

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.

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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
