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Teams profile picture now possible to change with Exchange on-premise mailbox
Hi there, We were unable to change the profile picture in Teams in our environment because we host the user-maibox in Exchange On-premise (with hybrid config) Since this week, our users repor...
Hi, with MS Teams Client 1.4.00.11161 we can not change the photo. This sounds good.
No good here, I've tested from the web client (through edge) and also from desktop client (version 1.4.00.2879) and users are still being allowed to change the profile photo.
For your info. we have changed two settings a while ago, perhaps its take a couple of weeks to activate.
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SharePoint Online profile policy
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Setting up your SharePoint Online profile policy requires you to use the Microsoft 365 admin center interface.
- Go to Microsoft 365 admin center, click Show all in the left menu and choose SharePoint to access the SharePoint Online admin center.
In the SharePoint Online admin center, click More features, and click Open in the User profiles section.
Go to Manage User Properties.
Click Picture and then click Edit Policy.
In the Policy settings, clear the Allow users to edit values for this property checkbox, scroll down and click OK.
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Exchange Setting:-----------------------------------------------------------
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-OwaMailboxPolicy -Identity "OwaMailboxPolicy-Default"
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SetPhotoEnabled : True
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -SetPhotoEnabled $false -Identity "OwaMailboxPolicy-Default"
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-OwaMailboxPolicy -Identity "OwaMailboxPolicy-Default"
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SetPhotoEnabled : False
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