
LYNC 2010 & 2013 USER’S PHOTO SOURCE LOCATIONS | PAGE 6 OF 26 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 96×96 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 SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT CONFIGURED TO SHOW PICTURE FROM WEB ADDRESS “SHOW PICTURE FROM WEB ADDRESS” LYNC 2010 & 2013 USER’S PHOTO SOURCE LOCATIONS | PAGE 5 OF 26 Or a photo from URL configured by the user known as “Show picture from web address”. 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”

LYNC 2010 & 2013 USER’S PHOTO SOURCE LOCATIONS | PAGE 4 OF 26 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.

SCREENSHOT OF LYNC 2010 CLIENT SHOWING USER PHOTOS IN THE CONTACT LIST Lync 2010 allows user to view photos of their contacts and to make their own photos available to other users.

LYNC 2010 & 2013 USER’S PHOTO SOURCE LOCATIONS | PAGE 3 OF 26 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. LYNC 2010 & 2013 USER’S 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.
