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Backgrounds
Has anybody worked out how to add custom backgrounds programmatically? We will need to push our corp imagery to make it available for all staff. Previously this was done by GPO putting images into %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds. The new location seems to be %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds\Uploads - however manual copy of images to this location, even if you include the image and thumb from the old location don't work. When using the GUI to add images, they are put into the uploads folder with a randomised name and auto generated thumb. I also tried copying these to a different users machine same location but it doesn't recognise them, so they must be indexed somehow elsewhere?
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- Steve_PrenticeIron Contributor
aaronm443 Interested to follow along and see how this thread goes. I'm hoping it's purely the preview nature of the new Teams, and nothing as nefarious as MS taking away functionality found in the old client in preparation to re-sell to us new functionality in "premium" Teams, which does have a centralised backgrounds deployment feature I seem to recall.