Office 365 Lync 2013 - Unable to Upload a Profile Image

I encountered this issue few weeks back and found it to be very perplexing, especially since the upgrade to O365 2013. Users who tried to change their profile picture in Lync 2013 or Exchange Online were greeted with a message that told them they did not have permissions to do so, even global admins got the error. After joining a community forum as well as starting a service request through the support portal I was able to get a resolution to the issue.

Turns out the upgrade has a few bugs (who knew) and that Microsoft has a hotfix they can apply if your service is showing a permission issue like mine. Ill include the link to the forum below so you can add to it and get your issue resolved as well.

Microsoft did get this resolved and fairly quick too. Good luck!



Community Link

Set Office365 Password Expiration (Business Accounts) - 2013 Edition

Since Microsoft has started upgrading accounts under the Office 365 umbrella the Admin Center has changed a lot and might be a bit confusing for some simple operations. I will take you through the steps below to change your users password expiration policy.

The main dashbard for O365

1. Log into the Admin Portal HERE

2. On the left find Service Settings

3. Now on the top navigation bar, find Passwords

4. Edit the password expiration age, and notification options and click Save.


I know this is a simple operation, but I hope this helps.

For reference, the policy settings used to be under Users and Groups.

Office365 and SkyDrive....not compatible?

It seems silly that two products from the same company aren't compatible, worse yet they let you sign up for both with the same email before throwing you lots of nice errors to make it warm and cosy.

I am talking about Microsofts Office 365 Suite and Sky Drive.

Long story short, if you decide to log into Sky Drive with your Office 365 account, you will be unable to log into your Office 365 account until you log completely out of the web page and then proceed to O365. Not doing so prompts your Office 365 address to redirect to Outlook.com making things about as confusing and useless as my finger on an LCD monitor.


EDIT (1/3/2014) : Since posting this Microsoft has made big strides in Office 365 by adding SkyDrive Pro support and increasing its compatibility across all of its services (including One Note for Mobile)