I added a photo of each user in Active Directory (attribute thumbnailPhoto) to use them as account picture. This worked well in Windows 7 using this solution: http://jacob.steenhagen.us/blog/2012/02/loading-a-windows-7-user-tile-using-the-picture-in-active-directory/ This does not work for Windows 8 since the handling of user account pictures has been modified. Does anyone know a solution to get this to work with Windows 8? PS: Mac OS X uses the user account pictures from AD by default for mobile accounts on machines joined to the domain.

It is related to development. You can refer to these articles.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Account-picture-name-sample-912baff1

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverpowershell/thread/b5a6d825-c3ef-43b8-bf17-19b87b583507

any solution to this peter?

no idea why MS haven't integrated it.

Nope. Well, you could use MAC OS X. This is default there.

Perhaps the Office team need to spend some time with the Windows team!  Office 2013 seems to pick up the AD account photo automatically, I just logged on as a user to Windows 8, fired up Office 2013 and bang!, there was their AD photo, no config necessary.

If MS want Windows 8 to be a "personal experience" perhaps they should give this some thought - make it a GPO option to use AD photos or not.  I have nearly 800 users (in a school) and want this to be automated and 'personal' for the students so that when they get their computers they see their own smiling faces!

• Edited by David C Adams Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:24 AM

Perhaps the Office team need to spend some time with the Windows team!  Office 2013 seems to pick up the AD account photo automatically, I just logged on as a user to Windows 8, fired up Office 2013 and bang!, there was their AD photo, no config necessary.

If MS want Windows 8 to be a "personal experience" perhaps they should give this some thought - make it a GPO option to use AD photos or not.  I have nearly 800 users (in a school) and want this to be automated and 'personal' for the students so that when they get their computers they see their own smiling faces!

that was really helpful

Visit http://www.parackattu.com/2014/04/windows-8-windows-81-set-account.html

Here you can find, how to set user tile (Account Picture) from active directory on a Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 domain member.

Jimmy's code works well, I have written a PowerShell equivalent. Check it out here if you're interested: http://blog.jourdant.me/ps-setting-windows-8-account-picture-from-ad/

• Edited by jtempleton Sunday, July 06, 2014 10:26 AM Updated URL

I have a solution that works great for both Windows 8 and Windows 10.

It uses PowerShell to fetch the Active Directory data and then sets it as the local profiles picture.

Read more at: https://heineborn.com/tech/ad-user-pictures-in-windows-10