Environment: SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition, February 2012 CU

We didn't synchronise profile pictures with our Active Directory so far, but decided to change that. We tested it in our dev environment, and it worked. We tried it in our prod environment, and it doesn't work.

What we did was

• have a connection to ap.ourdomain, and a connection to all the other domains (uk.ourdomain, sa.ourdomain, am.ourdomain, ...)
• Add the User Property mapping Picture (SP) <- thumbnailPhoto (AD) (for both connections)
• ran an incremental sync, but later also full sync
• ran Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -MySiteHostLocation mysite -CreateThumbnailsForImportedPhotos $true with the correct account (farm admin) (Note: mysite resolves to mysite.ap.ourdomain for us, for colleagues in Europe it resolves to mysite.eu.ourdomain, etc.)

Still, pictures don't show up for our users. We noticed that some pictures actually DO show up for users outside of ap.ourdomain who've got their photo in their MySite (so the PictureURL for colleagues in the US may be mysite.am.ourdomain/User Photos/Profile Pictures/....)

Is there any way to check if the photos are indeed imported from AD? Anything we did wrong?

Update: Checked in the FIM client, thumbnailPhoto is synced as seen in DS_FULLSYNC, but no photos show up in MOSS_EXPORT