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Taen keren
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Jun 29, 2019
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User photos in O365

Hi    What is the 'best way' to get all the users photo "uploaded" to O365?    Users mails are not moved/present in EXO    Looked/tried CodeTwo - but getting permission error:  " you do not ha...
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  • Adam_Aardvark's avatar
    Adam_Aardvark
    Jul 03, 2019

    Hi Taen keren,

     

    CodeTwo's rep over here.

     

    Please review this installation guide: https://www.codetwo.com/userguide/user-photos-for-office-365/installation.htm to make sure that you accepted the permissions requested by the application and that the program was allowed to be registered in Azure Active Directory of your tenant. 

     

    Be also advised that only photos of users with an active Office 365 subscription plan (with Exchange Online) are synchronized.

     

    Thanks,

    Adam (CodeTwo)

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Navishkar Sadheo
Steel Contributor
Jul 04, 2019

Adam_Aardvark ChrisHoardMVP Taen keren ChrisWebbTech 

 

Hi All

 

Hope everyone is well. I have the exact opposite request. We wish to remove all profile pictures in all Office 365 services. We wish to default to initials (example NS) and prevent staff from changing their profile pictures until we get professional ones taken. Any advice?

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Adam_Aardvark
Iron Contributor
Jul 08, 2019

To remove user photos, you can also use CodeTwo User Photos for Office 365. Just select the photos in the program, right-click on your selection and choose Remove photos from the shortcut menu. You can also use the Remove button in the toolbar.

 

Here is a video on how to manage user photos with this freeware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6eLrwLVY3o&

 

When it comes to blocking users’ ability to change photos, you can use:

Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -SetPhotoEnabled $false

Users won’t be able to change their profile picture from OWA. It will probably be enough for most users. They might be still able to do that from other channels, but I'm not aware of any toggle in Office 365 to change it globally.

 

Adam

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    Navishkar Sadheo
    Steel Contributor
    Jul 12, 2019

    Adam_Aardvark 

     

    Hi Adam. Thanks so much for the reply. Will try that. How will "CodeTwo User Photos for Office 365" work in a hybrid environment thou??

    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Jul 12, 2019
      codetwo is online only. I used to use a tool called directoryupdate from ithicos, it will let users update their profile and photo and if you do directorymanager you can update it for everyone else, not a bad tool set and reasonably priced for hybrid use.

      I prefer Hyperfish but it only supprots user updates, no way to give an admin from such as HR to maintain the profile / photos like you can with directorymanager.

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