Show Background effects option has disappeared on teams application, how can I get it back?

Anonymous
2020-04-24T15:11:36+00:00

I had the option to turn on "show background effects" during a MS teams meeting.  It was working great.  Then one day the option is gone and all I can do is turn on blur.  But other users in my company are able to use the feature.  I logged into a Staging tenant to test and the option is there but when I go to  my Companies production tenant it is not available.  But it is for other users.  Microsoft has not rolled out any MS Teams controls around the background so not sure how my setting is missing and others have it.

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Anonymous
2020-05-18T16:51:35+00:00

%appdata% should take you to Roaming.  The full path would be:

C:\Users<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams

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Anonymous
2020-05-20T07:13:04+00:00

We could figure out which files are making the feature available again.

You have just to copy:

  • desktop-config.json
  • settings.json
  • storage.json

You can proceed as follows:

  1. Close MS Teams completely
  2. Copy the above listed files from a machine of someone who has the feature working (%Appdata%\Microsoft\Teams or C:\Users<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams)
  3. Paste the copied files in your %AppData%\Microsoft\Teams and replace the existing files
  4. Start MS Teams and wait until you got an error message where you can click on "Sign out"
  5. Log-in with your email address

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-20T05:52:00+00:00

    Same thing has happened to me and I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times.

    I after I uninstalled not all folders and files were deleted, I get logs staying but some of the other bits are odd when I've uninstalled. So I tried again and deleted everything and hasn't helped.

    After reading this through I've looked in the background files and what is being installed in the current installation package doesn't contain the functionality as it isn't installing all the files I had before.

    C:\Users\Pamela\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams no longer contains a folder for background effects and presumably other files which support that.  It seems pretty deliberate not to have them on the current installation but I have no idea why.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-13T09:43:56+00:00

    %appdata% should take you to Roaming.  The full path would be:

    C:\Users<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams

    **** I don't get it?????????!!!!!!!!!!! 😕😕😕

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-13T09:44:29+00:00
    • Why not? 9uhygsdvwegKKLUFFFFFFFFFFFFFYHrkvf

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