ProfilePicture

Question

Hi,

i've an office 365 account where i've set a profile picture via the OWA site.  Now i would like to use the profile picture in a different azure application and would like to access the picture using the graph api.

However when i query my user object via graphexplorer "https://graph.windows.net/achieve-it.be/users/1396066d-7687-4e92-8232-95ee6392fc67?api-version=1.6" i don't see a thumbnailPhoto.  When reading the documentation i should ask the thumbnailPhoto explicitly in my query.  So I tried using the link https://graph.windows.net/achieve-it.be/users/1396066d-7687-4e92-8232-95ee6392fc67/thumbnailPhoto?api-version=1.6 but then i get the response :

Error: 404 - Not Found
 See Response Headers for details.
{"odata.error":{"code":"Request_ResourceNotFound","message":{"lang":"en","value":"Resource 'thumbnailPhoto' does not exist or one of its queried reference-property objects are not present."}}}thank you for your assistanceYves

Answer 1

Hi Yves,

Photo is stored in mailbox not in thumbnailPhoto attribute. Meanwhile, we have a dedicated MSDN forum as Vasil mentioned for developers. You can post this question there via the following link:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/home?category=usingforums&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc

Thanks for your time.

Best regards,

Ran

Answer 2

If the user uploaded photo via OWA, it will be stored in his mailbox, not in the thumbnailPhoto attribute. Not sure if/how you can access this via the Graph API, you are probably better of asking this question on the MSDN forums.