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Thorsten Pickhan's avatar
Sep 29, 2023

[new blog post] How to deploy custom background images in Microsoft Teams 2.1

In my latest blog post, I wrote about how to deploy custom background images in Microsoft Teams 2.1.

The rollout of the new #MicrosoftTeams Client 2.1 is already underway for Microsoft Small Business customers, customers with Microsoft 365 or Office 365 contracts still have a little time until the rollout.

Accordingly, I'm asked more often how to distribute background images for your users with the new client.

Until yesterday the answer was simple: buy Teams Premium Addon, that seems to be the only way so far, and use the Teams Meeting Customization Policy.

Until yesterday 😉
Since today I can say:

Feel free to check out my latest blog post about it 👇
How to deploy custom background images in Microsoft Teams 2.1 | Office 365 Blog (thorpick.de)

Here you will learn what you need to do with your images to make them available as background images in the new Teams client, and that without Teams Premium Addon.

    • CarstenSejrBak's avatar
      CarstenSejrBak
      Copper Contributor

      Rob1966

      One way would be to just run the script on one machine and then copy the image files to a central location, so you can distribute them with your preferred method.

      E.g. another script, a Group Policy Preference or ConfigMgr package.

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