Lync2013 forcing users to display enterprise avatars

The first thing you need to tell everyone about this throttling operation is that you can't do it either with Lync2010 or Lync2013, or through a registry Group Policy. Because Microsoft has told this to keep users ' privacy.

But as a overbearing system administrator is not allowed to be so willful, then how should we achieve it?

First of all, if you like, you can visit this link to see how it is implemented by foreign IT personnel:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/23780cad-a365-4e88-a667-57f22558b60a/ How-do-i-enforce-show-my-picture-instead-of-hide-my-picture-in-lync-server-2013?forum=lyncdeploy

If you do not like English can read my script (I attached to the attachment), the deletion of some unnecessary operations and do some Chinese display output.

I'll talk about how the script works:

But in the Lync2013 era the Dbimpexp.exe tool is gone, and the XML file Lync2013 is not recognized (it recognizes the ZIP format), instead of the new Lync2013 PowerShell Tools Update-csuserdata and Export-csuserdata, so now that we have a ready-made script for Lync2010, do we have any data conversion tools? The answer is that there is this I also described in the above blog is the Convert-csuserdata tool. So we only need to add the conversion code in the process of processing Lync2013 's avatar, we can borrow the most of the functions of the Lync2010 Avatar Control script directly (the foreigner is still very smart AH).

Now let's look at the use of scripts:

1 First set the Hide my picture is also the avatar.

2 Next execute the script, in which we found that the script has reset [email protected] this account.

3 You sign in to Lync again, the photos are already forced to appear.

4 If you want to long-term detection needs to set a scheduled task to execute this script.

5 Where did everyone find a problem? If the script is still in progress without the user hiding the avatar, it is not a waste of resources to continually export the import database. So let's run the script.

We found that the script did not detect the user's avatar hidden, the conversion and import operations are no longer executed, which has saved resources for the system.

Special tips:

The script has two places to change, 1 needs to create C:\Lync2013Scripts\Export This directory customization is required in the script to update this directory. 2 is the need to change the FQDN of the front end pool in the script to your own

Lync2013 forcing users to display enterprise avatars