Note: Meeting themes are available as part of the preview release of Teams Premium, an add-on license that provides additional features to make Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure. To get access to Teams Premium, contact your IT admin.

Meeting themes help foster a branded meeting experience by incorporating visual assets (i.e., an organization’s logo, brand image, and color theme) into meeting screens and surfaces. Branded meetings aren’t currently supported in Microsoft Teams Rooms

Important: Microsoft doesn't validate the ownership of brand logos or images associated with meeting themes. When joining meetings with other organizations, always verify the authenticity of the organization you're meeting with.

Themed screens and surfaces

Build brand awareness and company culture with themed meeting screens and surfaces. See company colors and images applied to the pre-join and lobby screens, meeting controls, and more. 

Note: Participants who have enabled high contrast display in Teams meetings won’t see branded content. 

Custom backgrounds

Apply org-defined backgrounds during your meeting to display your company’s logo or brand image in the background of your video feed.  

Meeting view with attendees applying custom backgrounds

Learn more about changing your background during a Teams meeting

Note: Org-defined backgrounds are only available to participants with Teams Premium licenses. Guest and anonymous participants won’t see these backgrounds in their settings. 

Turn off meeting themes 

If your IT admin enables meeting themes, they’ll be applied to meetings by default. You can revert to the default Microsoft Teams theme by turning this setting off before the meeting starts. If you turn this setting off during an active meeting, you’ll need to restart the meeting to see changes.

To turn off meeting themes for a meeting:

1. Go to your Teams Calendar and open your meeting.

2. Select Options  Settings button> More options.

3. Turn off the Meeting Theme toggle.

4. Select Save.

Note: This setting only applies to the specific meeting you change it in. Other meetings will remain themed by default. 

If you don’t see this meeting option, contact your IT admin.

Meeting themes help foster a branded meeting experience by incorporating visual assets (i.e., an organization’s logo, brand image, and color theme) into meeting screens and surfaces. Branded meetings aren’t currently supported in Microsoft Teams Rooms. 

joining a themed meeting on mobile joining a themed meeting on mobile joining a themed meeting on mobile

Turn off meeting themes 

If your IT admin enables meeting themes, they’ll be applied to meetings by default. You can revert to the default Microsoft Teams theme by turning this setting off before the meeting starts. If you turn this setting off during an active meeting, you’ll need to restart the meeting to see changes.

To turn off meeting themes for a meeting:

1. Go to your Teams Calendar and open your meeting.

2. Select Meeting options.

3. Turn off the Meeting Theme toggle.

4. Select Save.

Note: This setting only applies to the specific meeting you change it in. Other meetings will remain themed by default. 

If you don’t see this meeting option, contact your IT admin.

Note: Participants who have enabled high contrast display in Teams meetings won’t see branded content.

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