Working with high-resolution photos
Outlook 2010, Lync 2010, and SharePoint 2010 featured the ability to display user photos in some parts of their respective user interfaces. This added a friendly note to these applications in addition to making it possible to identify your correspondents better. However, there were several limitations to the photo implementation in these products: photos had to be stored in the Active Directory thumbnailPhoto attribute, which limited them to 10 KB in size (and, not incidentally, required a schema change to enable thumbnailPhoto to be stored on global catalog servers). The photos were limited to a measly 96 × 96 pixels, which looked terrible when the Lync client stretched them for its display.
To fix this, Microsoft ...
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