To learn more about creating and customizing together mode scenes in Microsoft Teams, see Teams together mode. Together mode makes your meetings feel more natural and engaging, and bringing that sense of togetherness to your organization's meetings. Teams together mode uses AI segmentation technology to place meeting participants in a shared virtual space. If you have a Developer License along with Teams Premium, Teams custom together mode is also something you can explore. Ultimately, customization makes meetings more engaging, productive, and professional. Together, these features enhance the virtual meeting experience by providing admins with greater control over the visual and structural aspects of their users’ meetings. To learn more about custom meeting backgrounds in Microsoft Teams, see Custom meeting backgrounds. For a cohesive pre-join and meeting experience, use both meeting themes and custom meeting backgrounds.
To customize the pre-join and lobby experience for your users, use meeting themes.
If you’d like to customize the meeting experience for your users, you use custom meeting backgrounds. You can use a user or group policy to assign unique corporate backgrounds to specific individuals or departments. This feature helps users maintain privacy, reduce distractions, or add a touch of corporate unity to their meetings. Custom Meeting BackgroundsĬustom meeting backgrounds allow admins to upload custom organizational images for their users to use as virtual backgrounds during meetings. To learn more about meeting themes in Microsoft Teams, see Meeting themes. Meeting themes consist of your organization’s brand colors, a custom image to represent your branding, and your organization’s logo. Meeting themes allow admins to customize the visual appearance of the prejoin and lobby screens by applying a specific theme. To learn more about custom meeting templates in Microsoft Teams, see Custom meeting templates. This feature can save time and ensure consistency across meetings of a similar nature, such as team meetings or client check-ins. These options include security, audio and video, recording and transcription, and meeting engagement settings. With meeting templates, you can preset many of the options that are available to meeting organizers. Teams Premium meeting templates, meeting themes, and custom meeting backgrounds are features of Teams that allow admins to customize virtual meetings to better suit the preferences and needs of their users. Microsoft Teams custom meetings allow organizations to extend their visual identities and compliance requirements across the meeting experience by adding logos and backgrounds that can be displayed in the meeting’s pre-join screen, lobby, and during the meeting experience. There are a few different options when creating your background.Some features described in this article require Teams Premium. What are some suggested apps you can use to design a custom Microsoft Teams background? But, it will not appear this way to others joining your meeting. IMPORTANT: If you have text in your background, it will appear mirrored (or flipped) after you click “apply” in the final step below. Something to keep in mind when designing is that the resolution of your canvas should be 1920 x 1080, and the best format to save as are PNG files.