MS Teams for mac unable to share desktop or other screens - app and online versions

Anonymous
2020-02-13T17:45:06+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-07T05:25:37+00:00

    Hi Chris and others on this thread

    We are also experiencing this difficulty, being unable to share content, with Teams installed on Mac OS X machines.  Our experience includes that local authorities and colleges that we are working with are insisting the use of MS Teams.  It means that we are unable to fulfill our remit to deliver education and learning to our community of disabled learners and musicians.  It is very frustrating.  

    We have users on various OS X from 10.13.x through 10.14.x to the latest Catalina OS X.  

    We note and thank previous thread contributions on suggestions of: not using full screen display of any programmes to potentially to be shared.

    Selecting  System Preferences and enabling, in the privacy tab Recording option for Teams. (not been an option that I have actually seen as a preference), but have tried 'full disk access'.

    We are investigating the potential use of MS Teams in conjunction with other software to try and provide/improvise a solution employing the use of third party apps, such as OBS and Black Hole.  If any others have contributions to this/these set of issues, we would love to hear from you. 

    Finally Microsoft and Apple, we have been loyal subscribers and purchasers of both your kit and software titles for many, many years.  In this day and age when many expound the virtues of the technology advancements, and as circumstances and pandemic have changed the world's culture and modes of working and learning, you are both contributing to parts of the population being unable to access the processes vital for the progress.  Please make access to your sharing services available and working sooner than later.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-25T20:15:49+00:00

    I am having the same issue as well

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-22T04:43:50+00:00

    I've done this before... it's the screen recording permit.

    but what we're saying here is that you can't share individual windows, just the whole desktop.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-21T16:50:38+00:00

    I just experienced the same problem after updating to macOS Catalina. The solution was to allow MS teams screen recording under security & privacy options in system preferences

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-08-19T03:38:19+00:00

    exactly

    this is a good workaround

    I found this solution too, though uncomfortable enough.

    we hope for a new release that will fix this annoying problem.

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