Blur Background Feature support with Skype for Business Onpremise / Subscriber Edition

Question

Hello,

we have a huge Skype for Business Onpremise Environment and we got a Question from a user to activate the blur Background Feature during a video-call.

The SfB-Client version is 2019 MSO (16.0.10413.20020).

We already tested to activate the feature during other video-(test)calls - but we couldn't find how to activate it manually.

After spending 3 hours of Research we found no statement if the feature is officially supported. Our Environment needs to stay onpremise, so using Teams is currently no option.

Please give me short Feedback if the Feature is supported by Skype for Business 2019 Onpremise.

If not, will it be supported with the Release of Skype for Business Subscriber Edition in the course of next year?

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

@Markus Oberthür

The blur background feature is not supported in Skype for Business 2019 On-Premise. This feature is available in Microsoft Teams, but Skype for Business on-premise clients do not have this functionality.

Regarding future releases or updates, there has been no official announcement from Microsoft confirming if this feature will be included in any upcoming versions of Skype for Business, including the potential Subscriber Edition you mentioned. Microsoft has been focusing their efforts on enhancing Microsoft Teams, which includes such modern features. In this case, we recommend you give your feedback in this UserVoice page:https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback

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Answer 2

Hi JimmyYang,

thank you for your very fast Response. So i don't have to spend additional time with research on this topic. Thanks for clarifying this.

Best Regards