Thanks jrv, however, doesn't that last method get the thumbnailphoto from the AD account? Sadly, we have the photo only stored in Office 365 and not sync'd back to AD.

Or should I be doing;

$user = Get-UserPhoto user@domain.com
$user.thumbnailphoto | Set-Content "C:\Export\Photo$($user.Identity).jpg" -Encoding byte

Actually, looking at the methods for Get-UserPhoto, there is one called "PictureData" which is a Byte type. So I guess this might be better;

$user = Get-UserPhoto user@domain.com
$user.PictureData |Set-Content "C:\Export\Photo$($user.Identity).jpg" -Encoding byte

Just tested this and, IT WORKS!

Thanks for putting me on the right track jrv.

• Edited by Robin F Herbert Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:49 PM update with thanks message
• Marked as answer by Robin F Herbert Friday, January 09, 2015 12:21 PM

Thanks jrv, however, doesn't that last method get the thumbnailphoto from the AD account? Sadly, we have the photo only stored in Office 365 and not sync'd back to AD.

Or should I be doing;

$user = Get-UserPhoto user@domain.com
$user.thumbnailphoto | Set-Content "C:\Export\Photo$($user.Identity).jpg" -Encoding byte

Actually, looking at the methods for Get-UserPhoto, there is one called "PictureData" which is a Byte type. So I guess this might be better;

$user = Get-UserPhoto user@domain.com
$user.PictureData |Set-Content "C:\Export\Photo$($user.Identity).jpg" -Encoding byte

Just tested this and, IT WORKS!

Thanks for putting me on the right track jrv.

• Edited by Robin F Herbert Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:49 PM update with thanks message
• Marked as answer by Robin F Herbert Friday, January 09, 2015 12:21 PM

If  you get the user object this should work:
$user.thumbnailphoto |
    Set-Content "c:\ADexport\Photos$($User.samaccountname).jpg" -Encoding byte

Thanks jrv, however, doesn't that last method get the thumbnailphoto from the AD account? Sadly, we have the photo only stored in Office 365 and not sync'd back to AD.

Or should I be doing;

$user = Get-UserPhoto user@domain.com
$user.thumbnailphoto | Set-Content "C:\Export\Photo$($user.Identity).jpg" -Encoding byte

Actually, looking at the methods for Get-UserPhoto, there is one called "PictureData" which is a Byte type. So I guess this might be better;

$user = Get-UserPhoto user@domain.com
$user.PictureData |Set-Content "C:\Export\Photo$($user.Identity).jpg" -Encoding byte

Just tested this and, IT WORKS!

Thanks for putting me on the right track jrv.

• Edited by Robin F Herbert 22 hours 43 minutes ago update with thanks message

Get-UserPhoto says it returns a user object.  Have you tried it?

Hi all,

I can use Get-UserPhoto cmdlet to find out about a users' photo (via msonline module etc.), but how (if at all) can I use it to actually retrieve the photo itself?

And, if I can't use this cmdlet, how else could I script it for a user to retrieve their own photo from Office 365?

(What I'd like to do is to use that photo as the Windows 8(.1) account picture, which people have written simple scripts for already IF that photo comes from AD. e.g., http://blog.jourdant.me/ps-setting-windows-8-account-picture-from-ad/)

Many thanks!

Robin

Try this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj900502(v=exchg.150).aspx

So, in your experience, the powershell command cannot be used to retrieve a users photo from Office 365, but the SOAP method does allow you to do so?

(Or did you just put a link you just googled for?)

Sadly, my skills with SOAP are rather limited; how would you tie this into a VB or Powershell script?

We would use the EWS library for PowerShell or use New-WebProxy to handle all of the soap stuff.

The Get-UserPhoto returns a user object which has a thumbnail property.  You can save that as a byte array to a file with a jpg extension.  Look in the repository for examples.

Any idea how to determine if a user has a user photo uploaded?  I can do this:

$userphoto=get-userphoto user@domain.com

and then check for $userphoto -eq null  , but when I do that, if the user has no photo the get-userphoto throws an error and takes quite awhile (5-10 seconds) to return. I was hoping there might be a faster way, since I have 15K user accounts to check.

Thanks.

if($userphoto=get-userphoto user@domain.com -ea 0){

      'get a user phot'

}else{

    'no user photo'

} 

Hi,

Know this post has already been answered but it helped me with what I needed to do.  I wanted to download all user photos from O365 and came up with the following one-liner

get-mailbox | % {Get-UserPhoto $_.identity} | % {Set-Content -path "C:\temp\$($_.identity).jpg" -value $_.picturedata -Encoding byte}

Hopefully it might come in useful for someone.

Steve.