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
    2019-10-29T14:55:58+00:00

    I took the advice in the post below and closed MS ToDo. Screen sharing instantly began working.

    Does that count as a third-party application :)?

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-29T02:17:51+00:00

    Hi All,

    Thanks for all your work and efforts in this thread. I want to make some update here:

    Thanks for Bharat’s workaround: In the full screen mode, the share screen feature would work as expected.

    From @Deblanko’s troubleshooting steps, it is caused by some third party applications. And it could be some different apps in different cases. You can reboot and only open Teams application, double check it would work.

    Moreover, I will keep in touch with the relevant team. Once there is any update, I will post back in the forum as some as possible.

    Regards,

    Rick

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-28T19:01:54+00:00

    @Deblanko, thanks for this!! It's been plaguing me for weeks. In my case, it was the Harvest App for keep tracking of my time. As soon as I quit Harvest screen sharing worked for me...what a pain!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-28T15:27:33+00:00

    Great... thanks. Also, What I encountered was that once the opened apps were displayed using the full screen mode, I could then return to a partial/sized screen and the Share Screen attribute retained access to all my screens and apps.  Thanks, Bob

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