Teams - Background Default

Question

Hi! I found a post from this summer (2020) that said the background default was a now an enabled feature. When I clicked the provided link to learn more it brought me to the change your background page with no instruction on the default feature. Is this something that is now live? Is it still being worked on? Are there limits or Admin settings that could be restricting this capability to our users?

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Title: Default option for Backgrounds

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Alex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Aug 14, 2020
I’m happy to share that the default background feature is live. The background you choose will now persist in all of your meetings and calls, until you decide to change it.

For details, please see: https://support.microsoft.com/office/change-your-background-for-a-teams-meeting-f77a2381-443a-499d-825e-509a140f4780

Answer 1

Hi @Kullmann, Chrissy ,

In my experience, Microsoft launched controls for IT admins to restrict the use of background effects. This is controlled via the New-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy and Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlets within the Skype for Business Online PowerShell module and are available through the new VideoFiltersMode. For more details, you can refer to Restricting background effects topic:

https://practical365.com/teams-2/microsoft-teams-rolls-out-background-effects-heres-how-you-can-set-a-custom-background-using-it/

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