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
    2020-11-06T17:57:32+00:00

    Hello!

    Someone posted this but I don't know who so I am pasting it here. It worked for me and now I can see Teams listed in the permissions.

    Hi all,

    So I tried the full screen method and it didn't seem to work for me but I finally figured out a way to get it to show up in the Security & Privacy settings.

    First of all, I have the latest versions of both Catalina (10.15.7) and MS Teams.  I was not able to share anything at all during a meeting.  I remembered being asked during installation about enabling the new meeting experience where it opens up in a separate window so I thought that might be related.

    What I did was this:

    • uncheck this option in settings, see screenshot below
    • restart Teams
    • go into a meeting and share screen
    • it asks for permission to allow
    • and at this point it shows up in the Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Screen Recording

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-06T19:20:10+00:00

    Tech guy fixed it!

    Go into settings on your Teams.  Uncheck "Turn on new meeting experience". Then go into settings to allow Teams to have access to screen record.  You can then go back and turn new experience back on.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-07T14:02:49+00:00

    Tech guy fixed it!

    Go into settings on your Teams.  Uncheck "Turn on new meeting experience". Then go into settings to allow Teams to have access to screen record.  You can then go back and turn new experience back on.  

    thanks! You are a life saver - this forced teams to offer the option in the screen recording plane and then after resetting the "Turn on new experience" and restarting (both teams and by mac) everything worked well, phew. Much appreciate your advice!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-09T11:29:51+00:00

    Tech guy fixed it!

    Go into settings on your Teams.  Uncheck "Turn on new meeting experience". Then go into settings to allow Teams to have access to screen record.  You can then go back and turn new experience back on.  

    thanks! You are a life saver - this forced teams to offer the option in the screen recording plane and then after resetting the "Turn on new experience" and restarting (both teams and by mac) everything worked well, phew. Much appreciate your advice!

    The new meeting option fix works until the laptop is restarted then its breaks again!

    The only fix we have found is to leave System Preferences open while using Teams.

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