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Uploading user profile pictures as admin
We’ve experience the same problem: Some of the User pictures can change from admin and other not.
After some research I found a solution for this problem:
When a user change the picture himself or the picture is sync from local AD it can’t be change by admin.
In the SharePoint Admin center in the user profile you found an option: “Image placeholder synchronization status” (translated from German Admin Interface)
Change this option to ‘0’ – save the profile and open it again – now you can change the Profile Picture :smileyhappy:
You can do this also with Powershell or with other tools.
We've been encouraging users to upload their own pictures but where they haven't and we have a photo to speed up the process I've been adding the photo manually for them through manage user profiles in the SharePoint Admin Centre, which works some of the time but on others it says 'Only <user name> can change this photo'. Generally there is no photo already uploaded in O365 or Yammer but we have a few where they have a photo showing in Yammer or Skype but nothing has synced to Delve or SharePoint.