Microsoft Graph profile picture fetching broke

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Microsoft Graph profile picture fetching broke

Dewde 6

This used to work fine but broke down during the past 3 months. The code didn't change, the user didn't change. Seemingly Graph did.

PHP SDK

$user = $graph->createRequest('GET', '/me/photos/48x48')->setReturnType(Model\User::class)->execute();

results in

Client error: GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/photos/48x48 resulted in a 404 Not Found response:
{"error":{"code":"UnknownError","message":"{\r\n \"errorCode\": \"ErrorProfileNotFound\",\r\n \"message\": \"Exception of type 'Microsoft.Fast.Profile.Core.Exception.ProfileNotFoundException' was thrown.\",\r\n \"target\": null,\r\n \"details\": null,\r\n \"innerError\": null,\r\n \"instanceAnnotations\": []\r\n}","innerError":{"date":"2022-04-12T18:13:30","request-id":"44c9baba-8213-4587-a7d0-4793432bca1b","client-request-id":"44c9baba-8213-4587-a7d0-4793432bca1b"}}}

What can it be?

CarlZhao-MSFT 46,366 Reputation points

2022-04-13T01:44:35.277+00:00

Is your account a personal account or a work account?
Dewde 6 Reputation points

2022-04-13T07:56:52.697+00:00

API call is done on a personal AD and the queried account is a personal account
CarlZhao-MSFT 46,366 Reputation points

2022-04-13T08:17:13.56+00:00

@Dewde Please refer to my answer, metadata operation for personal accounts is not supported.

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CarlZhao-MSFT 46,366 Reputation points

2022-04-13T01:44:35.277+00:00

Is your account a personal account or a work account?
Dewde 6 Reputation points

2022-04-13T07:56:52.697+00:00

API call is done on a personal AD and the queried account is a personal account
CarlZhao-MSFT 46,366 Reputation points

2022-04-13T08:17:13.56+00:00

@Dewde Please refer to my answer, metadata operation for personal accounts is not supported.

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CarlZhao-MSFT 46,366

Hi @Dewde

I can reproduce your problem:

This is because personal Microsoft accounts do not support metadata operations and you need to log in with a work account.

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Dewde 6 Reputation points

2022-04-13T08:40:59.407+00:00

If so, how come it worked for many months before it broke on its own? And how stupid is that anyway? A user logging in my app and the app is not allowed to fetch that user's profile picture? Where else do you see such API behavior? Twitter? No. Facebook? No. Google? No. Furthermore, my app is asking for User.Read and profile grants which ALLOW the reading of the profile pic.
CarlZhao-MSFT 46,366 Reputation points

2022-04-13T09:23:09.353+00:00

Hi @Dewde I am referring to the MS graph api official doc, I am not sure if the doc has been updated in the last few months. But this is only specific to the photo's metadata though, you can of course get the profile photo of a personal account logged into the application, try calling: /me/photo/$value or /me/photos/48x48/$value api endpoint to get photos.
Dewde 6 Reputation points

2022-04-13T11:59:26.33+00:00

But this is only specific to the photo's metadata though, you can of course get the profile photo of a personal account logged into the application

No, you can't, just tried. I get the same error for GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/photos/48x48/$value. Both were working 3 months ago

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