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MVP

Apr 06, 2020

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Custom Background Images for Teams Meetings

Teams allows you to use a set of images selected by Microsoft as the background for meetings. It’s a nice feature, even if it lacks the ability to upload and use a custom image of your own. This ...

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TonyRedmond
Apr 14, 2020
Sava_Jeremic

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).

TonyRedmond

MVP

May 12, 2020

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.

Mr_Guy

Copper Contributor

May 12, 2020

TonyRedmond

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.

TonyRedmond
MVP
May 12, 2020
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.