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MVP

Apr 05, 2020

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Custom Background Images for Teams Meetings

Teams allows you to use a set of images selected by Microsoft as the background for meetings. It’s a nice feature, even if it lacks the ability to upload and use a custom image of your own. This ...

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TonyRedmond
Apr 14, 2020
Sava_Jeremic

Yep. https://office365itpros.com/2020/04/06/teams-meeting-background-image/ was updated once the information started floating around the net to tell people about how to upload their custom images for PC and Mac. Note that this is unsupported by Microsoft (but the custom images work).

MVP

Apr 14, 2020

Yep. https://office365itpros.com/2020/04/06/teams-meeting-background-image/ was updated once the information started floating around the net to tell people about how to upload their custom images for PC and Mac. Note that this is unsupported by Microsoft (but the custom images work).

Copper Contributor

Apr 17, 2020

TonyRedmond what are the best dimensions for custom background?

TonyRedmond
MVP
Apr 17, 2020
JCabral In https://office365itpros.com/2020/04/06/teams-meeting-background-image/ I recommend 1920 x 1080 pixels, which seem to work well in most cases. It's also the size used for the Microsoft default images.
- Lanceter
  Brass Contributor
  Apr 29, 2020
  TonyRedmond that resolution plus PNG format. However JPG and higher res formats work as well. Place the images into the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads folder
- JCabral
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 17, 2020
  TonyRedmond Thank you.
  Be safe be at home
- Yadwinder1130
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 17, 2020
  We got it working. It was something in our internal policies blocking it.
  - Daniel Watson
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 04, 2020
    Yadwinder1130
    
    You mentioned that you had some internal policy that was blocking the Background Effects from showing up. Just wondering if you can elaborate what that might have been.
    
    We are seeing something similar within our company. The background effects are working just fine on peoples home PCs, but not on their Company PCs and they are running the same version of the Desktop app and have still only have the ability to Blur on the Company PC. So they have AVX2 support.
    
    We have an open ticket with MS support, but so far they have not been very helpful.
    
    Thanks for any insight that you might be able to share.