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New Teams - Backgrounds Folder
This folder is used by the older version of Teams, and the folder you mentioned is the same one I talked about - %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams.
The new Teams version has moved this folder, and while searching on my device, I found the images at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds\Uploads."
Tks!
This folder is used by the older version of Teams, and the folder you mentioned is the same one I talked about - %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams.
The new Teams version has moved this folder, and while searching on my device, I found the images at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds\Uploads."
Tks!
Yes I found the folder.
But I copy the files like in "old" Teams and the Images where not visible in Teams. Have you any Ides ?
Joerg
- You need to rename the images to UIDs and also add thumbnail images. In this blog article you'll find a PoSh script to da that: https://smbtothecloud.com/deploy-custom-backgrounds-to-new-teams-with-remediations/ After that, put the images in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds\Uploads".
Further to AdminOnCloud9 excellent post, if you want to add your own animated backgrounds (aka video!) then you can't at the moment (Feb 2024) but there is a workaround:
- Enter a meeting and change your background to each of the available built-in animated backgrounds, this downloads them all and 'registers' them in the app.
- Browse to the New Teams background folder [%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds], note that there are .mp4 files for each of the animated backgrounds downloaded above.
- Copy your own video to the same folder.
- Rename/delete one of the animated backgrounds and rename your video to it e.g. My-Video.mp4 > feelingDreamy2Animated_v=0.1.mp4
Now whenever you select the associated built-in animated background, your video will play instead.
Hope this helps.
This is the actual solution. I did it before reading this but yeah this is absolutely the solution. Thanks!
- the real MVP comment here, thanks for the helpful blogpost.
- Some additional info, specifically answering the OP's question of where the Classic Teams backgrounds went. In my case, they did not get copied to the New Teams location mentioned above. However, as soon as I toggled the switch in New Teams to go back to Classic, the \Backgrounds\ folder was re-created in %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams, and it included all of the custom uploads, allowing me to copy those out. At least you could manually add those as backgrounds in New Teams (one by one) if you didn't want to use the fancy UUID automation--though that is a very useful link!
Hello, and would it be possible to apply via gpo, as it was before? Because I added the file after the UUID was created, but it doesn't copy via gpo, is there any option? Thanks
