MacOS Catalina and Teams Screen Sharing

Anonymous
2019-10-08T22:15:11+00:00

I updated to MacOS Catalina and now I cannot share my app screens. I can share my desktop, but that is all others can see.

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Anonymous
2019-10-09T01:10:02+00:00

Found it.

System Preferences

Security & Privacy

Privacy

Screen Recording

My system had an entry (unchecked) for Microsoft teams. I think it asked me as I was launching but I blew by it. Not sure how you'd add it if it's not there. You just have to turn it on, and Teams screen sharing will work.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-10T23:38:33+00:00

    This solved the issue for me too. I would never have found that out myself as I am using TEAMS in full screen usually...

    Same here -- always run in fullscreen, but sharing works in not-fullscreen. That is strange, but at least I have a workaround.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-08T08:58:34+00:00

    Re-installing solved the issue in my case.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-12-24T01:33:57+00:00

    Hi Peter,

    The steps from my company IT: 

    System Preferences

    Security & Privacy

    Accessibility - add Microsoft Teams

    This should work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-11-26T08:04:06+00:00

    same session - just go to full screen and it works, go back to windowed mode and it stops working...

    Thanks a lot for all this information - it works for me, too - just wanted to share the following interesting insights:

    When you start the session (in full-screen-mode - because it won't work otherwise - see above) you can then

    a) switch between desktops and everything works fine!

    b) you can even go back to the window-mode of MS Teams...

    You only need to have teams in the full-screen mode to START the screen-sharing session....at least, so it seems...

    Very interesting bug...

    Did work for me once, but is not a consistent behavior either. So far looking at all the responses this is completely random. 

    • Closing other applications work for some, but completely random on which other app is the culprit.
    • Working in Fullscreen works for some, but not others.
    • Using Teams on the Web in Chrome did work for me.

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