Lync 2013 / Skype for Business sharing photos with federated contacts

In the new SfB client I can see photos of federated contacts. I'm on Office 365 and this only happens for Federated contacts also hosted on Office 365 where we have an Exchange organisation relationship. I'm not sure if this
is because of the new client, updated server software in Office 365 or something I just missed before.
If I look into the client debug files I can see that the photo URL for Office 365 includes the wssecurity (federated authentication) but for onprem system it's missing.
I have customers with Lync onprem asking for sharing the high res photos with external organisations. The classic URL-sharing is not a viable solution for several reasons. So, based on these findings:
Is the wssecurity (Web Service Security) in the EWS path something that will come to SfB server for onpremises making ot possible to enable photo sharing between organisations having federated identity configured in Exchange?
Lync Onprem (with highres photos configured)
<photo type="exchange">
<uri>
<ewsUrl>https://mail.example.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx</ewsUrl>
<primarySMTP>[email protected]</primarySMTP>
</uri>
<hash>"89E39E74"</hash>
</photo>
Lync Online
<photo type="exchange">
<uri>
<ewsUrl>https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx/WSSecurity</ewsUrl>
<primarySMTP>[email protected]</primarySMTP>
</uri>
<hash>"634A0794"</hash>
</photo

Hi,
The Skype For Business Server update will come soon, I couldn't find any information about if the WSSecurity would be added to the EWS path for sfb. You can check when the update for Skype For Business comes. Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards,
Eason Huang
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