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Cole
Cole

Reputation: 196

Office 365 Powershell issue with Set-UserPhoto for anyone other than myself

I'm a global admin for our 365 environment and I'm having an issue with the Set-UserPhoto command in powershell. If I run it for my own username, it works just fine but if I run it using anyone else's username, it errors. Is there some kind of access I need to give myself to make this work? I'm a domain admin and global administrator in 365 so I should be able to do anything.

Connected through PowerShell 3.0 using the following:

$UserCredential = Get-Credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/?proxyMethod=RPS -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session

Command I'm running:

Set-UserPhoto –Identity username -PictureData ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\userpics\username.jpg"))

Works fine for my username, for any other username I get this:

Error on proxy command 'Set-UserPhoto -Identity:'username' -PictureData: Tons of numbers here that scrolls for quite a while -Confirm:$False' to server BN3PR0201MB1027.namprd02.prod.outlook.com: Server version 15.01.0534.0000, Proxy method RPS: The WinRM client cannot process the request. The connection string should be of the form [://][:][/] where transport is one of "http" or "https". Transport, port and suffix are optional. The host may be a hostname or an IP address. For IPv6 addresses, enclose the address in brackets - e.g. "http://[1::2]:80/wsman". Change the connection string and try the request again. . + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-UserPhoto], CmdletProxyException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.CmdletProxyException,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Reci pientTasks.SetUserPhoto + PSComputerName : outlook.office365.com

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11718

Answers (3)

Lars Knakkergaard
Lars Knakkergaard

Reputation: 1

I had the same issue, and solved it from another post (I don't remember which one).

In the connection string:

$LiveCred = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri **https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/?proxymethod=rps** -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

Upvotes: 0

anon
anon

Reputation: 31

just ran into the exact same problem.

the solution was to run Microsoft Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell 'as administrator' (Elevated)

as seen here https://www.blackforce.co.uk/2016/09/23/set-userphoto-error-proxy-command

Upvotes: 3

Preston Cooper
Preston Cooper

Reputation: 1

If you are in hybrid mode and thumbnailPhoto property is synched, you can only change the user photo in your local Active Directory and not in Office 365 Exchange PowerShell session.
If you are not in hybrid mode you can try this sample code instead:

Set-UserPhoto "username" -PictureData ([Byte[]] $(Get-Content -Path "C:\userpics\username.jpg" -Encoding Byte -ReadCount 0)) -Confirm:$false

Upvotes: 0

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