Microsoft Teams now offers a feature that lets you customize the backgrounds of your meetings with a frosted glass effect and your company logo. This offers an elegant and professional way of reinforcing brand image during online meetings. Companies can add logos in transparent PNG format, adjust their placement and create specific themes for each team. Administrators can also impose these backgrounds on all users, ensuring visual consistency.
The frosted glass effect preserves natural luminosity and offers a more subtle and aesthetic rendering to the video image. To ensure optimum quality, Microsoft recommends using 1920×1080 pixel images with a light opacity, so that the background is neither too intrusive nor too blurred.
This new feature aims to create a visually consistent work environment while maintaining a pleasant user experience. It also reinforces the importance of branding in virtual interactions, particularly at a time when remote meetings have become the norm for many companies.
In short, customizable backgrounds on Teams offer companies an invaluable tool for standing out visually while maintaining a professional framework. Whether for internal meetings or with customers, this feature adds a modern, personalized touch to every encounter.
Overview
Prerequisites
Before you can set up custom backgrounds for your employees’ Teams meetings, make sure you have the following:
- Your users who need to use customized backgrounds have a Teams Premium license.
- You are an administrator with access to the Teams administration center or you have received a personalization policy.
- Your background images meet the required specifications.
Then, in the Teams administration portal, simply create a customization strategy, like the example below:
