However, the report mentions that using the blurring effect may not stop others on a video call from being able to see sensitive information. We just got Webinars, an amazing value, added to E3 or higher, but Microsoft wants $5 PUPM (maybe $12 PUPM after the promo period) for “advanced communications”?Īlso available here if you don’t have admin center access MC249777 – Microsoft Teams: introducing organization-wide backgrounds (preview) – The Unofficial M365 Changelog (m365log.According to a report in The Verge, Teams has introduced a blurring effect for the background as well as a library of pre-installed images to help participants hide their messy home offices. It seems an odd set of features to licence. Commercial organisations need to make money, I’m not against Microsoft making money, but honestly, I’m struggling to see $5 PUPM of value here. It is listed at $12 PUPM, but currently on “promo” at $5 PUPM. Apparently, more will be coming in Advanced Comms too. Custom policy packages – Teams comes with Policy packages, this allows you to create your ownĪnd now this pushing virtual video background feature.“Monitor, track, and analyze data on users and devices” – I’m honestly unclear what feature this refers to, but could it be the upcoming real-time reporting?. Custom branded meeting lobby (a branded virtual lobby experience.Originally being needed for Compliance/Policy Session Recording and Contact Center API (now not needed for either). Pushing Teams Background images through Intune – JordyInTheCloud Advanced Communications licence requiredĪdvanced Communications licence has a checkered history. I’m not sure this is “supported” but multiple people have confirmed it as working. Since posting this blog, a few people have pointed out, if you are a bit handy you could, literally, push selected images directly to the Teams background Image folder via tools like Intune. For the admin pushed images, you can host up to 50 images in your tenant. While the ability for admins to push images feature (actually, as Tony Redmond pointed out, they probably don’t get literally pushed as images to the users PC, but appear as a “gallery” in the client the user can select from), is in “preview” it will be available to all tenants, but in July when it becomes generally available this feature will require an Advanced Communications license.Īdmins can upload them in the Teams Admin Center. Users adding their own background is included in all licence levels of Teams (even free) Images can be either PNG or JPG format they should be no smaller than 360x360px and no larger than 2048x2048px. It’s mainly over now I think, but during the peak of the pandemic, it was great fun to switch out your background with collections of backgrounds from people like Fox, BBC and Ikea. A handy feature, but it only comes as part of the Advanced Communications Licence.Ĭurrently, users can add their own video background, if you have enabled this feature for Teams desktop apps and Teams on the web. Rollout begins in late April and should be complete in late May. We got an update on Friday ( MC249777) giving details of how an administrator will be able to the ability to “push”/define a gallery of video backgrounds to users across the organization to access.
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