Enabling Exchange Pictures with the correct ManagementRole

Environment:

Exchange Server 2013

Skype for Business Server 2015

Issue:

Enabling the picture feature in Skype for Business so that users can upload their own pictures into Exchange Outlook Web App, however the browse button was not available

 

Resolution:

First we validated that the appropriate settings were enabled in exchange with the below cmdlets:

Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Select-Object Server,Name,SetPhotoEnabled

Get-OWAMailboxPolicy | Select-Object Name,SetPhotoEnabled

Get-CASMailbox -Identity Username | Select-Object Name,OWAMailboxPolicy

After a bit of digging I found that there was a custom ManagementRoleEntry assigned to the User Roles -> Default Role Assignment Policy. So I ran the cmdlet to see what the default parameters that are assigned to the Set-UserPhoto cmdlet with this cmdlet:

Get-ManagementRoleEntry “MyBaseOptions\Set-UserPhoto” | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Parameters

Which returned the parameters below:

I then ran the cmdlet against the custom rule and it returned an empty list of parameters.

Get-ManagementRoleEntry “MyBaseOptions_CustomRule\Set-UserPhoto” | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Parameters

So finally to fix the issue I needed to set the custom rule parameters to those of the default rule by running the below cmdlet:

$Params = Get-ManagementRoleEntry  “MyBaseOptions_CustomeRule\Set-UserPhoto”
$Params.Parameters
Add-ManagementRoleEntry MyBaseOptions_CustomRule\Set-UserPhoto  -Parameters Cancel,Confirm,Debug,DomainController,ErrorAction,ErrorVariable,Identity,IgnoreDefaultScope,OutBuffer,OutVariable,PictureData,PictureStream,Preview,Save,Verbose,WarningAction,WarningVariable,WhatIf

Once the cmdlet completed and we waited around 15 minutes for replication in the Exchange environment to occur I checked the picture in OWA and the browse button became available.

 

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