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
    2020-11-10T07:58:07+00:00

    Thank you very helpful and in fact I have done exactly the same thing it does seem to work for a little bit and then randomly stopped working. But thank you for the advice anything is worth a try and this does seem to work for me anyway from time to time. 

    like many of the people posting the reply in this thread are use Teams every day with over 700 people in my company and this is a real problem.

    come on Microsoft you’ve got to get this sorted

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-10T12:15:03+00:00

    Have you tried starting sharing in Full Screen mode? This worked for me.

    It seems the pop-up window that the Mac OS tries to show you for opening the Screen Recording settings gets hidden unless you're in Teams full screen when you try to share screen.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-10T12:20:31+00:00

    I found that using teams in a floating window on my desktop (not fullscreen) worked for me (not the principal teams window, but the meeting window), I´m also using the last version of teams and the latest version of Catalina, and I find it infuriating that a company that has thousands of millions of dollars hasn´t been able to solve the issue, and us users have to just use some inconvenient workaround to try and fix the issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-10T13:01:15+00:00

    Hey! I have Macbook air of the version 10.15.7 macOS catalina. Now im having lots of problems, I cannot share my screen, The microsoft teams option is not availabe under the settings in security and privacy under the screen recording. i have no idea how to set it right. please help me

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-10T13:35:24+00:00

    Have you tried starting sharing in Full Screen mode? This worked for me. 

    It seems the pop-up window that the Mac OS tries to show you for opening the Screen Recording settings gets hidden unless you're in Teams full screen when you try to share screen.

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