Unable to get other user's photo thumbnail using Microsoft Graph API

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According to this official document List thumbnails for a DriveItem, we can get OneDrive photo thumbnails by using this API.

When I sent a request to get a photo thumbnail from my OneDrive with Microsoft Graph API, server returned 200 and worked fine.

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{my user id}/drive/items/{my photo object id}/thumbnails

However while trying to get a photo thumbmail from other user's onedrive, the server returned 404 not found.

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{other user's id}/drive/items/{other user's photo id}/thumbnails

I really sure that the other user's photo exists and that the id is correct.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a restriction around accessing other users' OneDrive photos?

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1 Answers

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At this point in time, it is not possible for a user to query another user's OneDrive.

You can confirm by querying the root of the drive.

For yourself, you'll see the list of files in the drive:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{my user id}/drive/root/children

However, for any other user, you'll get back an empty collection (even though there are files present in that drive).

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{other user's id}/drive/root/children