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GabrielFranco
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Oct 20, 2023
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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...
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    GabrielFranco
    Oct 23, 2023

    Suleman_Yakubu 

     

    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!

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GabrielFranco
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Oct 23, 2023

Suleman_Yakubu 

 

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!

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Homer911
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Apr 10, 2025

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds is the cache folder - images only appear here after you have applied them in Teams for the first time.

The available backgrounds as listed in the Teams UI don't seem to physically exist as png or jpg files on the local drive so they must be compressed somewhere.  I cant see where to add custom backgrounds to make them available to Teams.  I tried placing them in the cache folder in Teams and completely restarting but still cant see them