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User photos in O365
Hi Taen keren,
CodeTwo's rep over here.
Please review this installation guide: https://www.codetwo.com/userguide/user-photos-for-office-365/installation.htm to make sure that you accepted the permissions requested by the application and that the program was allowed to be registered in Azure Active Directory of your tenant.
Be also advised that only photos of users with an active Office 365 subscription plan (with Exchange Online) are synchronized.
Thanks,
Adam (CodeTwo)
To remove user photos, you can also use CodeTwo User Photos for Office 365. Just select the photos in the program, right-click on your selection and choose Remove photos from the shortcut menu. You can also use the Remove button in the toolbar.
Here is a video on how to manage user photos with this freeware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6eLrwLVY3o&
When it comes to blocking users’ ability to change photos, you can use:
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -SetPhotoEnabled $false
Users won’t be able to change their profile picture from OWA. It will probably be enough for most users. They might be still able to do that from other channels, but I'm not aware of any toggle in Office 365 to change it globally.
Adam
Hi Adam. Thanks so much for the reply. Will try that. How will "CodeTwo User Photos for Office 365" work in a hybrid environment thou??
Hi Navishkar Sadheo,
CodeTwo User Photos for Office 365 supports most hybrid configurations. Please see this user's manual for details: https://www.codetwo.com/userguide/user-photos-for-office-365/hybrid.htm
Adam
- codetwo is online only. I used to use a tool called directoryupdate from ithicos, it will let users update their profile and photo and if you do directorymanager you can update it for everyone else, not a bad tool set and reasonably priced for hybrid use.
I prefer Hyperfish but it only supprots user updates, no way to give an admin from such as HR to maintain the profile / photos like you can with directorymanager.
