However, High Resolution photographs are not the complete answer to these photo quality issues.

Here is a example of a high resolution image at 648 x 648 If you do not properly format and scale the high resolution image then you are reducing the potential image quality.

If you upload an image of greater resolution it is going to be resized to this anyway. There is no value in uploading an image to Exchange higher than the resolution of 648 x 648 pixels as that is the largest size Exchange supports.

As with AD, the same rules apply, the image should be in portrait mode to get the best resize scaling. This means that they are able to upload an image with a resolution of 648 x 648 pixels. The introduction of High Resolution images in Exchange 2013 allows users to upload their own images to Exchange. When this person calls you, or you call them, the conversation window expands this 96 x 96 pixel image into 648 x 648 pixels, and herein is the problem… The result blurred image! In the Skype for Business client will actually retrieve the AD thumbnail photo and resize further to 48 x 48 pixels to get to the address book thumbnail display size of this: So when resized to 96 x 96 pixels it comes out a bit clearerīut the story does not end there. A picture taken in portrait mode fairs better with resizing due to the 1:1 aspect ratio. As you can see in the above example it is pretty hard to make out any type of facial definition and is about as much use as a thumbnail image as a blank placeholder. This makes the resized picture seem thin and long. So converting a 1200 x 600 image to 96 x 96 pixels means that the horizontal axis is resized out of proportion to that of the original resolution. The problem with is that when resizing to equal aspect ratios for horizontal and vertical axis is that they are not uniform. The first problem is that people usually use pictures taken in landscape format, rather than portrait. So give you an idea of what this looks like, here is an image at 96 x 96 pixels Most organisations used AD based photos, and in so doing limited the quality to a 96 x 96 pixel image of no more than 100KB in size. We were limited to using Active Directory based photos or using a web site hosting images of each user. The actual cause of this is simple.īack in the days before Exchange 2013, Lync didn’t really have a plausible Photo store worth having anyway. Unlike most quality issues within Skype for Business, this problem is not down to lack of bandwidth or some other Skype for Business trick to ensure best possible experience. To clarify the problem is when a user answers a call from a person and the picture of the caller is expanded and displayed in the conversation window. Why does the image of a person look ok sometimes but pixelated at other times for the same person? Over the weekend I was scanning a few message boards and came across a post asking

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