i am unable to get the background settings in microsoft teams

Anonymous
2020-04-14T15:55:58+00:00

Dear Team ,

 I am using the latest Teams app in my windows 10 laptop. During the meeting for the video I am unable to get the background setting to select a background for my video. Request your help .

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-10T16:31:03+00:00

    This is what worked for me:

    1. Exit Teams and Outlook
    2. Create a subfolder Background/Uploads in %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams folder
    3. Start Teams

    Background effects should started appearing in your desktop app

    Note that the background effects may not work for the web app version of MS teams.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-10T12:53:12+00:00

    Well this week Teams started to work ok with this background feature.

    Go figure.

    Maybe someone found how to (same as already made in skype) implement it without depending on heavy hardware - something that snapcam also does, it *works* only with a powerfull graphics card.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-10T12:45:20+00:00

    Thanks for the tip. This is hilarious. So much fun.

    I'm glad Teams did not work on the backgrounds and found this tip.

    So everybody get Snap Camera!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-10T12:26:36+00:00

    This is for me also not the case.

    It did worked fine, but suddenly it stopped working.

    I also did an new install from the latest version.

    But like many others people here it did not work again.

    Is this so hard to fix with so many people having the same problem?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-08T19:39:42+00:00

    I have the same issue. I'm on a laptop. it is the last version. I suspect it to be linked to the fact that you have you own microsoft account (personal) but you want to join a community from another company as a guest.

    I my case sometimes I see the background list on the right of my screen when starting a teams meeting and sometime it is desesperatly empty. I was thinking to have solved it by moving some of the images from %users%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds to %users%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\upload but it has disappeared again. Probably a big bug. Zoom is 10 times more efficient .... but some organizations are using teams for their meetings.

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