Today, let’s tackle a tiny-but-frustrating issueSkype for Business contact photos. User images, Skype avatars, we have several names for them. They’re the little circular image that shows up in Skype for Business next to your name in the Contacts List. Contact photos also show up in Outlook and Office 365. There’s a reason for this: Contact photos are stored within Active Directory accounts. Microsoft project download free for mac. AD then populates the photos out to other Office properties, like Exchange, Skype for Business, and Office apps.

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We had one employee whose Skype for Business contact didn’t show his photo. We’ll call him Mike. Now, we knew Mike had one, because we saw it in Outlook all the time.

So why wouldn’t it show up in Skype? (Backend information for reference: Exchange Server and AD on-prem, Skype for Business Server on-prem.) Now, the solution for this wound up being something VERY simple.

If you want to just see the fix that worked for us, skip to “Troubleshooting Point 3” below. But I’m documenting the missteps as well, because you CAN fix contact photo issues using those methods, under different circumstances.

Troubleshooting Point 1: Is My Local Cache Not Working? My co-worker confirmed that a contact photo did exist in Active Directory for Mike. I could see it in Outlook, but not Skype for Business.

Was this a local issue? We’ve blogged about local contact issues in the past: Maybe my local client’s files were out of date, or corrupt somehow. Would that prevent Mike’s contact photo from displaying?

Some Google searches brought me to:. Caragol mentioned the local photo cache directory, typically located at: Users your.username AppData Local Microsoft Office 15.0 [or 16.0] Lync sip_yourusername@yourdomain.com Photo In it you should see a list of.cache files. Each of these.cache files is actually a photo. Rename them to a.jpg and you’ll seea contact photo.

Now, Mike’s.cache file didn’t show up on my computer. That meant either his contact photo didn’t exist, or it wasn’t reaching me.

So I tried a sneaky tactic—grabbing a random image, sizing it to 96x96px, naming it sip_mikeXXX@planetmagpie.com.cache, and putting it in the Photo directory. Net I tried shutting down Skype for Business, renaming the UCSGroupsContacts.cache file (it’s one level up from Photo), and reopening Skype. Thereby forcing a fresh download from the Skype for Business Server. No change to Mike’s contact photo though. Troubleshooting Point 2: Is the Contact Photo the Wrong Size? In another search, I came across this app: The Exclaimer app helps you get people’s photos into “Outlook, SharePoint and Skype Easily,” according to their site.