Forum Discussion
Prevent users to change profil photo
- Set-OWAMailboxPolicy applies only for OWA and users can able to change their photos from other O365 services. Also this policy will take effect after 60 minutes,
Another reason is to maintain professionalism. So you don't have a refrigerator, high school mascot, and potentially something NSFW in a Teams call/message, email, etc
These photos are only internal from my experience but if someone wants to put a picture of steak up, it could offend a vegan user. (Not my opinion, but you get the point.)
Easier to turn the option off and keep everything professional and congruent.
I have every option in Azure/Sharepoint/Exchange set to NOT ALLOW picture change (as per ie https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/prevent-users-from-changing-profile-photos-microsoft-365/ )
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | FL name,SetPhotoEnabled
Name : OwaMailboxPolicy-Default
SetPhotoEnabled : False
get-CASMailbox -Identity Am*li*.M**l*email address removed for privacy reasons | fl OwaMailboxPolicy
OwaMailboxPolicy : OwaMailboxPolicy-DefaultIn Teams I get:
Change your profile picture
Picture options are disabled by policy.
Yet on of my users got a Dinosaur picture instead the one which was admin uploaded
I simply cannot figure out how that happened (user reckons she did not purposely change, and in fact wants it reverted to proper one - so I am not fighting user here, just need to understand the mystery)
Seb
we had everything locked down and found users were changing in Windows.
- Yes, that what I found. User can change local machine profile & that somehow propagates to Azure random bits
Very annoying!
Seb
SebCerazy - what we noticed at my workplace is that if the user’s O365 account is only a mailcontact and not a mailbox then all the policies are of no use and the user is still allowed to upload photos
- Full user with A5 license
