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aaronm443
Mar 29, 2023Copper Contributor
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 ...
yamautomate
Aug 08, 2023Copper Contributor
aaronm443
Just worked on this. Yes, custom Backrgounds can be deployed here:
%localappdata%\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds\Uploads
Make sure you follow the notation of Backgrounds you add manually. Seems the new Teams client renames the files to "a GUID.jpeg". If you follow that notation, your backgrounds appear in the new Teams.
I copied the filename of a BG I added manually and incremented a number. Seems to work so far. I can definitely see MSFT pay-walling this though.