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Select my Background option not visible in my MS Teams
Hi, I have two laptops from work , don't seem to have "Select my Background option" visible in my MS Teams in one of them. For that particular model of the laptop no one in the company seems to h...
We encountered the very same issue and after some significant hunting, we isolated the issue to 3 JSON files that need replacing.
I have included these files within the zip file attached.
To ensure that this works for you, follow the steps below:
1. Sign out of Teams (do not just exit the application), and wait until the application asks you to sign in.
2. Close/Exit Teams by right clicking on the Teams icon in the system tray and selecting Quit.
3. Extract the zip file to a location of your choosing and copy the extracted files.
4. Browse to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams and paste the 3 files you extracted in step 3 into that folder, replacing the originals.
5. Launch Teams again and sign in.
6. Enjoy your Backgrounds feature.
Please note that this fix will only work if your laptop/PC has the capable hardware to support this feature.
Hope this helps you!
Seems to be a massive bug here Microsoft isn't addressing.
We have thirty computers in our group and all the exact same hardware / age and all have Teams 1.3.00.12058 installed. 23 have the "show background effects" option, 7 do not. Sad that after so many years it's still the same old Microsoft.
Same with our tenant. I just put in a ticket to see if we can understand why. It's totally random. Out of 400 staff there is no explanation as to why some have the ability and others don't. I compared myself to my boss and 5 others with the exact same model laptop and all the exact same version of Teams, I don't have the feature, my boss does, and 1 other but 2 others don't. 2 in our IT dept received it but the rest did not. Frustrating not understanding the root of that.