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Posted on by fmourtaza

Hello mate,

We have got a requirement to update the employees photo in Office 365 - hence I found the handy action "Office 365 > Update my profile photo" - it works only for the users owning the flow - is there any way to impersonate such actions ?

Any alternative approach are welcome.

Thanks and regards.

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CFernandes 8,402 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@fmourtaza

It is not allowed to Impersonate an action in Power Automate, you can vote up the idea at https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Ideas/Allow-Impersonation-in-Flow-Actions/idi-p/85844

Perhaps you can use the Graph API using an HTTP action(premium connector) and update the profile.

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fmourtaza 98 on at

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Hi @CFernandes

Already tried but not getting the desired results - the content image seems too lengthy - I have one post still open in this forum
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Using-Flows/Update-user-profilephoto-from-CDS-to-AD-using-Graph-Api/m-p/723260#M18609

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Can you decouple the Flow, perhaps run a child Flow under a different connection. Something similar to https://clavinfernandes.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/decouple-the-flow-from-the-power-app-to-prevent-end-user-authentication-using-child-flow/

I have not tried the approch with reference your scenario but it might be worth a try. Also please upvote the idea I mentioned in my previous email if not already done.

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fmourtaza 98 on at

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@CFernandes

In fact the flow has 2 actions only
1. Get the image content
2. Post the image using HTTP action

so I dont think so decoupling a flow will help here as the length of the image seems a problem.

As well I am not sure if HTTP action is the optimal approach in this case.

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MrPT 4 on at

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Had a similar need and used the manage run only user to decide if the logged in user or another account (e.g. service account) is to be used. did you try that option?
here is addition info of how it worked
Impersonation Trials – PowerAutomate – HeyMrT (wordpress.com)

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fmourtaza 98 on at

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Hey @MrPT, thanks for your inputs however I dropped the Flow approach.

Instead I went for Azure WebJobs, I have described the entire steps here

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Olman 3 on at

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Even if the @fmourtaza abandoned this approach, this answer should be marked as the correct solution, since the goal is achieved. Too bad he couldn't check it, but it is indeed a solution. In my case, the requirement was to change the access levels of items by actions triggered by a user without those privileges, in which case, this solution was the ideal one.

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