Jabber Contact search and Photo

[jherlitzke]

I have edited our jabber config file to use Active Directory for it's directory search as well as importing and displaying contact photo.

Now since we are fully O365 and our help desk staff are only updating contact photo's in O365.  Thus our AD directory is out of date and not being updated.

What do you feel is my best option:

A: Can I change up jabber config file to use O365 directory for directory search and if so, can I also bring in the contact photo from O365?

B: Find a way to sync O365 contact photos with Active Directory?

Being O365 is becoming very widely used, I feel I may get a lot of useful information by asking this question.  Thank you all in advance for your responses.

[Ratheesh Kumar]

Hi there

Cisco Jabber for Windows has been tested with small business plan P1 of Microsoft Office 365. This plan requires an on-premises Active Directory server.

Check out the post from Jonathan

https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/unified-communications/jabber-11-8-photo-display-office365/td-p/3057742

You might need a web server would need to support anonymous access and the URL would need to support a simple URL substitution. Another option would be to point Jabber at Active Directory binary object such as the thumbnailPhoto attribute; however, this will not work for MRA-connected users. The URL will work even if the server is inside the firewall as long as you include it on the Expressway-C HTTP Allow List.

Another option to consider is a script that replicates photos out of either the Active Directory attribute or off of the authenticated website to an internal server. That script could possibly simply run as a scheduled task every N hours to put the photos in a location Jabber can easily consume.

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Rath!

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[Jonathan Schulenberg]

The crux of your question is really a Microsoft topic, not Cisco. “How do I sync thumbnailPhoto from Azure AD to on-premise AD?” The answer appears to be that you can’t:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/f3645c92-6307-4810-82a3-a5af7df71445/how-do-i-take-the-user-image-from-office-365-azure-ad-and-populate-the-thumbnailphoto-attribute-in?forum=WindowsAzureAD

Writing a script that retrieves those photos and places them on a web server does seem possible though:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azuread/get-azureaduserthumbnailphoto?view=azureadps-2.0