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Saturday, January 23, 2016 8:30 AM
We use a script to specify the user picture on our domain-joined Windows Pro 10 v1511 PCs.
How can I prevent users from changing their picture from Settings --> Accounts --> Your email and accounts ?
I cannot find a GPO to control this. It would be OK (actually, preferable) if the solution disables the "Your email and accounts" section all together.
Thanks for your help.
-Tony
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Friday, January 29, 2016 12:55 AM âś…Answered
I found it!
Setting this registry key will disable the user's ability to change any setting on the "Your email and accounts" settings page:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\Settings\AllowYourAccount\value = 0
There are several other keys in this tree to disable controls in the Settings App. Maybe there's some tool "Policy Manager??" that provides a GUI to this tree?
-Tony
Saturday, January 23, 2016 2:42 PM
Hello,
Please refer answers of this thread:
Let us know if this helps, Good luck :)
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Monday, January 25, 2016 8:54 AM
Hi Tony MCP,
The main issue is that you have configure the user account logo as your company logo and you want to disable the user to change the account picture, right?
We could configure the "Default picture" firstly then configure the following group policy.
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\User Accounts\Apply the default user logon picture to all users
To configure the Default picture, we could make picture of your company's logo, and save it in "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures" as "user.bmp".
How to set a default User Logon Picture for all Users in Windows 8.1(The step is applied to Windows 10, too)
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/set-a-default-user-logon-picture-for-all-users
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Best regards
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Monday, January 25, 2016 9:16 PM
Hi Tony MCP,
The main issue is that you have configure the user account logo as your company logo and you want to disable the user to change the account picture, right?
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Well, no. That would be easy (you summarized it very well).
I have a script that customizes the picture differently for each user. (well, some users may end up with the same picture, but it's rare).
The group policy you mentioned sets all accounts to the same picture. I've already set the account picture the way I want, and I only want to prevent the user from changing it.
I'd actually prefer that the "Your email and accounts" section was completely hidden.
-Tony
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 3:24 AM
Hi Tony MCP,
Your purpose is a little different.
That group policy is the only one to control the behavior of changing the user account picture.
I tried to use the process monitor to capture that option. I found the "Browser" option is related to this registry key.
HKCR\CLSID\71F96385-DDD6-48D3-A0C1-AE06E8B055FB}
We may try to configure the permission` options of this registry key as a workaround, . Please backup the registry key before we made any modifications to it. This is just an idea I figured out, you may take the risk of modifying the registry key.
Best regards
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 3:37 AM
Hi Tony MCP,
Your purpose is a little different.
That group policy is the only one to control the behavior of changing the user account picture.
I tried to use the process monitor to capture that option. I found the "Browser" option is related to this registry key.
HKCR\CLSID\71F96385-DDD6-48D3-A0C1-AE06E8B055FB}We may try to configure the permission` options of this registry key as a workaround, . Please backup the registry key before we made any modifications to it. This is just an idea I figured out, you may take the risk of modifying the registry key.
Best regards
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Thanks. I'll give that a try and let you know how well it worked.
-Tony
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 1:23 PM
Tony,
I know this is old, but I was hoping that maybe you would share your script that you used to give everyone their own pictures. We currently have one for everyone inside of AD that shows up in Outlook. We'd like to use that same picture either directly from AD, or just store it separate and use from a share or something. It sounds like you've already done exactly what we are looking for so I figured I'd reach out and ask.
TIA for any assistance
Craig
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 11:07 PM
I was hoping that maybe you would share your script that you used to give everyone their own pictures.
Craig
I'd love to, but unfortunately, this project was cancelled by management very early (too many people didn't want their photo in Outlook/Windows). So, we never got past the proof of concept phase. Therefore I don't have a working script.
Some good news though... I see on this thread some scripts that may do exactly what you want: Windows 10 Pro 1607 - Custom User Images
If I ever get a script written, I'll post it here (I still hope someday to do this project). If you get a working script, please do the same. Whoever gets it done first can help the other. :)
Thanks and good luck.
-Tony