 Client provides the following photo configuration options as
listed in the Table below:
CLIENT VERSION AVAILABLE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Lync 2010
Do not show my picture

Default corporate picture
Show Picture from web address
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED NOT

TO SHOW USER PICTURE DO NOT SHOW PICTURE
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED TO SHOW USER PHOTO FROM THUMBNAILPHOTO
ATTRIBUTE IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY REFERRED AS DEFAULT CORPORATE PICTURE
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED TO SHOW PICTURE

FROM WEB ADDRESS SHOW PICTURE FROM WEB ADDRESS
SERVER/CLIENT PHOTO DOWNLOAD MANAGEMENT

Lync 2010 Server and Client are using cache to avoid unnecessary
download of users photos. The download of photos does not depend on
the address book availability setting of AddressBookAvailability in the
CsClientPolicy, because photos are not stored in the GalContacts.db
database. Lync 2010 client queries the Server by using the Address Book
Web Query (ABWQ) to retrieve photos. The queries include three
attributes as listed in the Table below:
QUERY ATTRIBUTE NAME QUERY ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTION
PhotoHash
Contains the hashed value of the photo

binary data and is used to determine if the
current photo has changed.
PhotoRelPath
Contains the relative path to the actual

photo stored on the server.
PhotoSize
The size of the photo in bytes.
CLIENT SIDE PHOTO DOWNLOAD MANAGEMENT TRANSACTION STEPS
OVERVIEW SHOWN IN THE TABLE BELOW:
STEP: 1
Lync 2010 Client sends query to the Server asking the Address Book
Web Query (ABWQ) to return the values for the following attribute
sets: PhotoRelPath, PhotoSize, and PhotoHash.
STEP: 2
Lync 2010 Client checks the returned attribute values against the attribute
values the client obtained from in-band provisioning previously and if the
values are different, it retrieves the photo of the signed-in user by using
an HTTP GET request.
STEP: 3
Lync 2010 Client caches the photo of the signed-in user locally. The client
also store the attribute values for PhotoRelPath, PhotoSize,
PhotoHash and Timestamp.
STEP: 4
Lync client checks with the Lync Server by default every 24 hours from
the time client caches the user photo, asking the Lync Server to compare
the Client cached User PhotoHash value with Servers cached User
PhotoHash value. The values provided by the Server allows the Lync
Client to determinate if the user photo has changed and if the photo did
change than the Lync Client update its cache with the new user photo and
resets the timestamp.
When Lync 2010 client determines that it needs a photo, it issues a search
request to the Lync Server. In the search request, it asks Address Book
Web Query (ABWQ) to return a set of attributes including
PhotoRelPath, PhotoSize, and PhotoHash.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE RETURNED ATTRIBUTES:
<Attribute>
<Name>PhotoRelPath</Name>
<Value>efa6096aed2746cb9ab2037f7dbdde9d.f2eeeb5946db54a7
aa607ecd3ae09d
95.photo</Value>
<Values
xmlns:d6p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"
i:nil="true" />
</Attribute>
<Attribute>
<Name>PhotoHash</Name>
<Value>f2eeeb5946db54a7aa607ecd3ae09d95</Value>
<Values
xmlns:d6p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"
i:nil="true" />
</Attribute>
<Attribute>
<Name>PhotoSize</Name>
<Value>4620</Value>
<Valuesxmlns:d6p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization
/Arrays"
i:nil="true" />
</Attribute>
The Lync Client checks the PhotoSize returned against the
MaxPhotoSizeKB it obtained from in-band provisioning. If the
PhotoSize multiplied by 1024 is less or equal to MaxPhotoSizeKB, the
client will retrieve the photo by using an HTTP GET request using the URL
https://<absInternalServerUrl>"/"<PhotoRelPath> or
https://<absExternalServerUrl>"/"<PhotoRelPath>, where the base URLs,
https://<absInternalServerUrl> and https://<absExternalUrl>, are
obtained through in-band provisioning.
The client then caches the photo of the signed-in user locally. The client
store the PhotoRelPath, PhotoSize, and PhotoHash in the cached
Address Book Service (ABS) entry for the user. It also stores a
timestamp that indicates when the photo was downloaded from the Lync
Server. This cached data is located
in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Communicator\sip_<SIP
URI>\ABS_<SIP URI>.cache.
To avoid downloading the user photo every time, Lync client needs to use
the photo, the photo is cached. Lync Client checks with the Lync Server by
default every 24 hours from the time the client caches the user photo, by
sending a request to the Server asking to compare the Clients cached User
PhotoHash value with Servers cached User PhotoHash value. The
results allow the Client to determinate if the user photo has changed and if
the user photo did, change than the Lync Client will update its cache with
the new user photo and will resets the timestamp.
ADDRESS BOOK SERVICE PHOTO MANAGEMENT TRANSACTION STEPS

OVERVIEW SHOWN IN THE TABLE BELOW:
STEP: 1
Lync Client sends the ContactId and the PhotoHash value of the user
photo in the search request to the Address Book Service.
STEP: 2
Address Book Service (ABS) receives a request for a photo from a
client, and checks if it already has the photo in its cache. If the received
PhotoHash value does not match the hash value in the filename the
ABS get the photo from the closest Global Catalog Server.
STEP: 3
Address Book Service (ABS) then computes the hash, stores the photo
in the cache, and returns the values of PhotoHash, PhotoRelPath, and
PhotoSize to the client.
STEP: 4
Lync Client then update its cache with the new user photo and resets the
timestamp.
STEP: 5
Address Book Service (ABS) then deletes all cached photos within the
scheduled nightly maintenance window.
On the Server side, the Address Book Service (ABS) is responsible for
handling photos. The component responsible for this functionality is in
ABWQ and is exposed through the Distribution List Expansion (DLX)
web service. The Server uses a cache to limit the load on the Active
Directory Global Catalog Servers when requesting photos read from the
thumbnailPhoto attribute.
When the Address Book Service (ABS) receives a request for a photo
from a client, it first checks if it already has the photo in its cache. The
photos are cached in the same folder as the address book files, <Lync
Server filestore>\<WebServer Service
Id>\ABFiles\<GUID>\<GUID>. It is the folder with all zeroes in the
GUID. The photos are stored as individual files with filenames in the
format: <ContactId>.<PhotoHash>.photo
The ContactId is an internal identifier for the user that is used by both
client and server. To determine which user this ContactId corresponds to,
dump the ABS database by using the abserver.exe tool: abserver dump <abs file>. The output provides the correlation between the
ContactId with the corresponding user identified by the value of the
msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress attribute. The tool is part of Lync
Server 2010 and is located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Lync Server
2010\Server\Core.
The client sends the ContactId and the PhotoHash value of the photo in
the search request to the server. If this PhotoHash value matches the
hash value in the filename, <ContactId>.<PhotoHash>.photo, ABS
returns the PhotoRelPath value to the file,
<ContactId>.<PhotoHash>.photo, because the picture has not
changed.
If this PhotoHash value does not match the hash value in the
corresponding filename or the photo has not yet been cached, the ABS will
get the photo from the local Active Directory Global Catalog.
ABS then computes the hash, stores the photo in the cache, and returns
the values of PhotoHash, PhotoRelPath, and PhotoSize to the client.
Address Book Service (ABS) deletes all cached photos in the nightly
maintenance window. Check Event ID 21056 in the event log and look
for "Number of cached photos deleted". This means that it can take up
to 24 hours before changed photos appear in the photo cache. To expedite
this process delete the cached photo for the given user or issue the
PowerShell command Update-CsAddressBook. Photos Referenced in
Presence Information also contains hash value. Lync 2010 uses that hash
value to determine if it needs to get a new photo for a given user. The
difference between a photo referenced in presence information and photo
stored in Active Directory is that Lync 2010 is automatically notified of
changes to the photo configuration through the presence information.
Lync 2010 displays low-resolution user photos, because the photo sources
used by Lync 2010 impose a size limitation on stored photos. Lync 2010
does not offer support for High Definition Photos.
NOTE: The High Definition Photos feature requires the users Mailbox to
be located on Exchange 2013 and the users Lync account to be part of
Lync Server 2013 pool. If those conditions are not satisfied, the user
always will use the thumbnailPhoto attribute from ADDS or Show
picture from web address.
LYNC SERVER 2013 HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTO

One of the key user experiences that separates the Lync 2013 from its
predecessors is the visual experience produced by enhanced support for
High-Resolution Photo. While photos were available in the previous version
of Lync, there were serious limitations on the photo sizes and photo
resolution, imposed by the photo source location.
NEW PHOTO SOURCE LOCATION INTRODUCED IN LYNC

2013
Lync Server 2013 introduced a new photo source location the users
mailbox, this new feature allows the users photo to be stored in the
users mailbox located on Exchange Server 2013 and therefore eliminates
the previously imposed photo limitations and provides support for HighResolution Photos of up to 648 pixels by 648 pixels and up to 20 MB photo
size. The new feature greatly enhance the user photo experience in all
Lync Services that are using photo. The High-Resolution Photo feature
requires the user mailbox to be located on Exchange Server 2013. The
main reason for this requirement is the ability of Lync 2013 and Exchange
2013 to use and benefit from the new authorization framework technology
included in Lync 2013, Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 called Oath.
Oath is an open standard for authorization. The implementation of this new
feature in Microsoft Office family of Server Products made possible the
introduction of very valuable new features such as Unified Contact Store
(UCS) and High-Resolution Photo support, which itself provides
compelling reasons for deploying these products together.
If Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 are not used then the available options
are restricted to the previously offered by Lync Server 2010 photo source
locations, thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active Directory and web
address photo hosting solutions only, but as before those two options
offer serious limitation with respect to size and resolution of the photos.
Referencing a user photo via a web address option is still available in
Lync 2013, but is not enabled by default as it is in Lync 2010 Client.
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2013 CLIENT SHOWING THE DEFAULT PICTURE OPTIONS THE
SHOW PICTURE FROM A WEB SITE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE BY DEFAULT.
The Show picture from a web site becomes available on Lync 2013
Client after the Administrator enables the option via Lync PowerShell. To
enable Show picture from a web site on Lync 2013 client, two
conditions must be satisfied:
Lync 2013 client must run a minimum update from September 2013.
Administrator must enable it via Client Policy by running the Lync
PowerShell command as shown below:
$pe=New-CsClientPolicyEntry -Name EnablePresencePhotoOptions -Value
True
$po=Get-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global
$po.PolicyEntry.Add($pe)
Set-CsClientPolicy -Instance $po
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2013 CLIENT SHOWING SHOW PICTURE FROM A WEB SITE OPTION AVAILABLE
AFTER ENABLEPRESENCEPHOTOOPTIONS POLICY IS ENABLED BY AN ADMINISTRATOR.
When the users photo is uploaded to users mailbox, Exchange 2013 will
automatically create lower resolution photos to support all client
applications, additionally will also update the users photos in ADDS.
The pixel resolutions supported ranges are from 4848 to 648648. Out
of these, only three are used and they are listed in the Table below:
RESOLUTION APPLICATION
4848
thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active Directory
9696
Microsoft Outlook 2013 Web App, Microsoft Outlook 2013
648648
Lync Client 2013 and Microsoft Lync 2013 Web App
Any Exchange 2013 mailbox enabled user is allow to upload their own
High-Resolution Photo via Outlook Web Access, or through the Lync 2013
client options menu. The recommended photo sizes for an Exchange 2013
User Mailbox hosted photo are listed in the Table below:
PHOTO SIZE PHOTO COLOR DEPTH IMAGE SIZE IN MB
FILE FORMAT
648 x 648
JPEG
24
20
Each JPEG photo with a size of 648 x 648 and a depth of 24 bits results
in a file size of approximately 240 kilobytes. That means approximately 1
MB of disk space for every four photos.
SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2013 CLIENT
WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTO
It is important to note when an image is uploaded to a user mailbox; a
4848 pixels thumbnailPhoto copy will also be placed in ADDS
overwriting any existing 9696 pixels photos that were previously there.
This matters only if there are existing Lync 2010 legacy clients because the
legacy clients will still reference ADDS for their contact photos.
Uploading High-Resolution Photo to the users mailbox located on
Exchange 2013 will improve the users picture quality and the user
experience for all Lync Services and for all Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013
users. In an environment consisting of Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 and
Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 the legacy user experience will actually
deteriorate because their original Photo of 9696 pixels they had in
ADDS was replaced by the new 4848 thumbnailPhoto due to the fact
that the HD User Photo was uploaded to the user Mailbox which resulted of
creating a new 4848 thumbnail images replacing the existing 9696
user photo. If is necessary particular users to continue using legacy
clients, than re-import 9696 photos in ADDS for those users after the
HD User Photos upload is completed for optimal legacy Client photo
experience.
Regardless of which implementation method is used for the contact photos,
overriding control rests with the Lync Client Policy that is applied to the
users. There are two policy settings that control the user photo experience
and they are listed in the Table below:
POLICY NAME
CsClientPolicy -DisplayPhoto
POLICY DESCRIPTION
Controls the Photo Source used to
display the user Photo
CsClientPolicy -MaxPhotoSizeKB Controls the Maximum Photo Size in
KB. The default value of this policy is
set to 30KB
If a new photo was uploaded, but the old ADDS photo is displayed instead
of the glossy HD User Photo, the reason for that is most likely the Lync
Client Policy is set to PhotosFromAdOnly. By default, the Global Lync
2013 Client Policy will allow all photos, if it is not modified.
The second setting of importance is the -MaxPhotoSizeKB attribute. This
most commonly affects environments where there is use of web
address source based photos. Exchange 2013-hosted images are not
affected by this policy setting.
This policy dictates the maximum size of a photo and has a default value
limit of 30KB. The default value of 30KB can be change by using the Lync
PowerShell command listed below:
Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global -MaxPhotoSizeKB 100
(-MaxPhotoSizeKB must be numeric value)
SUMMARY
SERVER SIDE LIMITATIONS
The High-Definition User Photo feature requires the User Mailbox to
be located on Exchange 2013 and the User Lync account to be in Lync
2013 Pool.
High-Definition User Photo feature is not supported in an environment
where Lync Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2010 are used.
where Exchange Server 2010 and Lync Server 2013 are used.
where Lync Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2013 are used.
Users with Mailboxes on Exchange 2010 will always use the
thumbnailPhoto attribute from ADDS as their user Photo source.
Users with Mailboxes on Exchange 2013 and Lync Client account located
in Lync Server 2010 Pool will always use the thumbnailPhoto attribute
from ADDS as their user Photo source.
SOURCE LOCATION LIMITATIONS

thumbnailPhoto attribute from ADDS hosted photo will not be available
to external/federated contacts.
If the user contact photos are hosted in thumbnailPhoto attribute the
photo limits are up to 9696 pixels and no more than 100KB of photo
size.
User Photo source set to Show picture from a web site will allow
external/federated contacts to see the user photo.
User contact photo hosted in the users mailbox located on Exchange
2013 and the Lync Client is part of Lync 2013 Pool the High-Definition
User Photo feature is supported and the maximum allowed photo size is
648648 pixels with a color depth of 24 bits and up to 20MB image size.
CLIENT POLICY CONTROLLING THE PHOTO

CsClientPolicy -DisplayPhoto | No Photo | PhotoFromADOnly | AllPhotos
CsClientPolicy MaxPhotoSizeKB - Controls the Maximum Photo Size in KB.
The default value of this policy is set to 30KB
LYNC CLIENT SIDE PHOTO OPTIONS

Lync 2010 client offers the following default user photo source
options under "My Picture"
Do not show my picture

Default corporate picture
Show picture from web address
Lync 2010 client does not offer the user direct method to upload a picture
Lync 2010 client checks with the Lync Server by default every 24 hours
from the time Lync client caches the user photo for Photo updates.
Lync 2013 Client offers the following default user photo source
options under My Picture
Hide my picture
Show my picture
Edit or Remove Picture
NOTE: Show picture from a web site it is not default picture option
in Lync 2013 Client, this option becomes available only if Lync 2013 Client
runs a minimum update from September 2013 and it must be enable by
an Administrator via Lync PowerShell by setting the
EnablePresencePhotoOptions policy value to true.
Lync 2013 client offers direct method to upload user Photo via Lync Client
Options or Outlook Web App.
If connectivity between Lync Server and Exchange Server are lost, the
users thumbnailPhoto will be displayed, to internal Users only, and will
results of showing low-resolution photo.
High-Resolution Photo 648648 is shown only in Lync 2013 Client and
the Microsoft Lync 2013 Web App Services.
High Resolution User Photos will appear in Lync 2013 meetings when an
active.
Speaker does not have video enabled. Also moving the mouse over
thumbnail.
Photo in the gallery will display the High-Resolution Photo.
APPLICATIONS ABLE TO ACCESS THE USER PHOTO FROM

USERS EXCHANGE 2013 MAILBOX
MAX RESOLUTION APPLICATION
96 X 96 PIXELS
Outlook 2013 Web App, Microsoft Outlook 2013
648 X 648 PIXELS
Lync Client 2013 & Microsoft Lync 2013 Web App

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LYNC SERVER 2010 PHOTO SOURCES

LYNC 2010 PHOTO LOCATIONS

or a photo from URL configured by the user known as Show picture

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NOTE: IF THE CONTACT PHOTOS ARE STORED IN ADDS BE ADVISED OF

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up to 100 (default limit is

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ACCESS LEVEL PRIVILEGE

Microsoft SharePoint Server

User: User can use Microsoft SharePoint

and then configure profile synchronization in

transferred to other users through the

Administrator: Systems Administrator can

Third party tools

User: User can use a third party tool to

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NOTE: Importing photo(s) into ADDS using Exchange 2010 PowerShell

MANAGING USERS PHOTO VIA CSCLIENTPOLICY

DisplayPhoto is called PhotoUsage and for MaxPhotoSizeKB is the

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MaxPhotoSizeKB controls the maximum size in KB of the user photo.

Do not show my picture

SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED NOT

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SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED TO SHOW PICTURE

SERVER/CLIENT PHOTO DOWNLOAD MANAGEMENT

Contains the hashed value of the photo

Contains the relative path to the actual

The size of the photo in bytes.

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ADDRESS BOOK SERVICE PHOTO MANAGEMENT TRANSACTION STEPS

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picture from web address.

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LYNC SERVER 2013 HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTO

NEW PHOTO SOURCE LOCATION INTRODUCED IN LYNC

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Microsoft Outlook 2013 Web App, Microsoft Outlook 2013

Lync Client 2013 and Microsoft Lync 2013 Web App

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SOURCE LOCATION LIMITATIONS

CLIENT POLICY CONTROLLING THE PHOTO

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LYNC CLIENT SIDE PHOTO OPTIONS

Do not show my picture

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APPLICATIONS ABLE TO ACCESS THE USER PHOTO FROM

Outlook 2013 Web App, Microsoft Outlook 2013

648 X 648 PIXELS

Lync Client 2013 & Microsoft Lync 2013 Web App

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