If you read that rule closely enough, you’ll realize that in some cases when you change your profile image in SharePoint, it will update immediately in Outlook and Lync, but it won’t do so in SharePoint until you try to edit it again (and you can hit cancel) or you wait 72 hours. If a user makes multiple changes in Outlook Online with a 72 hour period, only the first and last will get pushed to SharePoint.Ī way to bypass this rule is to edit the profile image from the SharePoint My Site and then hit cancel. The reasoning behind the 72 hour delay (according to O365 support) is the extra processing power required to create the 3 sizes of profile images in SharePoint. If the user has updated his/her profile image within the last 72 hours, SharePoint will not show the update until the 72 hours has passed. If a user doesn’t go to their profile page (My Site), profile image changes won’t sync to SharePoint. The image will never show up until the user whose profile image was changed visits his/her My Site (or any page that shows the large thumbnail image) after the profile image has been changed.This hover panel is identical to what is seen in Outlook Online, and it clearly comes directly from Outlook Online (which already has the updated image). This is a rectangular hover panel that sometimes shows up when you hover on the person’s image in search results. This is not the hover card for search results that shows on the right side of the page. The image will show in the People Search Result Contact Hover immediately. However, the rules for when the image shows up in SharePoint are a little confusing: When a user’s profile image is changed from a Outlook, Lync, Set-UserPhoto, or DirSync, it shows quickly in Outlook or Lync with all of the caveats above. Not exactly how I would design a user interface, but it does the trick. To make it stick, simply edit your profile image again from SharePoint and hit cancel. Yes, believe it or not, it synchronizes to other applications, but doesn’t necessarily “stick” for SharePoint. If you have changed your profile image within the last 72 hours, the change that you made in SharePoint may persist for Outlook and Lync, but it may not persist for SharePoint.Once the user logs into Lync, the image should show up quickly to others observing that user via Lync.
#Skype profile picture not showing up Offline
Profile image synchronization between Yammer and SharePoint/Outlook/Lync does not exist (unless maybe Yammer can do a sync from AD – I didn’t look into that). What is odd, and the reason I feel compelled to discuss this, is that a user’s profile image is not necessarily synchronized everywhere you see it. The first 5 above are done by the user themselves, whereas Set-UserPhoto would be run by an administrator and DirSync is a background process. DirSync (if synchronizing AD thumbnail images).There are also several ways a user’s photo can be changed: People Picker Field (configured to show the profile image).There are several ways that users can view their profile image or somebody else’s profile image: So, the purpose of this post is to shed some light on how this works today.
But, it turns out that they are not and that the rules for how these images are synchronized across the various data stores is a little complicated. If these images were stored in a single location, this would not be a problem. In O365 there are a plethora of ways to view and configure user profile images. Background of User Photo Sync Behavior in Microsoft 365