On the first view there seems to be no difference, but when you look closer you will see that in the second request the response contains an additional header X-SOAP-Enabled. Now that I knew how it works in general, I started tracing and the tool for this is Fiddler (read my post for practical usage).įirst have a look into the Autodiscover requests GetUserSetting is only available as SOAP request. SOAP allows you to request single user settings. The main difference is that POX returns a complete configuration with basic information. Whereas when EWS is used it’s a SOAP request.Īs mentioned in the protocol details here, GetUserPhoto uses the Internal/ExternalPhotosURL from the Autodiscover response for GetUserSetting.Īutodiscover service supports 2 different services: Those are complete different ways as when you’re using REST the URL is like this: Server/ews/Exchange.asmx/s/GetUserPhoto?email=email address&size=size To retrieve the photo from a mailbox you could use two options: When the picture is uploaded to user’s mailbox, the picture is stored in the root of your mailbox in the item IPM.UserPhoto in different resolutions: There are two ways to configure your profile picture:
