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Copper Contributor

Oct 21, 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...

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!

GabrielFranco

Copper Contributor

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!

Homer911

Copper Contributor

Apr 10, 2025

Some progress, as a user, I need to add the backgrounds via the Join Meeting UI. The backgrounds then get loaded to the cache folder and two thumbnails are created for each background. This must register the backgrounds with Teams. It doesn't seem to be possible to just drop the files in a folder, restart Teams and expect to see them in the list..