Enable screen sharing without audio/video call

Enable an option to start a screen sharing session without starting a an audio.video call. This is a common use case in our organization.

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Jens Engelmann shared this idea · Nov 3, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Dec 26, 2018

UPDATE: I have confirmed with the feature team that this is, in fact, functioning as you expect – you can share your entire desktop or a specific window directly from a private chat session, without starting audio or video. The mute microphone button is enabled so you are able to easily add audio by “unmuting”, but we realize this is causing confusion. We are working on further experience improvements.

Please feel free to respond to teamsml@microsoft.com if you are still seeing issues.

Thanks,
Alex

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Suphatra responded · Dec 18, 2018

Hi again,

I’ve had a number of you email me saying this feature is not completed because it still creates an AUDIO call.

The original request is to enable screensharing without a video call, which is now the completed and shipped. However, it still creates a phone call.

If you would like this new feature request, which is to screenshare without an audio call, please vote up this item here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/34074184

Thank you and please ping me if you have any questions (sparavi at Microsoft dot com) or leave comments/questions in the thread of the new ticket.

-Suphatra

completed ·

Suphatra responded · Dec 17, 2018

This is done rolling out, all of you should have it now. Happy holidays!

Email me at sparavi (at) Microsoft (dot) com if you have any issues or questions about this item.

Suphatra

completed ·

Suphatra responded · Oct 2, 2018

Hi everyone, thanks for all your emails, calls, tweets and messages. I should have clarified that this feature is complete, and is currently in a validation ring and being slowly rolled out over the next couple weeks, as it passes through our validation rings.

So you will see it soon in your Teams client. I will email again when it has finished being deployed to all Teams customers.

Thank you!
Suphatra

completed ·

Suphatra responded · Sep 27, 2018

Hi everyone! I’m so happy to report that this is DONE!

You can now share your entire desktop or a specific window directly from a private chat session. You can even let them take control to collaborate on content together. To share your screen during a private chat, simply click the open sharetray icon on the top right of the screen and pick one of the available window options.

Tweet me at @skprufo if you have any questions. Email me your userlogs if you experience any bugs with this new feature. Your reporting really helps our quality assurance!

Thanks so much for your patience and support of Teams.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

working on it ·

Warren responded · Aug 15, 2018

This feature is actively being worked upon. Hopefully in the coming weeks I will get some more details to share with you all.

-Warren

working on it ·

Warren responded · Jul 31, 2018

This feature is now actively being worked upon. This thread will be updated as we move through the process.

-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · May 30, 2018

This item is still on the backlog. Still working its way up through the queue.

-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Apr 16, 2018

This item is still on the backlog. Though it is making its way up through the queue.
I’ll keep you posted as it gets closer.
-Warren

on the backlog ·

Warren responded · Jan 22, 2018

Thank you for taking the time to provide additional feedback. The current survey has now been closed.

Our feature team will review the feedback and I hope to provide some additional info in the near future. For now this item will still be flagged as “on the backlog”.

I already provided feedback to the Feature Team about the question of ‘what chat applications you currently using’ only allowed a single selection to be chosen. As well as being clear that the ask is for sharing one’s screen without the need for video calling.

We appreciate your feedback and together making Teams a better product.

-Warren

needs your feedback ·

Warren responded · Jan 16, 2018

Greetings,

The User Research group at Microsoft Teams would like to better understand the needs around sharing screen from chat (without audio or video).

We’re reaching out to you, hoping you would be willing to spare 10 minutes of your time to participate in an online survey. The insights gained through this survey research will help inform decisions around upcoming investments and prioritization to better address your needs. Your participation will be greatly appreciated!

Please use this link to access the survey:
https://aka.ms/Ujsh1v

Feel free to forward this survey to people you know who have a need for sharing screen from chat.

Thank you!

on the backlog ·

Suphatra responded · Nov 16, 2017

Hey everyone, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the engineering team has let me know they’ve come up against some pressing resource restraints causing them to pause work on this item for the time being. So we’re moving this one to the backlog for now.

However, this is not off our radar and certainly not off mine. We’ll continue to regularly revisit this item with the team, so please continue to lobby for more votes and add to the comments below. Every voice counts and helps. Thank you!!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Nov 16, 2017

Sincerely,
Suphatra

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Oct 18, 2017

Hi everyone, I know we are overdue for the next update. I’m hounding our Meetings team trying to get a new ETA for you. I’ll ping you immediately once I get it!

Thanks for your patience, and your support. Tweet me if you have any questions: @skprufo.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Jul 24, 2017

Hi everyone — good news and bad news. Good news is that I have an update from Engineering. Bad news is that they just let me know this has hit some road blocks and we won’t be hitting July’s target date. This is now expected to be delivered in September.

I am sorry for the delay and will update you as this gets nearer to completion! Feel free to ping me if you want to be a beta tester for this feature!

Thanks and hope everyone is enjoying their summer,
Suphatra

working on it ·

Suphatra responded · Jun 2, 2017

We’ve started work on this and we’re aiming for completion by the end of a month that starts with “J”. I’ll let you guess. :-D

Thank you for your support of Teams, your great ideas, your patience and enthusiasm. We really appreciate you!

Sincerely,
Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

planned ·

Suphatra responded · Apr 4, 2017

Thank you SO MUCH for your response to the call for more feedback! This has moved into planning. I’ll share more info once I get it. :-)

Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

needs your feedback ·

Suphatra responded · Mar 8, 2017

Hi folks, I need more info on this one. Why do you want to do this without a video call? Why not just hop on a video call and do the screenshare?

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Bojan Kuruc commented · November 7, 2018 7:01 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Currently it is not possible to share screen or application in Teams without establishing audio / video call first.

This is very annoying and it was working fine in Skype for Business

Can you please bring back this feature ?

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Anonymous commented · October 17, 2018 9:57 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I see this is available in a previous post, but I don't see it in my teams app? can you help?

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Jonathan Mortlock commented · September 27, 2018 2:30 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Considering Microsoft has stated that Teams is feature comparable to SfB the fact that you can't do desktop sharing in a chat is crazy

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Jamie Thomson commented · September 26, 2018 2:43 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Like Julian Alarcon says, this is done. Any idea when it'll get delivered? I just checked and I don't have this feature. Yet.

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Julian Alarcon commented · September 25, 2018 7:05 AM · Flag as inappropriate

According to this, It's done! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-new-in-Teams-Ignite-Edition/ba-p/252531

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JoAnna Black commented · September 21, 2018 3:38 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Warren and other MS team peeps,

It's been over a month since the comment saying there might be updates in the coming weeks.

This original request is almost 2 years old.

Is there anything the community can do to push this along? It's really a high priority for a lot of organizations and is making staff request moving back to SfB for this feature.

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Anonymous commented · September 20, 2018 4:34 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hurry up

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Mike commented · September 19, 2018 2:03 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Please consider bumping up in priority. Very cumbersome to start a voice/video call in order to screenshare.

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AC commented · September 18, 2018 10:43 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Would love to get an update on this as well. It's silly to have to start one function (video call) in order to be able to do another function (screen sharing). These two things are independent of each other and should not have one depend on another. Skype for Business never had this requirement, why does Teams?

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Anonymous commented · September 18, 2018 8:47 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any news on this feature?

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Charles Chang commented · September 17, 2018 5:11 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hello, do you think we will get an update soon? at least an ETA? This has been holding up our full migration from S4B to Teams.Thanks.

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Anonymous commented · September 17, 2018 6:30 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi. Can you provide update where are you on this feature? Chat Sharing is extremely important!

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Anonymous commented · September 14, 2018 5:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Much required.

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Anonymous commented · September 10, 2018 7:25 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Hurry up.

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Anonymous commented · September 10, 2018 3:40 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Warren...this feature was first requested in 2016. It has been almost 2 years. Aside from "working on it"...can you provide an ETA year if not a quarter?

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Paul commented · September 10, 2018 5:54 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you MS for working on this feature. It would be beneficial and helpful to have it.

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Prem commented · September 6, 2018 6:03 PM · Flag as inappropriate

In skype Screen sharing was a great help .... Pls get it in TEAMS as well , Thanks

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Anonymous commented · September 6, 2018 6:45 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes, please. This is needed. I won't re-invent the wheel of reasons why, but will add my +1 that we are waiting for this.

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Toon Six commented · September 5, 2018 7:09 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Fully agree, this is so much needed. Please enable this also for external users since we must be able to share our screen with customers, vendors, subcontractors, etc. Vice versa, external parties must be able to share their screens with us.
Thanks for enabling us to get involved in sharing ideas, in discussing them among contributors, and see the total votes per idea.
Please MS Teams product managers, let us know the details of the new features that you plan to work on so that we can capture some misunderstandings before you start coding.

Thanks

Toon Six

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Pea commented · August 31, 2018 9:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is totally silly. I am not sure how you do your work, but often u have somebody on the phone and you just want to say, here let me show you and click a button to share your screen. Like slack, like Skype, like tons of other tools. Here you have to do a call first or setup a meeting. And when you setup a meeting it turns the computer call on anyway. I want to be able to share a screen from a chat with somebody and I DO NOT WANT a frickin audio connection. This is way to complicated and a waste of time. Still using Skype ... so much easier.

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