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Custom Background Images for Teams Meetings
Yep. https://office365itpros.com/2020/04/06/teams-meeting-background-image/ was updated once the information started floating around the net to tell people about how to upload their custom images for PC and Mac. Note that this is unsupported by Microsoft (but the custom images work).
I wrote this comment to you elsewhere. Still can't figure out how the background images are ordered.
-Bah
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Right. So here's an example of how this product is rather half baked. This is just one issue- but it is a good, simple stand-in for how the product is not finished.
What order are the pictures displayed in, when you go to Background Settings? Ordered by date? Size? Filename? I can't figure it out. I shouldn't have to. But along with the inability to pin an entire team, only a channel and other navigation oddities; the way in which there's only one Teams window; the way in which searching for content in teams isn't even a joke- it just doesn't work....
This "who knows what order they are in" is one simple example of many of this this product has just been released to the public and promoted and pushed and- it's half baked.
Bah.
AFAIK the images are sorted alphabetically in two sections: the first are the set of default images from the Teams content delivery network, the second are your custom files. Please take a chill pill. When you use a default image, it is downloaded from the CDN and stored in the Backgrounds folder.
I appreciate you telling me to take a chill pill and not 'turn the keys' so much in my post. I just find that Msft tools are rather half-baked, and I'm the taste tester. The advertising showing all the happy users doesn't show one bit of functionality that actually shows how it's better than... What? Slack? AOL AIM? 😐
Thanks for figuring out the order of the images- I didn't think it would separate them into 'built in backgrounds' and 'ones in the folder'. I'll check it out.
Mr_Guy As I frequently say at conferences, never confuse marketing messages and strategy (all happiness and light) with technical reality. Teams is not the only product where fault lines sometimes show.