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microsoft_teams_on_linux [07.02.2023 12:13] – Pascal Sutermicrosoft_teams_on_linux [08.02.2023 19:06] (current) – [use custom image (flimsy)] Pascal Suter
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 if you see the entry, change the value to something like ''{"effectType":16,"path":"https://www.my.page/my.image.png"}'' then press enter.  if you see the entry, change the value to something like ''{"effectType":16,"path":"https://www.my.page/my.image.png"}'' then press enter. 
  
-if you now restart your teams PWA app and you start a video call, you will see a black background, because your browser does not allow to use an image that's not from microsoft. but we can work around that too. Click on the puzzle icon in the upper left corner of your title bar, then choose "extension manager". Now install the ''Moseif Origins & CORS changer'' plug in.  +if you now restart your teams PWA app and you start a video call, you will see a black background, because most probably your webserver will not allow cross-site access to the image with an origin from teams.microsoft.com. If you can change your web-servers configuration, you can change it to add the following header, for requests coming for this iamge: 
- +  Access-Control-Allow-Origin https://teams.microsoft.com 
-now using the same puzzle icon, you should be able to enable it in your teams PWA window. +once your webserver has this set, your image will work in teams.  
 +If you can't manipulate your server's headers you can work around this issue by installing a browser extension that works around the CORS checks for you. However, the problem is, that this is not a safe setting to have on all the time while surfing the web, and if you use chrome also as your default web-browser, unfortunately when you enable this plugin in your teams PWA it will also be enabled for all your other browsing, so this might be a security issue there.. If you still want to proceed, you can install the extension as follows:  
 +Click on the puzzle icon in the upper left corner of your title bar, then choose "extension manager". Now install the ''Moseif Origins & CORS changer'' plug in. now using the same puzzle icon, you should be able to enable it in your teams PWA window. 
  
 finally restart teams and you should see your image as background. Don't know for how long that will last though ;)  and you will have to repeat this for all your pc's  finally restart teams and you should see your image as background. Don't know for how long that will last though ;)  and you will have to repeat this for all your pc's 
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