How to Request Control in Microsoft Teams

Working remotely with your team is far from perfection. Mainly, the transition process from being in-person work interaction to working from home via online tools is not smooth. Luckily, online tools like Microsoft Teams came to your rescue. Though it’s annoying to connect virtually, Microsoft Teams is trying to make collaboration with your team better via online meetings. Such meetings can be via audio or video calls. The video calls provide face-to-face interaction with team members. The other team members are known as participants. Each participant has a camera feed which allows them to share their screen during the meetings. Sharing screen allows users to virtually view your work process. In this article, we have shown how to request control and share screen in Microsoft Teams.

How to Request Control in Microsoft Teams

During online meetings, Microsoft Teams enable users to share screens. Here, only one person can share it while all others can view it. If a user gives up control, then some other participant in the meeting can take over. Interestingly, any participant can request control teams of the screen shared to work on it. Some significant facts to know about screen sharing and request control teams are listed below:

• One user can’t take the screen control of another user unless they allow you to do it.
• A user can retract the control they have provided from another user whenever they need it.
• No one else in the Teams meeting can compel other users to provide the control of their respective screens. However, a user can request control from others if needed.
• Also, the control of the shared screen can be given to any other user in the meeting even though they have not requested it.
• Every participant in the Teams meeting will be aware of who has taken the screen control.
• Hope these above-mentioned points gave you an overall view of the share and request control teams. Request control option in the screen sharing process is used to raise a request to take over the screen sharing participant’s desktop. This way you can interact and perform tasks on the shared computer. Here is how Microsoft teams request control.

1. Launch the Microsoft Teams application. Sign-in if required and join a meeting.

2. Wait till one of the participants shares their screen.
3. Once the other participant shared their screen, click the Request control button to ask the presenter for their screen control.

4. Click Request on the Request control popup prompt to finalize request control teams.

5. Once you are done with the virtual system connect interaction, click the Stop control button to revoke the presenter screen shared control from your end.

This is how you can request control in Microsoft Teams.

Ways You Can Share Content while Presenting your Screen

There are certain options available in the share content menu when you select it. Such options are given below in points. Once you understand the different options and their usage you can share the contents efficiently and use Teams to the fullest.

• Screen: This option allows you to share your entire desktop which means it enables all other participants to view anything that you select on your monitor.
• Window: This option will only enable the participants to view the specific window you decide to show.
• Whiteboard: Whiteboard is just like your regular chalkboard but a digital version. When you select a Whiteboard application it allows every participant to collaborate.
• PowerPoint Live: This option allows you to share a PowerPoint presentation. You use this option instead of windows as it is tailor-made for a PowerPoint file with many other additional features.

How Does Microsoft Teams Share Screen Give Control

Sharing screen enables you to present your desktop and makes it easier to show other participants what you working on in a live manner. And, if you give control to any other participant then they can virtually interact with your PC like by typing, navigating through their mouse, etc. Now. this feature came in handy and became popular during work-from-home situations caused due to pandemics. If you are unaware of how Microsoft Teams share screen give control, then follow the steps given below.

1. Launch the Microsoft Teams application. Sign-in if required and join a meeting.
2. On the Teams Meeting page, click the Share content button present near the Leave button in the top right corner.

4. Now, a menu prompt will pop up with several options. Select the type of content that you want to share. For example, the Screen option is selected.

Note: Desktop represents your PC’s desktop; Windows represent the specific window you have currently opened on your desktop; PowerPoint represents the presentation you have made; Browse option will allow showing a file that is saved on your PC. There are other interesting features like presenter mode where you can set a background, computer sound option, etc. in the latest Teams version.

5. Once you have shared your screen, click the Give control option present at the top of your desktop screen.

On the Give control dropdown, select the participant you want to give control to take over your desktop virtually.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1. What are the browsers that support Microsoft Teams application?

Ans. The browsers that support Teams are Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, the latest version of Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Unfortunately, Teams does not work on Safari.

Q2. Do Teams have a backup of the file you have used so far?

Ans. Teams by Microsoft do not store data on their own. However, it stores data in SharePoint, team chats in OneDrive, and conversation history where you have to back it up on these storage applications your own.

Q3. How is Teams software different from its competitor Zoom?

Ans. Each of these applications has an advantage of its own. Still, the difference among them is that the Microsoft Teams application offers video call service, 2GB of free cloud storage, and unlimited chat while Zoom is kept mainly for video conferencing.