Allow users to edit their personal info
Under Office 365 settings > Personal info, only admins can change their own details.
I understand this is restricted to prevent abuse. However, organizations should be given the freedom to choose whether or not to lift this restriction. I suggest an additional option/rule under Exchange's user roles.
Please also add the field "Title" to the Personal info section if it's not the currently displayed "Occupation".
Bart Stevens
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Anonymous
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Unbelievable. I just wasted 2 hours of my day only to learn even though my settings say users can change their address and contact information, they actually can't. Is this for real?
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Anonymous
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Heather Britton
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This should be a setting that the an admin can allow individuals to update. Please hear our pleas!
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Branimir Filinic
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I don't understand why this is not available yet!
I need to edit this info for every user in my organization myself, instead of being able to choose which settings the users can edit themselves.
I'm sure there are thousands more administrators with these issues that haven't bothered to leave a comment here. I almost didn't myself.
Is anyone in MS hearing our pleas?Thank you.
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Roger Greenlee
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Do this please!
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Cara Hunter
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We have over 400 users and this is very time consuming for me to edit each and every one of them when a title changes. We would love for them to have the opportunity to do it themselves. Of course we don't want them changing email or display name because of our standard naming conventions.
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Frederik
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First use this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff852817(v=exchsrvcs.149).aspx
Then send this link to your users: https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/options/myaccount -
Anonymous
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There are settings in Office365 admin to allow the editing of this information, but it doesn't allow the user to do anything. Users are presented with an "Update your profile" page where they can't update the important things - they can only add fax, and "about me". Useless and annoying! Yes, I am rather put out about this.
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Anonymous
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I have over 500 users in my domain; I don't want to have to update their personal info myself! I think it is absurd to provide an option for them to edit their info and then not let them. Of course, I want to not allow them to change their name and primary email address - but I do want them to be able to update their phone number and mailing address. I don't want this to be my task! I want the other users in the domain to be able to find each other's contact info.
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Jeff West
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This is especially important with MFA. The user should be able to change the authentication phone number without bugging the admin
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Jesús Trujillo
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+1
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Alan Bolster
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+1
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Anonymous
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Organization should be given the freedom which field can be edit by Users themselves.
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Danny
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we got the same problem over here...seems there is no solution for this yet. @Microsoft....can you tell us if there are any plans for this feature?
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Anonymous
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Why is this even a restriction. Organizations should have the freedom to choose what their users are able to do.
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Mike
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a MS support tech seemed suggest end user can do this, and I advised a customer. then a few hours later , the customer said it is not true, an end user could not change the personal info page. what a drama
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Rick Pa
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I am experiencing the same issue. People that install the outlook app for android and iPhone are getting their personal email account grabbed from there and placed into their profile as the alternate email address. I have a user that is billing administrator and her personal phone account is being broadcasted to other admins via the email address being included in system emails. She is very upset about that. Imagine if that personal email account was profane? How would that look? We need to stop the system from grabbing and publishing personal information without their consent.
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Anonymous
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desperately needed. with about 200 employees and a quickly evolving organization i simply cant keep up with all the changes. i would like people to be able to update their personal info themselves.
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Maarten Kumpen
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+1
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James Lee
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Yes this is definitely need!
I want my users to modify more personal information like their job Occupation field!