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[ZackBaum]

Hey Teams Team, I would like to see Profile Pictures from members of external companies in meetings.

I'm in many meeting with multiple companies, it would be Great if the pictures would show up instead of the Initials. is this something we can incorporate in future updates?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

There's an open request for that at the feedback portal, you can go there and vote on it https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/e4ba0d0f-272e-ec11-b6e6-00224827bbc2

As of today, if you're an admin you'd have to do that either in the Azure AD portal or PowerShell by uploading a picture with Set-AzureADUserThumbnailPhoto. You can even do it as a standard user, but the process is a bit complex for recommending that.

[#3]

@ChristianJBergstrom Could you please expand/clarify how Set-AzureADUserThumbnailPhoto could be used to enable visibility of profile photos of external users in meetings, as per the question posed?

Looking at the documentation for  Set-AzureADUserThumbnailPhoto it appears that this command would be used to set a user's profile photo only. 

In your answer, are you referring only to the indirect effect of Set-AzureADUserThumbnailPhoto ? Are you simply saying: if an external user has no profile photo, but then they set a profile photo using this command, then others will be able to see that profile photo when that external user joins a meeting? 

Presumably there are no additional implications in using Set-AzureADUserThumbnailPhoto compared to a user uploading a photo at their browser-based profile page - the outcome is exactly the same, insofar as the resultant scoping of who can see the photo and who can't under different circumstances? 

And therefore the only benefit (or differentiation) of using  Set-AzureADUserThumbnailPhoto is that it provides a way for an administrator to upload profile photos for multiple users, rather than because it carries any particular implications for how visibility of profile photos is scoped. 

Is that all correct?

thanks

Robert