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Teams Custom Background Fails
We recently got the +Add New option for custom backgrounds in our Teams. I've added a number of images, but there is one I try to add and it fails. I get the following message: Couldn't upload ima...
I had this problem this morning but I seem to have solved it.
I couldn't add a new background whilst on an active Teams call, just kept complaining didn't meet Image requirements (even though it did). Both the Add new and also dropping into the appdata folder didn't work.
I quit Teams and restarted it, then rejoined my meeting. Now in Background settings it had picked up all the pictures I had previously dropped into %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads
Piss poor application that will not tell you what is wrong. This operation should NOT be this hard. This should be the easiest thing in the world but no Microsoft cannot even get this right.