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In MS Teams , I cannot share my Desktop / Application Windows. Teams alerts me that it needs Screen Recording permissions, although I have actually granted these before, and the regarding boxes in System Preferences are already ticked.
I have the newest version of Catalina and Teams. Nevertheless I don´t know exactly which applications are blocking the Teams screen sharing and why., I have followed all suggestions such as using the online version, same issue occurs, removing VPNs and rebooting and updating apps and the mac itself......I use Teams constantly for work and this is causing me a major hassle!
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We had the same problem. Solution: the 'Outlook' window shouldn't be maximized nor minimized. When this is the case, then the option to share the desktop in MS Teams (mac) is available again...
Hi, just sharing the same experience that my screen sharing was not working with Mac OS Catalina. I did workaround to set a setting in "Security & Privacy" -> Full Disk Access & File & Folders. Just check the MS Team on those 2 option and shared screen start working. Not sure what is the impact with the security may be others can give feedback.
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Hrr
Hi Chris,
I'm writing to follow up on this thread. Have you checked workaround above?
Best regards,
Shyamal
hi there, I tried the suggested work arounds but nothing has changed, full screen or not and the reboot after unchecking screen sharing etc, i had temporary ability to share some powerpoint but nothing else and then this too disappeared....it's really frustrating as this is how I work day to day
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Chris
We were noticing a similar issue but found that it works fine as long as Teams AND the app you want to share are not in full screen. If Excel, the browser, or any other app that we wanted to share on the Mac was in full screen, it wouldn't appear in the list of windows to be shared. We've actually noticed weird behavior from a number of apps on Mac if they are in full screen.
I hope this problem will be solved as soon as possible because it must be possible to share individual application windows even if they are open in full screen mode.
Otherwise the usability of MS Teams on Mac OS Catalina is affected
Please try to solve the issue as soon as possible.
Hi, this has been a massive ingoing issue in Teams for Mac for an eternity.....i started this thread months ago because of the exact same issue and all i get in response from MS is to be patient and they are working on a fix.....put simply, Teams wont share screens for things like excel but only some powerpoint, which is really annoying....something happened when we all upgraded macOS.
the only workaround i have found to date is to only choose ‘desktop’ as your shared screen and open the file you want to share on your desktop whilst closing all others.....quite annoying, even worse if you have automatic alerts on some programs installed as when you share your document, others can see your alerts coming in!.....good luck... but in short, until MS fix this, thats the omly solution!