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MicrosoftBackground blur in GA on Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
UPDATE on 6/29:
If you do not see the UI for Background Effects in Teams on AVD, install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable on your client machine running the Remote Desktop app and try again.
UPDATE on 5/19:
Microsoft Teams background effects is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop! Refer to this blog post for more details!
UPDATE on 5/17/22:
Our investigation has concluded, and we have finished validating the new release. Background effects (background blur & custom background images) are rolling out this week in addition to multi-window. Stay tuned to new blog posts.
UPDATE on 2/25/22:
We discovered an issue when rolling out background blur in GA. We have paused the rollout for further investigation. We will provide updates in the coming weeks.
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We are happy to announce that background blur is rolling out this week to the public on Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 for Windows endpoints! One of the top customers asks, background blur helps users avoid unexpected disruptions and create a more private environment during video meetings.
Use background blur on Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop
To use this feature, please install Windows Desktop Client version 1.2.2924.0 or later. Please refer to Change your background for a Teams meeting on how to turn on background blur.
Note: We are working to support background images. Please stay tuned for the release timing!
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I have install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable on your client machine running windows the Remote Desktop app and it is working fine But i am unable to find latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for my MAC client machine hence from MAC client remote desktop app my teams background did not worked.
Please help me to share the URL from where i can download to install latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for my MAC system.
Yun_Liu please add this feature as soon as possible for VMware Horizon and Citrix Workspace too.
Azure Virtual Desktop is not the only VDI infrastructure.
For now it's a blocker to use Teams in our VDI (Horizon) environment because of this simple feature. This feature is needed because of privacy aspects.
What's the reason why this is not implemented yet for VMware Horizon and Citrix?
Why there's no roadmap item for both products?
- Yun_Liu
David_Tutas pcluskey is background effects working for you now?
- We are having problems with our Windows 365 desktops that have been rolled out to our customers where they cannot blur the background in Optimized Teams version that was rolled out with the W365 desktops.
I was told to install MsRdcWebRTCSvc_HostSetup_1.17.2205.23001_x64.msi on my Cloud PC and I installed and it worked for me. My remote desktop client is version is 1.2.3313.0 x64 and MS Teams on the cloud pc is Microsoft Teams Version 1.5.00.14473 (64-bit). AVD Media Optimized.
But others who have a later version of MS Teams does not work for them even installing MsRdcWebRTCSvc_HostSetup_1.17.2205.23001_x64.msi- When rolling out AVD to 100s of users do I use the 1) "windows 10 multisession + Microsoft 365 Apps" image or do I install the 2) windows 10 multi session and install the Teams Machine Wide installer separately ? or does it not make any difference.
Yun_Liu yes thanks. It slowly started working for a few test users one by one. As I've already said this isn't the best user experience for a rollout as users will try the feature and find it's not working. Great work in implementing it though, along with popout chat it's another step in getting partity on avd teams with the desktop version
- support for Teams Optimized session would be fantastic, please add this feature.
- Thanks for getting this over the line, Pop out windows now has appeared, but background blur, whilst showing in the sidebar, does nothing when I click 'apply'. Same for the other background effects. Anyone else had this? If people see the feature and it doesnt work, it will cause more support tickets than if it wasn't there in the first place.
- Yun_LiuThanks for the feedback. We found and fixed an issue late last week during the Background Effects rollout that effected a portion of the population. The fix is already rolling out and should be 100% by end of week. The fix is on the backend so there is nothing for the user to install. If you still cannot use Background Effects by end of week (5/27), do let us know. We are here to help.
Yun_Liu this is now working for me so the fix must have rolled out.
Brilliant to finally have this feature in AVD. Caused a lot of issues with our user base that the feature was missing.Also, the multi-window support is another great plus!
- Same here
Yun_Liu I believe the update is trying to come through, but it's not updating. I've restarted Teams multiple times, logged out and back on within Teams and restarted the VDI. I continue to get this message.
Yun_Liu Teams on VDI is really turning out to be depressing rollout for all of our users. Users (and me frankly) cannot understand how an application from a 2 trillion dollar company can be this archaic and unrelaible.
Funny enough, Zoom on AVD works 20 times better than Teams. Whoever is managing Teams for VDI should be more transparent with us on the ongoing quality and reliability issues and what is being done to fix them and a timeline. Your partners are facing the customer feeling highly embarassed and in the position to cover for Microsoft's failure on this product.
Its really disgraceful.
- Hi there, thanks for the update. I'm on 1.2.2924 Insider, but don't see the blur option - I presume you're making backend changes - is there a specific Teams for VDI version? I'm on 1.500.2164 which I believe is the latest.
Any news on pop out chat for VDI, which for my users is more of a priority?
thanks,
Paul.- Yun_LiuHi Paul,
It usually takes about a week to roll out to all customers. You should expect to have the blur option by Friday (2/25). There's no requirement for a specific Teams for VDI version.
For multi-window (pop out chat), it's a top customer ask. We're busily working to bring it to VDI but no dates to announce yet.
Yun
