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Corporate Teams background images gone
Hi, we just discovered that since yesterday the corporate Teams background images we provided via Teams Admin Center -> Meeting policies are all gone and the button to add new ones is missing. Th...
Bahatjez This is a known issue. You can see this in your Office 365 admin Service health portal with issue number TM481007
Admins may be unable to access the “Customize meeting images” feature in the Teams admin center
TM481007, Last updated: December 7, 2022 3:24 PM
Estimated start time: December 6, 2022 11:11 AM
Here is the latest update:
Title: Admins may be unable to access the “Customize meeting images” feature in the Teams admin centerUser Impact: Admins may be unable to access "Customize meeting images" under the "Meeting Policies" tab in the Teams admin center.
More info: Admins report seeing the issue manifest in a few, different ways. While some admins report getting an error when clicking the feature, others state that the button is grayed out or missing entirely.
Current status: We've developed and validated a fix that has begun deploying to the affected environment and expect that it will complete by our next scheduled update.
Scope of impact: Any admin attempting to access the “Customize meeting images” feature in the Teams admin center may be affected.
Start time: Thursday, December 1, 2022, 3:00 AM (8:00 AM UTC)
Estimated time to resolve: We expect that the issue will be fully resolved by the end of Thursday, December 8, 2022.
Root cause: A recent feature deployment, intended to improve the user license checking process, contains code issue which is causing impact.
Next update by: Thursday, December 8, 2022, 5:00 PM (10:00 PM UTC)
So it seems this problem is back again today...
Is Teams Premium finally kicking in?
Looks like we've lost the battle, folks. Time to open up those wallets again...
https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/branding/view/R2xvYmFs
"Custom meeting backgrounds
Upload images that people can use when they attend Teams meetings. Only users who have Teams Premium or an Advanced Communications license will have access to use these images."
https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/branding/view/R2xvYmFs
"Custom meeting backgrounds
Upload images that people can use when they attend Teams meetings. Only users who have Teams Premium or an Advanced Communications license will have access to use these images."
HexYeah What's most interesting is we are in an EA agreement with MS. One would think nothing would change!! how can you just take away features and not expect people to be upset?
- "How can we make people buy Teams premium?" By locking simple things behind paywalls.
- " Now you can't leave. "
- I'm not giving up...
Created a GPO which copy my backgrounds in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads for every users.
Then restart Teams. The background will show at the end of the background list.- Do you know if there is a way to set this in Intune?
I worked on this today. I created a Win32 app with the images and a .ps1 file. Basically just:
Copy-Item "<filename>" -Destination "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads"
Run as User not System. If you want to run as system, just make sure you tell it how to find the user's path.
install command was:
powershell.exe -executionpolicy Bypass -WindowStyle Hidden -nologo .\CopyFiles.ps1
Intune relies on the device to check in. Deployment times vary wildly. We also have Automox, so I could have pushed using that, but wanted to wrestle with Intune.
