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Jan_Steberl
Microsoft
MicrosoftNow in Public preview & Targeted release: Animated backgrounds in Teams meetings
The animated backgrounds feature in Teams meetings allows you to replace an existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance...
we used to do this too, however sharing custom backgrounds this way is now a Teams Premium feature. If you want to upload new backgrounds without Premium, you have to upload them individually now as you do if you're starting a meeting.
Or you apply a group policy or a management directive to copy some backgrounds into that folder
- Microsoft told us again last week through the UK escalation path that this method isn't possible and will not work - and reiterated that the only way this can be done is 'via the Teams Premium features'. Still ongoing.
See https://www.workplaceascode.com/2020/04/17/distribute-custom-backgrounds-for-teams-via-intune/
or
https://janbakker.tech/manage-teams-custom-backgrounds-using-intune/Answer from bingchat:
To distribute custom backgrounds for Teams via Intune, you can follow the steps below:
- Open the Intune blade Device Configuration | scripts.
- Add a new script by using the add button followed by Windows 10.
- Give the name a logical name like Add-CustomBackgroundsForTeams.
- Add the script from your local computer.
- Select the option run script in 64 bits PowerShell Host (the script includes components who are not present in the 32-bits PowerShell host!).
The script is reusable in case the background(s) needs to be updated, and it is usable in a multi-user scenario1.
I hope that helps!
MatthiasRodler Hi, thank you for this, but this method is what we gave been doing, and no longer works for us in Teams 2.0. Are you able to do this via New Teams? We can add the backgrounds in the same way as ‘Classic’, but only users with a Premium license can see and select them.
