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Plowecdlcpacom
Copper Contributor
Sep 02, 2020

Virtual Meetings

Our firm of 117 people recently started using MS Teams. The Shareholders want for everyone to use a firm chosen background for video meetings. Is there a way to block people from using a different bac...
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LinusCansby
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Sep 03, 2020

Hi,

Admins can't set a background for users. Admins can set a meeting policy to only allow blur, disable all backgrounds or only allowing the default backgrounds and blur.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-policies-in-teams#meeting-policy-settings---video-filters-mode

 

There is an uservoice requesting central administrated backgrounds, vote and comment on that.

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40170928-admin-settings-policies-for-meeting-background-ima

 

If a user selects a background, that selection will persist between meetings now. So users only have to select background once.

https://www.lync.se/2020/08/teams-background-will-be-persistent/

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