What are the powershell commands to update user profile to update pictures?

Question

Here is the scenario.

1. I have a development farm.
2. I copied all the pictures from production mysite to dev mysite so now all the pictures are in the mysite:8000/employees/User Photos/ Library.

Is there a powershell command I can run to update user profiles for picture url?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try the below powershell code to update picture for a given user,

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")

$siteurl = "http://<MySiteHost URL>/"

$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteurl)
$context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($site)

#This gets the User Profile Manager which is what we want to get hold of the users
$upm = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context)
$groups = $site.RootWeb.sitegroups

foreach ($grp in $groups) 
{
foreach ($user in $grp.users) 
{
"User: " + $user.name
if ($upm.UserExists($user))
{
$profile = $upm.GetUserProfile($user)
$profile["PictureURL"].Value = "<MySiteHostURL>/User%20Photos/Profile%20Pictures/user.jpg";
$profile.Commit();
}
}
}
$site.Dispose()

Source

Hope this helps you.

Answer 2

If I understand correctly, you have my sites in dev that have been copied from production. The profiles that have pictures have URLs that point to production. You have also copied the actual pictures from production to the User Photos library in the dev my site host.

If this is correct, I can tell you what I did in this situation.

Others have mentioned Update-SPProfilePhotoStore and that is what I used.

From TechNet:

During the migration of profile photos from one server URL to another, one can use the OldBaseUri and NewBaseUri parameters. You just need to specify the starting portion of the URL that has changed from old to new and an attempt to rebase the profile picture URLs will occur. For example, OldBaseUri: http://server1/my/ProfilePhotos; NewBaseUri: http://server1/my/NewLocation/ProfilePhotos

Just make sure that all the pictures exist in the new location before running it.