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
    2020-01-21T14:43:09+00:00

    Great to hear that this helped!

    I hope someone can fix it soon. It's a pain in the neck.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T02:48:27+00:00

    Hello Brian,

    Thank you for this workaround. It works for me (2012 iMac), however, it seems I have to repeat all 8 steps every time I open Teams and want to screen share. I host quite a few meetings, so this is kind of a PITA.

    Do you think there will be an actual fix soon?

    Thank you,

    Steve

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-17T21:25:10+00:00

    HI Brian, 

    this one worked!!! thx so much.  i thought i had done that but i guess i hadnt followed through exactly.  i followed your instructions and it fixed it for me.

    I havent tried rebooting my Mac, but i have shut down and restarted Teams a few times and it works now without having to enable/disable the screen recording in settings.

    for others here is what im running: 

    Catalina 10.15.2

    Teams: You have Microsoft Teams Version 1.2.00.34155. It was last updated on 12/19/19.

    Macbook Pro 13" 2016

    Thx to all for the comments, and hopefully MS/Apple can work together to get this resolved.  Many others in our institution are really hating this.

    FYI:

    I tried the full screen/regular screen and it didnt fix it for me.

    i tried not having any other applications that could be conflicting and this didnt work for me either.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-17T15:16:30+00:00

    I found that I am stuck in the loop of being asked for permissions and the permissions already being granted. Nothing suggested worked.

    I then stopped Team running in Full Screen Mode.

    Bingo I can share.

    Go back to Full Screen mode... Permissions message again...

    So try not running in full screen mode

    YES!!! That worked... what a sneaky bug! @MSTeams devs, this is the problem ^^^^

    That is what I originally posted and yes it is weird but - IT WORKED!! Hopefully this will get corrected soon. Seems very systemic to everyone!!!

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