From any SharePoint page, if you click "Welcome (Name)" in the upper right-hand corner and select "My Settings", you are taken to a page that is titled "User Information: (Name) - (domain\logiin)". What displays on this page is data about the logged in user. Does anyone have ideas as to where this data is coming from? It does not pull directly from the profile database as the data is not current. I assume it pulls from some location that is a snapshot of how the data in the profile DB looked with the Site Collection was created. A user brought this to my attnetion. She was recently married and her name has been changed in all of our IT systems, including Active Directory and the SharePoint Profile database; however, on our portal homepage, it still welcomes her using her maiden name. After looking at my own data, I realized that it is not current. Our AD was not fully populated when our portal was created and this reflects that incompleteness. Did we do something wrong on our deployment or is this just how SharePoint functions?Either way,how do I refresh that data? Thanks.

You are correct in that SharePoint saves a local copy of user data when the user first logs in. This can be fixed -- but unfortunately there is no way to do it in mass for all sites. If you have a limited number of site collections, the user can edit this themselves or you can do it for them from the /_layouts/siteusrs.aspx. You can read more about this from a blog by Keith Richie (who has an unsupported tool for this) here: http://blogs.msdn.com/krichie/archive/2006/02/18/534767.aspx

With MOSS 2007, there is a Profile Sync timer job than runs repeatedly to update all the user information that is cached in the Site Collection. You should check whether that job is running successfully.. Venky (Sharepoint - MSFT)

Venky, How do you check to make sure the Profile Sync timer job than runs repeatedly to update all the user information is running successfully? I am not familar with that process or even where it is located?