Get profile picture from Azure Active Directory

Question

We have set the Azure AD as a identity provider in our application. We want to display profile picture that should come from Azure AD, in the application.

In order to test, I have added one Windows Live Id account (which has a profile picture) in the Azure AD. We then tried it using Graph Explorer, but no luck.

How do we get the profile picture from Azure AD?

Answer 1

You can use Azure Active Directory Graph Client to get user thumbnail photo

var servicePoint = new Uri("https://graph.windows.net");
var serviceRoot = new Uri(servicePoint, "<your tenant>"); //e.g. xxx.onmicrosoft.com
const string clientId = "<clientId>";
const string secretKey = "<secretKey>";// ClientID and SecretKey are defined when you register application with Azure AD
var authContext = new AuthenticationContext("https://login.windows.net/<tenant>/oauth2/token");
var credential = new ClientCredential(clientId, secretKey);
ActiveDirectoryClient directoryClient = new ActiveDirectoryClient(serviceRoot, async () =>
{
    var result = await authContext.AcquireTokenAsync("https://graph.windows.net/", credential);
    return result.AccessToken;
});

var user = await directoryClient.Users.Where(x => x.UserPrincipalName == "<username>").ExecuteSingleAsync();
DataServiceStreamResponse photo = await user.ThumbnailPhoto.DownloadAsync();
using (MemoryStream s = new MemoryStream())
{
    photo.Stream.CopyTo(s);
    var encodedImage = Convert.ToBase64String(s.ToArray());
}

Azure AD returns user's photo in binary format, you need to convert to Base64 string