Unable to retrieve photos from the Graph API

Question

Our app uses the following link to obtain photos from the Graph API.

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/USER_ID/photo/$value

and this was working well until recently. 3-4 days ago we noticed that guest users in our Azure AD no longer have access to any profile images in the system, and get the following error:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "UnknownError",
        "message": "{\r\n  \"errorCode\": \"ErrorAccessDeniedForUser\",\r\n  \"message\": \"Exception of type 'Microsoft.Fast.Profile.Core.Exception.ProfileUnauthorizedException' was thrown.\",\r\n  \"target\": null,\r\n  \"details\": null,\r\n  \"innerError\": null,\r\n  \"instanceAnnotations\": []\r\n}",
        "innerError": {
            "date": "2021-12-21T14:25:36",
            "request-id": "9684bb8a-c2d9-4ecc-a97c-e2ea683038d6",
            "client-request-id": "9684bb8a-c2d9-4ecc-a97c-e2ea683038d6"
        }
    }
}

"Regular" users are still able to access the profile images, it is just the guest users who cannot.

We also tried the same with the new, non-beta endpoint

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/USER_ID/photo/$value

But we get the same result. We know that this was working until recently but no longer does.

Answer 1

Hi @Jaspreet Bakshi

It should be that the default access permissions of the guest user are restricted. You can log in to the Azure portal as a global administrator, then find User settings>External collaboration settings, and then choose Guest users have the same access as members (most inclusive).
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Another method is to grant guest users the role of user administrator.

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Answer 2

Whats the word thunderbird? Any updates??