Hi All

We have recently gone through the process of uploading user photos to Exchange 2013.

Users are able to change there own photos via OWA.

How can we stop this? Can we allow certain users to update other photos, these users will not be members of IT?

Regards

This is the second question I have seen about this recently...

Anyway this can be controlled by an OWA policy.

You will need to create a policy to remove the ability to change the photos, then adjust the policy to remove the permission:

Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -Name "Default OWA Policy" -SetPhotoEnabled $false

Then you will need to apply the policy to the mailboxes:

Get-Mailbox | Set-CASMailbox  -OwaMailboxPolicy  "Default OWA Policy"

If you already have an OWA policy in place, then adjust that instead. Remember that a user can only have only policy applied to their account (which you can see with get-casmailbox username) so if you are going to have multiple policies (allowing some to change the photos) then plan carefully.

Simon.