Hello Team

Currently my Lync 2010 Test environment is Standard Edition, which is for my learning.

I would like to show my pictures in the lync client while on chatting.

I don't have any third party tool to hold / share my picture . am having the picture in the local drive.

how can I do that via active directory / or via exchange 2010.

Hi,

use the AD Photo Edit Tool. it's a free too that allow you to add pictures to AD profiles. Make sure the pictures are less than 30 KBs

Active Directory Photos
PowerShell:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2009/11/17/upload-picture-in-outlook-2010-using-the-exchange-management-shell-exchange-2010.aspx

Third-Party Software:

http://www.codetwo.com/freeware/active-directory-photos/

http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ADPhotoEdit/Info.html

Lync Server 2013  and Exchange 2013 High Resolution Photos
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj688150.aspx

You can use the commands below to change the picture using powershell.

Commands to change picture of AD account. Client1 is an AD user.   C:\test.jpg is the sample path of picture path.

Import-Module Activedirectory                                     

$photo=[byte[]](Get-Content c:\test.jpg Encoding byte)

Set-ADUser client1 Replace @{thumbnailphoto=$photo}]

Looks good all Fine. GReat Link Mate . Thanks a lot

i Have also tried this tool and looks good mate and work simply superb

It worked for me.... :)

Just want to know where does the image file saves in AD ? Don't you think by having the thumbnail image for each user object could be lead to a heavy network bandwidth utilisation during replication ?

Hi

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2009/11/17/upload-picture-in-outlook-2010-using-the-exchange-management-shell-exchange-2010.aspx

Please see the step 2 in the above link.

There is an attribute called thumbnailPhoto will be populated and this attributed should be replicated in all GC.

you can see in the scehema mmc