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Uploading user profile pictures as admin
Does anyone know why I can upload user profile pictures through the SharePoint admin interface for some users but for others it says only the user can do it, there seems to be no pattern as to why on...
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.
The profile picture actually goes into the users MySite so it's possible you don't have permissions in their site as the account you are using. Check if you are site collection administrator for MySite site collection which should give you enough permissions. SharePoint Administrator should be fine as well as this account works when using powershell