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Forrest_H
Mar 24, 2020Steel Contributor
Screen sharing and late arrivals problem
[User says]
One thing I've noticed is that if sharing a screen during a Teams meeting/call, when someone else joins the call (e.g., they are 5 minutes late), the presenter has to share their screen again in order for the newcomer to also see it. You could imagine how annoying that can be if there are 10 people invited to the meeting and several arrive a few minutes late. Has anyone else had this issue and do you now a workaround?
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[I asked]
First I have heard of this issue. I'll do some research to see what I can find out. Curious as to if you were sharing the whole screen of a multi-screen connection, the whole Desktop or just one application?
[User says]
The whole desktop is the only time I have tried it.
This dialog was from February 18 and not sure what builds we each had. Was this a known issue or has anyone else experienced this?
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- MarkrabeCopper Contributor
Forrest_H We have this same issue and have a ticket open with Microsoft. So far, they have logs, but no resolution. I will track this string to see if anyone else has success. For us, this seems to be related to larger meetings (100+ people). Also, we've had a similar issue on 1:1 calls where folks can't see shared screen. 2 workarounds, share screen first before calling, and have the other person call, and first person can share. This has been an issue for over a year.
- Forrest_HSteel Contributor
VeraJS I agree, I have not heard anything from my associates if this has re-occurred in our tenant since I first posted this. I have found other people experiencing the same recently as described in this post.
- glevy4458Copper ContributorTo me, this is a big problem. Even if you are on time, and the presenter has started to share, you have to ask them to stop sharing and start again. This is a big issue when you have 20+ people in a meeting. There should b a work around on this.
- Forrest_HSteel ContributorI checked with 2 users and neither has experienced the problem recently.
I'm guessing that a Teams app update or service update resolved it.- JayRE76Copper Contributor
Problem seems to be back. Have a user now who has to reshare his screen every time someone joins, disconnects, or manipulates their own Teams windows (maximize, minimize, etc). The presenter screen goes back to the first slide of his presentation even though his computer is on slide 10 or something.
Not just displaying like this for new users, but for everyone in the meeting.
Has anyone figured this out yet?