Can a Microsoft Teams organizer see a full screen share secretly with "manage what attendees see"
I joined a Microsoft Teams meeting through Firefox on the web on a Linux machine. When I tried to share my entire screen, I was asked if I wanted to share the entire screen in a Firefox pop up which I said yes. Then the "you are sharing your entire screen" came up, the sharing icon was red and the "stop sharing" button was red. See attached image. This all disappeared and reverted to the default state almost instantly.
Teams has a feature to "manage what attendees see manage what attendees see" where the meeting host can preview shared content before making it live.
I am concerned that the meeting owner was able to see my entire shared screen without me even knowing it through this preview.
Can someone help? Microsoft just sends you around in circles and I can't contact Mozilla.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but it seems like you chose to share your entire screen, and then clicked "yes" to confirm sharing your entire screen, and then you saw indicators that your screen was being shared. If Teams has a feature where a meeting host gets to see what's being shared before the rest of the meeting then you have to assume the meeting host was able to see it during the short time it was being shared.
I am not familiar with Teams, and you are using three different terms which I am not sure is in reference to different participants or not: "organizer", "meeting host", "meeting owner".
But it sounds like yes, you probably briefly shared your entire screen with the host (or whatever the role is of the person that gets to preview shared content). I am not sure why there is any doubt about this.
> This all disappeared and reverted to the default state almost instantly
Not sure what happened here but it sounds like the sharing was canceled for some reason. Possibly by the meeting host, or because of some other issue.
Hi pernt - Thank you for responding.
From a Firefox version 140.0 on Linux with Xorg display server perspective, is it accurate that only when the red screen share permission icon is red (what is pointed to by the red arrow on the left in the screenshot) that the screen is being shared? There are no possible scenarios, bugs, issues or otherwise where the screen would remain shared after the red share icon goes away?
Like its binary, if red screen share is shown, screen is shared. If red screen share not shown, screen is not shared?
On the MS Teams side, if anyone happens to have a Teams Premium License and is willing to do a test with me, I would certainly appreciate it.
Hey,
Have you tested this on another browser to see if the experience is different from Firefox? The split changes sounds like a glitch, so I'm curious if this is a consistent thing.
But when it comes to the scope of the screen sharing, I'm afraid it's on Microsoft so I don't think we can really do anything about it.
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