Active Directory Thumbnails, Deny Viewing for Student AD Group Only

[chrisjako]

So I've just had a member of staff (teacher) who came into the support office bitter about the fact that students can see images of staff when using email (we upload their ID photo to their AD account) and that he was upset that his students spent half the lesson screenshotting and editing profile pictures of staff in a mspaint style humorous way

 

He tried to order me to remove all staff photos at once, I told him that students misbehaving in class is a disciplinary issue, however, Is there an option to block students from being able to see the ad thumbnail but yet allow staff to see them

 

We are a large school with over 267 staff so I'd like to keep this perk available to all staff

[Ubiquitous]

If you are using the desktop Outlook client for email then you can choose to hide contact pictures by deploying the registry key detailed in this article via group policy - Stop Showing Contact Pictures in Messages.

 

If you are using the Outlook web app then I don't believe there is a way of preventing this.

Edited January 19, 2016 by Ubiquitous