Lync Tool Belt #2: Setting up Your Lync Picture using LinkedIn

Lync Tool Belt #2: Setting up Your Lync Picture using LinkedIn

There is a very simple way to do this in Lync by using your picture on from your LinkedIn account.
Here is how:

1. Go to your LinkedIn Account
2. Click view profile
3. Right click your picture and click properties
4. In the properties screen copy the address URL
5. Open up your Lync Interface
6. Click the pull down arrow next to the gear in
   the upper right hand corner
7. Click tools
8. Click options
9. Click on my picture
10. Click show a picture from a web address
11. Paste your URL from LinkedIn
12. Click Connect to Picture
13. Click ok

That is it!  You will now have a picture on your Lync, especially useful when you are federated withcontacts outside of your company.  Who doesn’t like a face with a name?

-Andrea Leonhardt, PEI