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Office 365 user photos questions

Hi Experts,

In a hybrid environment, currently setting photos in local AD.
Users have the ability through OWA and other office 365 apps to set their own photo.

Is there a way to report on any user who may have changed their picture through O365?

Can this setting be locked down so a user won't have the ability to customize their photo?

I found this article which explains it partially: http://tszulczewski.com/user-photo-in-office-365-how-to-solve-problems/

Thanks!

Sajid Shaik M

the Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory; it's free and useful module for PowerShell giving you a lot of "already-made" command-lets to interact with AD.

as well you can use the following powershell command

Get-QADUser -IncludedProperties "thumbnailPhoto" | Where-Object {$_.thumbnailPhoto -eq $null}

all the best

Ron Shorts

ASKER

re-phrased my question Sajid, thank you

Vasil Michev (MVP)

You can disable the OWA settings, but that only covers half the story anyway - users will still be able to set photos in SharePoint or Delve, etc. In other words, the photo handling in O365 is crappy, and there is no "100%" solution. Take a look at this utility (and read the FAQ for a detailed explanation on how syncing photos works across O365): https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP/tree/master/Samples/Core.ProfilePictureUploader

Ron Shorts

ASKER

Thanks Vasil, not a lot of options.... so other than exporting each of the thumbnails from the tenant and comparing size for example, there is not way to grab a query of all of the thumbnails in the tenant by attrib properties to tell if they are original photo's set on prem is my understanding. Is that correct?

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