How to Create a Teams Avatar from a Photo
I’ve used Teams avatars for a couple of years but never liked them all that much. The chance to create a Teams avatar from a photo seemed liked a great idea. Alas, the results obtained from uploading a professional headshot photo or from an image captured by the PC’s camera didn’t live up to expectations. The avatar is closer to my reality, but not by much. https://office365itpros.com/2025/01/03/create-a-teams-avatar-from-a-photo/
Issue with Microsoft Mesh App in Teams
Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone else has been experiencing issues with adding the mesh app into Teams? When trying to add to a meeting or channel, I press add and it brings up a blank screen. This happens in the new / old windows client as well as the web app. I have no issue in accessing the mesh windows app, and have had several meetings through here, as well as on a meta quest device.Anyone else intermittently losing the Immersive Space (3D) option off of the View menu?
Anyone else having this issue? I've been doing a lot in Teams Immersive Spaces. It has worked in New Teams for most of the year. I've demonstrated it in front of live audiences successfully for most of the year too. Until about two weeks ago. I was in front of an audience, went to show them how it works on a Business Standard tenant I've had for about 10 months, and boom, no Immersive Space (3D) on the View menu. I have all the right settings, the right licenses, and it has been working fine until now. It doesn't matter if I am doing a "meet now" or a scheduled meeting. Alone, or with others invited. I've made sure my version is up to date. I've removed and reinstalled Teams, I've tried it with other accounts, I've done a reset and a repair. I've rebooted the computer. I've tried it on other Windows 11 machines with Teams. I have an enterprise tenant, also was able to use Immersive Spaces in Teams, that also has this issue using the clients on my computers. It is intermittent. Some of my friends who tried it for me, can see it on the menu (including on the Mac), some can't. It often works once, then the Immersive Space (3D) menu item then disappears, and even a quit and restart of Teams won't bring it back. It does seem to be more dependable on the Mesh admin trial licenses than the paid for Teams Premium licenses for some reason. Not sure if that's a red herring, but I thought I'd mention it. Also, occasionally, the users I invite (if I do a scheduled meeting and not a meet now), will show up briefly as unknown, when they've had the right licensing for a while, but this disappearing menu item thing happens even with no one else invited. Anyone else having this issue with Teams? Have you found a fix? I've just really gotten people comfortable using the feature, and now it's not dependable.
Teams No Longer Showing Options to Choose a Background or Blur the Background
Windows 10 22H2 Teams v1.7.00.3653 Tried clearing Teams cache Tried uninstalling/reinstalling Teams completely (removed via Programs and features the went into my user profile and cleared the junk left behind) Tried Teams Classic, Teams for Work or School, New Teams, Old Teams... I even tried Teams Premium. I also tried making changes within the Teams admin console for Microsoft 365. All of these were equally (un)successful... Tried Windows updates Backgrounds used to work. A user at my organization reported the issue last month. I tested and found that I have the same issue. I have no idea when the issue occurred and I can't tell you if it was an update that caused it. I even tried populating the New Teams backgrounds location with a background from the Microsoft website. Without the option available to select it, there is no way to add it. Also per my comment at the top, I do not have the option to blur the background. Is there a registry entry that maybe got lost that I can recreate or some files and or folders that I can dump into the Teams files within AppData? I am grasping at straws. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.Exploring solutions for advanced management of presence and status in Microsoft Teams
Hello, our company heavily utilizes Microsoft Teams for both internal and external communication, but we are facing specific challenges that we're looking to overcome. We are particularly interested in exploring innovative solutions like Mesh for Microsoft Teams as well as other potential add-ons or custom policies that might enhance our management of employee presence and status. Here’s a summary of our needs: 1. Monitoring Actual Presence of Employees: we struggle to accurately determine the physical presence of our collaborators during the workday. We're interested in finding out if there are any policies or add-ons that can integrate with Teams to provide more precise indications of presence. 2. Detecting the Actual Status of Employees: we often find that the automatic presence status in Teams does not accurately reflect an employee’s real availability. We would be interested in discovering tools that improve this functionality, perhaps through more sophisticated integrations that consider real calendar commitments. 3. Improving Cooperation and Work Group Organization: we are looking for solutions that can facilitate better organization of common activities and enhance the effectiveness of communication. 4. Recreating Typical In-Person Work Situations: with the increase in remote work, we want to implement tools that help recreate the spontaneity of face-to-face encounters, such as virtual coffee breaks or spaces for casual meetings. We are open to exploring Mesh for Microsoft Teams but also other solutions that might include specific add-ons or policy configurations that enhance these functionalities. Does anyone have experiences or advice to share on how to optimize the use of Teams in these areas? Thank you very much for any help or suggestions you can offer!Avatars
I am looking to enable the option to use Avatars in Teams for our organization and wanted to set up a policy where a few people can test by having access to the Avatar app. When I go to apps and search, I don't even see the Avatar app in our instance - whether blocked or not. We are a GCC client. Is it not available to us? Or do you have advice on how to find it?
Is there a way to get profile pictures to show up in chats and posts
In slack, everytime someone posts or sends a direct message, their avatar or icon shows their picture. My clients want that feature. In Teams we can change our profile picture but chats and posts only show the circle with initials. How do I make chats and posts show the pictures? For your reference, here is an example in Slack and in Teams: Slack: Teams:Quicker access to animated avatar reactions?
Animated avatar reactions are neat, and I appreciate that the default reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) also animate my avatar. However, the other reactions are too hard to get to, even the five others I may have pinned. I still must hit the “⋯ More” toolbar button and then “Effects and avatars” from the drop-down menu, then click on a pinned reaction. And the other reactions are buried even further, under “⋯ Show all” and a choice of seven categories. Is there a quicker way to get to these? They’re reactions, after all, and a noticeable delay during a meeting is awkward.
