Microsoft teams no background option
However, how to make it?ĭon't fret, this post will help you out. Fortunately, Microsoft Teams Meeting allows you to blur or change your background before or during a call.
My dear colleague Adrian Ritter wrote a small PowerShell script to automate this: # Path to Backgrounds Teams 2.While you are attending a Microsoft Teams meeting at home, you may want to blur your background and conceal everything behind you because of the messy room, some other unexpected things, or others. Microsoft recommends resizing the thumb to 280 x 158 pixel and the image file to 1920 x 1080 pixel. The trick is that Microsoft Teams client 2.1 expects the image file with a GUID and two files for a single image: a thumb file and the image file itself. It took me some time to find the right article, at the end it’s simple. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an option to bulk deploy new custom images as backgrounds for Microsoft Teams video calls without a Premium Addon license? Of course, background images are just a small piece of the whole Premium license package which includes so much more useful features for Microsoft Teams meetings.ĭeploy Microsoft Teams backgrounds without Premium Addon It’s easy to use but has the disadvantage that it needs to be licensed. When you’ve created this policy and assigned it to a user, the uploaded images will deploy to the client PC and are available to the user. You can upload up to 50 images and Microsoft recommends JPG or PNG files with a size between 360 pixel x 360 pixel up to 3840 pixel x 2160 pixel: Microsoft offers for this task the Premium Addon which also includes an option to deploy your company images to your client computers centrally by the Teams Admin Center. Background images by Teams Policy and Teams Premium Addon Even you copy your image to this folder, it will not be available as background in the Teams client. Ok, you might think it’s simple: copy an existing image to this folder, restart the Microsoft Teams client, and then you can select the copied image as background when you start a new video call.īut unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it was in the past. You can find a subfolder located in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds where the Teams client stores uploaded, customized background images, but also the Microsoft provided and already used images and animations.
The client uses a structure in a subfolder Packages of the local App folder for this. The new Microsoft Teams client 2.1 changed the folder where the user related information and settings are stored. Microsoft Teams Client 2.1 and background images – Status Quo This blog post will show you a way how to handle and solve it.
If you copy your images to the appropriate folder, the images will not appear in Microsoft Teams when you try to select your wallpaper. However, with the new Teams client, this mechanism no longer seems to work. In the past, we could just copy our images to a dedicated Microsoft Teams folder and then we were good to go. Microsoft will start soon to rollout the new Microsoft Teams client 2.1 and a lot of customers are asking how to bulk deploy customized background images to their clients.