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Custom Background In MS Teams
UPDATED It looks like this is in the process of being rolled out or at least actively tested. If you have the version with the option to select a background image, custom images can be added. Save ...
Anyone know the size/resolution requirements for the background image. Customized backgrounds get cropped rather than stretched. If I could resize the image this would solve the problem but I need to know what those requirements would be?
celessard This is from one of the Teams default backgrounds (Beach.png): 1920x1080 pixels and file size 3.57 MB.
But here is a great tip for managing backgrounds: you can link the system Backgrounds folder to a virtual folder in your personal 'My Pictures' area, even if your system admin has restricted access to the AppData folders. Simply use the Command Prompt or RUN line to enter this code - or some version of it which customizes your desired personal folder (in fact, because of my admin lockouts I run it from a *.BAT file):
MKLINK /j "%USERPROFILE%\My Pictures\TeamsSysBackgrounds" %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds
You will, now have a folder called 'TeamsSysBackgrounds' which shows the current content of standard background images and the subfolder 'Uploads' for your customised backgrounds. Because this is a virtual folder, any changes you make here will be automatically reflected in the original source folders - but without the system admin restrictions.
Have fun with it!
