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Brass Contributor

Sep 28, 2016

Solved

Prevent users to change profil photo

I want to prevent users that they can change the company's profile picture, but I cannot find the solution on the web. I have tried several solutions, but still is the user capable to change the prof...

office 365

SanthoshB1
Sep 28, 2016
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,

Raymond Boone

Iron Contributor

Aug 11, 2017

I don't understand why Teams would overwrite the Outlook photo when the policy is set to disallow it. Why even give admins the option to set the policy if the new apps aren't going to respect it. Everything was going swell here until a couple of staff figured this out--now I'm stuck resetting Outlook photos. Yay.

Arin Roy
MCT
Aug 22, 2017
Exactly what we face now. People change photos in Teams and they are synced to Outlook/Echange. Nightmare for Enterprise Customers who set standards for profile photos to have a uniform experience.
- Raymond Boone
  Iron Contributor
  Aug 22, 2017
  We have a city-wide policy for security reasons...the Office 365 photo and badge photo (that we are all required to wear) must be the same. One group takes the photos so they're consistent. Everyone was onboard. Then Teams came along and changed everything.
  
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