


And in super exciting news, Microsoft is pushing the ability to use backgrounds when you use Teams in a web browser as well – it should hit General Availability by mid-December! How to use a custom background Most of us use Microsoft Teams’ background blur and images to hide the dirty dishes or toddler messes behind us, and some of us will surprise the rest of the team with a customized background for laughs (looking at you, Kunaal, with your lawyer-cat background!).Īs an early holiday gift for our team, I made some custom backgrounds to bring some wintery cheer to our meetings – and we want to share these with you! Download the background images below, and follow the steps to add them to your own background. We were remote even before the pandemic hit, and getting that extra feedback of facial expressions and upper-body language helps us to keep our communication clear and our team in-sync. For our internal PixelMill team meetings, we try to be on-camera as much as our bandwidths allow.
