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Harry Dubois
Brass Contributor
Sep 28, 2016
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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...
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  • SanthoshB1's avatar
    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,
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Sep 29, 2016
Mmm...Dean, I agree with your comment when we are talking about an enterprise customer or event a government one...but for education (Harry's case) the scenario is a little bit different
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Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Sep 29, 2016
Juan, thanks again for providing your perspective. I don't have any Edu clients so I frequently forget about that unique set of use cases. I would expect that allowing kids to change their photos could create a lot of problems and preventing this type of personalization would be desirable.
This is just another example of why MS needs to include more admin controls when they initially deploy services. Providing minimum viable products to gather data could be very misleading because many customers will not even try it out if they can't control it.
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    EmoryServices
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 23, 2022

    Dean_Gross 

     

    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.

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      SebCerazy
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 27, 2023

      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-Default

      In 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

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        SusanMcClements
        Steel Contributor
        Jan 15, 2024

        we had everything locked down and found users were changing in Windows.

        SebCerazy 

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    Harry Dubois
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 29, 2016

    Additional info: we do have an educational tenant and using the profile photo also in our communications to new students and parents. Then it is for me 'logical' to use this company-profile-photo. And... a lot of teachers do not change their profile photo because they are not aware that they can change is ;-).