It saves an image file in the thumbnailPhoto Active Directory attribute. There is a simple Set-ADUser cmdlet that can be used to import user photos to Active Directory. Take a good look at this default account picture, as you will probably see it for the last time:įollow these steps to use Active Directory user photos in Windows 10 Some of these steps can easily be done using CodeTwo Active Directory Photos, which is completely free! As for the other steps, this article will guide you through them smoothly. Optionally, you may also need to globally change some of the users’ privileges, but we’ll get back to that later. All you have to do is make sure that you already have user photos added in Active Directory (or add them yourself) and create a Group Policy object (GPO) that will execute a script to change users’ account pictures in your domain automatically.

However, you can take even more advantage of Active Directory photos and use them as account pictures in Windows 10 (and other versions of Windows as well, starting from Windows 7).

User photos stored in Active Directory can be used by applications like Outlook, Skype for Business (Lync) or SharePoint to display the picture of currently logged-in user in their interface.

Windows 10 user picture size