When we open up Options in Lync, this is what we see. The results on the client endpoint are shown below. To assign this to a user, we run Grant-CsClientPolicy -Identity -PolicyName PhotosControl This configures the client policy called PhotosControl to allow the user to display any photo in Lync (by specifying a URL, using the corporate photo, or displaying no photo at all). Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity PhotosControl -DisplayPhoto AllPhotos This setting will allow the user to either specify a URL, use the AD or SharePoint stored photo, or turn off photos altogether as illustrated below. There are three configurable options in a Lync client policy that control how photos are displayed, and these are defined as variables of the -DisplayPhoto switch. Grant-CsClientPolicy – This will allow us to assign the client policy to a user or group of users. Set-CsClientPolicy – This will allow us to change the configuration of the client policy. We’ll be using the following Lync Server Management Shell cmdlets to demonstrate this: You could either modify the existing Global client policy, or create a new one using the New-CsClientPolicy cmdlet. How do we implement this?įor this post, I’ll assume we have an existing policy called PhotosControl that we’re going to modify to achieve this. The configuration item you’re looking for is DisplayPhoto. To find out what control of photos a policy is applying, you can run Get-CsClientPolicy to retrieve all the current configuration of a client policy. You can control this part of a policy either by modifying the default global client policy or by creating a new client policy and assigning this to the users you want the control of pictures to apply to. How are photos controlled?Īll control over how photos are displayed in Lync is done via a client policy. Given that there aren’t many examples around of the behaviour, I thought it was worthwhile writing this up and including some screenshots. I came across a post on the TechNet forums recently where someone was asking a lot of questions about how photos are implemented and managed in Lync.

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