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- Overview
- Prerequisites
- Set up and manage custom meeting backgrounds in the Teams admin center
- Require users to only use the backgrounds you upload
- Apply a blur for users with no backgrounds
- Where are custom backgrounds visible
APPLIES TO: ✔️Meetings ✔️Webinars ✔️Town halls
Some features described in this article require Teams Premium.
Before setting up custom meeting backgrounds for your Teams meetings, check to make sure you have the following items:
•Your users who need to use custom backgrounds have a Teams Premium license.
•You’re an admin with access to the Teams admin center or you were assigned a customization policy.
•Your background images meet the required specifications.
Enable the custom background policy
To enable the custom background policy, follow these steps: 1.Open the Teams admin center 2.Select Meetings from the navigation pane. 3.Under Meetings, there are two ways to access the custom background policy: •You could select Customization Policies to select an existing policy, the global default, or create a new policy. •Alternatively, you could select Meeting Policies and then select the Customize meeting visuals button in the upper right-hand corner. 4.Within your chosen policy, navigate to the Meeting Backgrounds section. 5.Toggle the Use background images from my organization setting from Off to On to enable the setting.
Add custom background images
When you toggle Use background images from my organization to On, an +Add button appears. Once you select +Add, a pane called Managing Backgrounds opens, allowing you to add your custom background images. These images are displayed on the end users’ interfaces, ordered by the time of upload. Uploaded images must adhere to the following parameters. You can upload: •PNG and JPEG image formats of your images. •Images with a minimum dimension of 360 px X 360 px. •Images with a maximum dimension of 3840 px X 2160 px. •A maximum of 50 custom background images.
Save custom background images
You can find previews of your uploaded images in a new table under the Meeting backgrounds section. This table also displays the names and resolutions of your images. Once you confirm your choice of uploaded images, select the Save button below the preview table. Once you select save, your uploaded backgrounds are visible to your users with a Teams Premium license.
You can decide to only show the custom backgrounds you upload in your users' gallery.
To only show the custom backgrounds that you upload, follow these steps:
1.Select Meetings from the navigation pane in the Teams Admin Center
2.Under Meetings, select Meeting Policies and select an existing policy, or create a new one.
3.Within your chosen policy, navigate to the Audio and Video section and set Participants can use video effects to Off or Only background blur.
4.Select Save.
You can use the Teams Admin Center to automatically apply a background blur to any users that aren't using any video effects or background images during meetings. Meeting and customization policies both control meeting backgrounds. However, customization policies take precedence over meeting policies; any settings you change in customization policies will also reflect in meeting policies.
Use the following steps to apply blurred backgrounds for users that aren't using any backgrounds or video effects:
1.Select Meetings from the navigation pane in the Teams admin center.
2.Under Meetings, select Customization policies to select an existing policy or create a new one.
3.Within your chosen policy, navigate to the Meeting backgrounds section.
4.Toggle the Apply background blur when no effect is selected setting from Off to On to enable the setting.
Who can select and apply custom meeting backgrounds
Only Teams Premium licensed users can use the meeting backgrounds in their Background Settings panel.
Who can view custom meeting backgrounds
While only licensed end users can select their choice of uploaded backgrounds, anyone can view the backgrounds that are applied to a meeting. These users include the following types: •In-tenant, Teams Premium licensed users •In-tenant, nonlicensed users •External Users •Anonymous users
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