Please make sure that your photos are reviewed before posting, and try to keep the file size of the photos to a minimum. In Office 365, there exists a limitation for the user photo not to be more than 10 KB in size, but I will show you how to get around that limitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having a user photo for each of your users is very beneficial as it personalizes each account to a face in the company. The user photos can be viewed in below locations:\n\n \n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Outlook Web Access<\/li>
- Contact Card<\/li>
- Thumbnail in emails<\/li>
- Outlook Client<\/li>
- Yammer<\/li>
- Lync Client<\/li>
- SharePoint (People Search \/ Newsfeed)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Steps to take:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Remove the 10KB photo size limitation in Exchange Online<\/li>
- Prepare a folder with all users photos<\/li>
- Update the profile photos via a PowerShell cmdlet.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Connect to Exchange Online with the RPS Proxy Method to remove the 10K size limitation<\/h3>\n\n\n
$UserCredential = Get-Credential\n$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https:\/\/outlook.office365.com\/powershell-liveid\/?proxyMethod=RPS -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection\nImport-PSSession $Session<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
NOTE:<\/strong> In the PowerShell cmdlet above, we connected using a different proxy method. This was to overwrite the limitation of uploading the images with size more than 10KB. Using the different proxy method (\/?proxyMethod=RPS<\/strong> ) to connect to Office 365 in the above cmdlet accomplishes this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prepare a folder locally and place all the photos in that folder<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Create a folder named C:\/UserPics<\/em> and make the filename of each photo be the username of that particular user. (i.e. llingerfelt.png<\/em>)
The below script should be able account for aliases that have a ‘.’ in the id as well. (i.e. lance.lingerfelt)
<\/p>\n\n\n\nNOTE: <\/strong>From my research, there is no set photo type that is required for the photo. My suggestion would be to keep the photos .png<\/em> for size constraints while maintaining picture clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Update the profile pictures via PowerShell<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Create the following script and name it Photos-Update.ps1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n
$path= 'C:\\UserPics\\'\n$Images = Get-ChildItem $path\n$Images |Foreach-Object{\n$Identity = ($_.Name.Tostring() -replace '.png','')\n$PictureData = $path+$_.name\nSet-UserPhoto -Identity $Identity -PictureData ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($PictureData)) -Confirm:$false }\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nRun Photos-Update.ps1<\/em> and the script should upload the photos to Office 365 and apply each photo to the corresponding user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NOTE: If you’re still having some issues with the alias having a ‘.’ in the name, you can also configure the Photos-Update.ps1 script in this manner to get that working properly:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n
$path= 'C:\\UserPics\\'\n$Images = Get-ChildItem $path\n$Images |Foreach-Object{\n$Identity = ($_.Name.Tostring() -split \"\\.\")\n$count = $Identity.count\nIf($count -gt 2)\n{\nfor($i=0; $i -le $count-2; $i++)\n{\n$username=$username+$Identity[$i]+\".\"\n}\n$Id=$username.TrimEnd(\".\")\n}\nElse\n{\n$Id=$Identity[0]\n}\n$PictureData = $path+$_.name\nSet-UserPhoto -Identity $Id -PictureData ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($PictureData)) -Confirm:$false\n$username=$null\n}\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nHAPPY SCRIPTING!
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