How do I enforce "Show My Picture" instead of "Hide My Picture" in Lync Server 2013?

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I was scouring TechNet and the web for a script that could perform the same task as one that I previously used for Lync 2010.
In Lync 2010, we had already used Lync policy to enforce that only the Active Directory photo could be used. One thing that we couldn't set via policy however was the ability to complete remove the "Hide My Picture" option in Lync 2010 client.
This left users with the ability to freely switch between showing the Corporate photo or no photo. I did eventually find and make use of script that constantly checked for this setting switch, then switched all users back to the desired "Show My Picture"
setting. I don't recall who wrote it, but it's easy to find on technet. As we started to move more and more users to our Lync 2013 enterprise pool, I noted that even though the script was running, the setting seemed to be changeable. A closer look revealed
that the script didn't function correctly against SQL for our 2013 pool.
I took the concept and applied it to Lync Server 2013 after studying the differences in Userdata. In Lync 2013, because UserData is in .zip, you need to convert it to 2010 format XML to use logic intended for Lync 2010. My script will extract 2013 data,
convert it to 2010, query for users who are set to "Hide My Picture" and then export any guilty users to an edited2010 XML. The script then converts this to 2013 Format .zip, and uploads the data for these users only. I chose to use Update-CSUserData
insted of Import-CSUserData as this avoids having to restart my Front End. I then use a scheduled task on my Front End server which runs this script every hour.
Please note: You can use this script, but I guarantee nothing about it's functionality, and I am not responsible for how you positively/negatively use it. You should always test things in a Lab Environment. Furthermore, this script was run on a relatively
smaller Enterprise system in which we are by default set to "Show My Picture" and already assigned as part of our user policy the ForceADPhoto attribute. This means that running the script is less intensive on my FE than say on a FE with 10,000 users
where none of the users were set to "Show My Picture". Please keep this in mind when planning to execute against your FE. You may want to edit my script and insert the -UserFilter or -WhatIf in the Export-CsUserData UpDate-CsUserData.
Anyways, I hope this solves the similar issue for many of you Lync 2013 administrators. Please feel free to share my work with others if it does, and also give this post some good feedback and/or mark my post as the answer to your problem.
Alas, here's the script (save it as a .ps1 , i.e. ForceShowMyPicture.ps1)
#Lync 2013 ForceShowMyPicture - Compiled by Octavio A. Serpa (Octavio-Admin on TechNet)
# Import Lync Module
Import-Module “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2013\Modules\Lync\Lync.psd1"
###Variables To Set
#This variable is a folder where files will be temporarily written
$folderPath = “C:\Lync2013Scripts\Export”
#This is the FQDN of the pool in which the users you want to target reside
$poolFQDN = “<lyncpool.domain.local>”
###Done
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “CHECKING THAT TEMP EXPORT FOLDER PATH EXISTS"
If (-not (Test-Path "$folderPath" -pathType container))
 "ERROR: Your Export Directory doesn't exist!"
 Exit
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “TEMP EXPORT FOLDER DOES EXIST"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “PRE-CLEANING OLD EXPORT/IMPORT FILES"
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2013UserData.zip") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2013UserData.zip" }
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml" }
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2010EditedUserData.xml") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2010EditedUserData.xml" }
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip" }
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “PRE-CLEANING COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “EXPORTING LYNC 2013 POOL USER DATA”
Export-CsUserData -PoolFqdn $poolFQDN -FileName $folderPath\Lync2013UserData.zip
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “EXPORT COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “CONVERTING LYNC 2013 USER DATA TO 2010 FORMAT”
Convert-CsUserData -InputFile "$folderPath\Lync2013UserData.Zip" -OutputFile "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml" -TargetVersion Lync2010
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “CONVERSION COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “CHECKING THAT FORMAT CONVERSION WAS SUCCESSFUL AND .XML EXISTS”
If (-not (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml" -pathType leaf))
 "ERROR: Verify that $folderPath is writable!"
 Exit
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “CONVERSION COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “LOADING XML”
$d = [xml] (Get-Content "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml")
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “XML LOADING COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “CORRECTING AD PHOTO SETTING”
$changes = 0
$lastProcessedUser = $null
foreach ($hr in $d.HomedResources.HomedResource)
 $found = 0
 foreach ($c in $hr.Containers.Container)
  foreach ($p in $c.Publication)
   If ($p.CategoryName -eq 'contactCard' -and $p.InstanceNum -eq 6 -and $p.Data.contactCard.displayADPhoto -eq 'false')
    If ($hr.UserAtHost -ne $lastProcessedUser)
     "$($hr.UserAtHost) reset"
     $lastProcessedUser = $hr.UserAtHost
    $p.Data.contactCard.displayADPhoto = 'true'
    $p.Version = (([int] $p.Version) + 1).ToString()
    $p.PrevPubTime = $p.LastPubTime
    $p.LastPubTime = (Get-Date -Format s).ToString()
    $found = 1
    $changes++
 If ($found -eq 0) { [Void]$d.HomedResources.RemoveChild($hr) }
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “AD PHOTO SETTING CORRECTIONS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “Changes: $changes"
If ($changes -ne 0)
 #Message Out
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “RE-SAVING XML”
 $d.Save("$folderPath\Lync2010EditedUserData.xml")
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “CONVERTING LYNC 2010 .XML BACK TO 2013 .ZIP FORMAT"
Convert-CsUserData -InputFile "$folderPath\Lync2010EditedUserData.xml" -OutputFile "$folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip" -TargetVersion Current
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “CONVERSION BACK TO 2013 .ZIP FORMAT SUCCESSFUL"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “IMPORTING LYNC 2013 POOL DATA FOR CORRECTED USERS”
Update-CsUserData -FileName $folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip -Confirm:$false -Verbose
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “IMPORT COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor YELLOW “STARTING POST-IMPORT-CLEANUP OF EXPORT/IMPORT FILES"
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2013UserData.zip") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2013UserData.zip" }
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2010UserData.xml" }
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2010EditedUserData.xml") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2010EditedUserData.xml" }
If (Test-Path "$folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip") { Remove-Item "$folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip" }
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “POST-IMPORT-CLEANUP COMPLETED"
#Message Out
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “AD PHOTO SETTING SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED"

Answer 1

When I try to run this I get the follow error.  Any thoughts?
Update-CsUserData : Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type
'Microsoft.Rtc.Interop.User.ICsUserManagement'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on
the COM component for the interface with IID '{D5ADD966-BDC3-4A8F-BFE8-6A59A9F74CB2}' failed due to the
following error: Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
At C:\Lync2013Scripts\ForceDisplayPhoto.ps1:113 char:1
+ Update-CsUserData -FileName $folderPath\Lync2013EditedUserData.zip -Confirm:$fal ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: ([email protected]:String) [Update-CsUserData], Invalid
   CastException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Rtc.Management.AD.Cmdlets.ImportOcsUserDataCmdlet