While researching populating enterprise backgrounds for Teams conversations. I discovered a nice trick to enable GIF backgrounds in Teams.
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Microsoft teams has apparently hard coded the backgrounds it accepts to JPG or PNG picture types. JPG file type does support GIF style animated graphics. The trick here is save a *.GIF file as *.JPG. Just rename the file! Tip: Make sure you use a descriptive file name
Shaun Cassells, Senior Solutions Engineer, 1E
Shaun is a Microsoft MVP Windows Insider MVP and executive at Central Texas Systems Management User Group (CTSMUG). Shaun is a frequent speaker at conferences like MMS, Gartner, TechEd Europe, TechEd North America, IT Dev Connections, System Center Rallies, and Systems Management User Groups (SMUGs). Shaun is an award winning blogger syndicated from www.shauncassells.com. Shaun specializes in analysis, optimization, and design of Tactical Solutions to Strategic Business Goals. Prior to joining 1E in 2010, he worked for a Global 100 company as the Configuration Manager Service Owner and Architect. Recently as a Principle Consultant at 1E, he accomplished design, review, and improvements to a variety of Configuration Manager environments from the very small to sites with a half million seats. He provided leadership that created a patented automated application rationalization and usage based OSD mapping solution in use by multiple fortune 500 companies. These days you can find Shaun traveling to help discover, review, and improve business productivity across the world.
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