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
    2020-02-26T13:56:18+00:00

    I have this issue in Catalina, but the sharing setting was set properly. It's and miss as to whether it works.

    It is downright embarrassing to start a videoconference and then have to kill it to try and fix the problem. Heck, I had to use audio only last time.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-10T16:18:47+00:00

    I have MacOS 10.15.3 and Teams version 1.3.00.362 and I still have the issue.  I have checked the screen recording and it doesn't matter whether in full screen or not, I cannot share Excel or Word files.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-10T16:30:15+00:00

    I am still having this problem. The only thing I found that works is for the person I'm meeting with on Teams and on PC is for them to start a sharing session, then pass controls to me. That was weird but it did work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-11T09:21:39+00:00

    Here are some lists of apps that has been going around that conflicts with Teams screen sharing capability.  Please have a look if any of these is in your MAC then quit/exit out of it.

    • Harvest – Confirmed
    • Sonos – Confirmed
    • Cisco VPN – Issue reported by others
    • Microsoft To-Do – Confirmed
    • Contacts+ (formerly FullContact) – confirmed
    • Apple Photos – confirmed
    • Teamviewer – reported by others
    • Prompt/popup for app review from App Store – still have questions here. This seemed to be it, but haven’t been able to confirm
    • Brackets – reported by others
    • Citrix Workspace Version: 19.10.2.41 (1910) – confirmed

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