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Adding your picture

To add your picture to Lync:

1.       Click the options button within Lync.

Lync_options

2.       Click 'My Picture' and select 'Show a picture from a web address'.

3.       Insert the URL of your choice or if you want to add the picture that was taken of you by HR when you joined YSJ you can customise the following URL replacing u.name with your account name.

https://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/staffpic/pic/u.name/90

 

Lync_My_Picture    

 

If you wanted to add a picture from another source, e.g. your Facebook picture:

(If using Internet Explorer)

1.       Login to Facebook

2.       Right-click on the photo you want to use and select 'Properties'

3.       Highlight the 'Address (URL)' text, right-click the highlighted text and click 'copy'.

Lync_copy_image_URL

 

4.       Paste this into the 'Show a picture from a web address' field and press 'Connect to Picture'.

 

(If using Google Chrome)

1.       Login to Facebook

2.       Right-click on the photo you want to use and select 'Copy image URL'

3.       Paste this into the 'Show a picture from a web address' field and press 'Connect to Picture'.