Access profile pictures on SharePoint /OneDrive/Office365

I had recently been asked by one of my companies HR representative to provide the profile photo for all the users in the company.

Now there are many ways you can find these photos. Our organization uses Azure Active directory and office 365.

Found this very useful blog online which describes how these Photos are synched. https://paulryan.com.au/2016/user-photos-office-365/

After going through few more blogs, found a very easy way to get all the profile pictures. Basically, there is a hidden picture library in OneDrive called 'User Photos' where all the profile pics are stored. You can access this library by using following url:
https://<yourtenant>-my.sharepoint.com/User%20Photos/Forms/Thumbnails.aspx

For Onpremise SharePoint installation, just replace your tenant name with mysite:
https://<mysite>/User%20Photos/Forms/Thumbnails.aspx 

Using SharePoint Notes

Notes are useful social feature provided by SharePoint. You can add notes internal and external pages/sites which can be later referred on MySites. The way it works is very simple. For internal/SharePoint pages:

1. Look for the following icon or links on your pages

2. If you want to tag a page as "I like it" use this link

3. If you want to add any specific custom tag to the page click

4. This will open a dialog box. Navigate to the Note Board tab on the top. Now you can enter your notes for the page

5. These notes will be visible on your MySites

Tags and Notes go hand in hand. Hence you can do similar activities with your notes as you do with your Tags. You can find the details of such activities at Using SharePoint Tags

You can also communicate with other users using Notes. Just open there profile page and on the overview tab you will find a note board. When you update this, alert messages are sent to the other person.