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New Teams - Backgrounds Folder
Recently, Microsoft released the new version of Teams for businesses, allowing the option to move end users to the new version or keep them on classic mode. However, one thing we've noticed is th...
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."
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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".
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- This is where the Background folder is for the Microsoft Teams New.
C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams - This is where the folder is.
C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams
