We probably all know these blurry images appearing in Lync 2013 clients during the Lync call. This new feature, although extremely helpful for users, brought new challenges from the infrastructure and administration point of view. To facilitate downloading photos from Office 365, I’ve put together a simple PowerShell script.Starting with the 2010 edition of Outlook, Lync and Exchange users are finally able to have their photos displayed directly in Outlook and Lync clients in conversations. It’s annoying to have two different areas where photos can live to represent users and they are often managed by two different teams. Usually things like this are handled through communication and users can upload their photos again after migration but it does have an impact on that day 1 experience.Īnother time downloading photos can be a requirement is when they need to be uploaded to other systems, like for instance, a HR system. One of these small things is, with most tenant to tenant migrations, user photos aren’t migrated by the standard migration tools that are available. With some simple scripting we can take what is a best a disjointed experience and start enhancing it by removing some of the small things that remind users that there has been a change.
This isn’t a new idea and profile pictures in Exchange / Active Directory and Exchange Online have been around for more than a decade.Īs I’ve mentioned in other posts, my team and I carry out a lot of Office 365 migrations (mergers or acquisitions mostly) and I’m always looking to enhance the end user experience. This is particularly useful for new starters who have a lot of new faces to get used to. I don’t know how many times I’ve been looking for someone new in our offices and just knowing what they look like has made life a lot easier. Users can list their skills or interests on their profile and and this can be made available to the wider organization to help bring people who may never have met in person together with information about each other.Īnother useful piece of functionality is the simple profile picture. Having appropriate manager attributes, for example, can provide an out of the box org chart that can be very useful in large organizations.
One of the great benefits of Office 365 is how users profiles can be customized and filled with helpful information.
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