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title: Teams – You can manage Teams Meeting backgrounds - cubesys
description: As you know Teams has been allowing end-users to either blur or set a custom background for their meeting.Well, now Teams Administrators can now manage this settings to define which option is available to end-users.The options available for administrators are:No Filters; meaning no option to blur or set custom backgroundAll…
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# [Teams – You can manage Teams Meeting backgrounds - cubesys](https://www.cubesys.com.au/blog/teams-you-can-manage-teams-meeting-backgrounds)

 Written by [cubesys](https://www.cubesys.com.au/blog/author/cubesys) | May 10, 2020 2:00:00 PM

As you know Teams has been allowing end-users to either blur or set a custom background for their meeting.

Well, now Teams Administrators can now manage this settings to define which option is available to end-users.

The options available for administrators are:

- No Filters; meaning no option to blur or set custom background
- All Filters; meaning end-users can do what they want, including using their own custom background (while there is not yet an option from the Teams client, there is a trick see [https://t.co/0F7Stk8avz](https://t.co/0F7Stk8avz))
- BlurOnly; this will disable the custom background option
- BlurAndDefaultBackgrounds; which allow the blur option and set a default background with no way for end-user to change it

These settings **can not be managed** from the Teams administration portal (from now?) and requires you to use the **Skype for Business Online PowerShell** modules (yes, Skype for Business modules) – available at [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366)

To manage it, you need to update your Teams Meeting policy/policies using the below command; first to connect to your tenant and then set the policy settings for the **end-user** as the VideoFiltersMode parameter can not be changed at the policy level

> Import-Module SkypeOnlineConnector   
>  $Cred = Get-Credential   
>  $CSSession = New-CsOnlineSession -Credential $Cred   
> Import-PSSession -Session $CSSession –AllowClobber
> 
> Grant-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy –Identity <Teams user email address> –PolicyName <any of the option ‘BlurAndDefaultBackgrounds’, ‘BlurOnly’, ‘AllFilters’ or ‘NoFilters’

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