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.

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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Ben commented
I can back that this is an essential feature we use a lot in SfB. We are currently having to run both teams and Skype just to be able to use this feature.
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Bronley Plumb commented
Yes, definitely this! At the top right, there could be another button for share screen (without starting video or audio call).
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Barry commented
A main reason for using SFB is the screen share (without video). This omission will be a major impediment to corporate usage of Teams and will have customers scrambling to look at competing products with this feature.
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matt commented
Oh, so this feature is not live yet? The T-bot tells how to share but the button is missing.
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Anonymous commented
This is a MUST feature - Teams should have never been designed without it!
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Arun Rao commented
It is a must feature before SFB is faded out...
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Anonymous commented
My company is phasing out SfB by October so having this feature is a must have. Can't wait to hear the news.
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Anonymous commented
Whatchawaitin-whatchawaitin'-whatchawaitin' for ...
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Nicolas commented
Desktop sharing from chat...and remote control too (!), i'm migrating from SfB to Teams right now...
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Nicolas commented
Quick...Please !
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Anonymous commented
This item is critical. When you live in a hybrid world with regular phones and Teams interacting together and conference rooms with regular phones...this is an absolute must.
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Anonymous commented
Yes awesome!
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bob commented
The screen sharing feature is pretty much the only reason I used Skype for business. Cannot upgrade to Teams until this is available without doing a video call.
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Brett Parker commented
Agree this would be really helpful.
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Jes Rijo commented
I don't use this tool because this feature does not exist yet. Please add asap.
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Jon Ostroushko commented
Thanks guys. This is a big deal for feature parity that will put us one feature closer to being a able to switch fully to Teams.
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Anonymous commented
ability to mark up the screen to highlight things while sharing screen would be awesome
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Anonymous commented
Yeah, it is so annoying having to go through and start a meeting to do a quick screen share compared with skype where it is one button.
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Matt Shafer commented
I would add on here, that you could bring a lot of value for IT admins if you made this UAC enabled. I’d even be willing to pay for add on functionality like that if it meant I could ditch GoToAssist
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Thomas Stegh commented
Great, working on it ;)