Microsoft Teams fullscreen view + offline installer + join invitation link without account

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Microsoft Teams does not have a “true” fullscreen mode. Even if you select both “focus” and “fullscreen” there is always a command bar left at the top. This can make it difficult read small text when people are sharing their (high resolution) screens. Here are two tips how to improve:

1. Pressing Ctrl+Minus will make the Teams GUI smaller. Do this multiple time. Each time the shared video gets more room! (You can always press Ctrl+Equals to go back to 100% zoom.)

2. While hovering the shared content, hold Ctrl and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Only the shared screen is affected. When zoomed in, use the mouse to drag the content around.

3. Use the web version of Teams instead. This actually has a *real* fullscreen mode. (It’s not a problem to have both the web version and the ordinary desktop client running at the same time!)

As a side note: From time to time I’ve had problems with viewing screen shares in Teams. The framerate of the incoming video is extremely bad and drops to something like one frame per *minute*. In these cases I have had better result using the web version instead of the ordinary client. Still not super fluid, but at least good enough so you can follow the conversion.

src - https://www.rlvision.com/blog/ms-teams-fullscreen-view

 

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Download TEAMS offline installer and join invitation link without account

1-
download offline installer (Teams_windows_x64.exe) by softpedia :
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Chat/Instant-Messaging/Microsoft-Teams.shtml

2-
use 7zip and open the Teams_windows_x64.exe then extract the Teams-*-full.nupkg to hard disk.
use 7zip and open the extracted Teams-*-full.nupkg go into folder lib and extract the one and only folder net45 to hard disk.

3- ( you can skip this step )
browse to extracted folder in your system and delete the Squirrel.exe, this action disables the TEAMS update.

4-
if you don't have Office 365 account, you cannot to connect to TEAMS,

incase you have invitation link, you have to run once the TEAMS and close it (this will register the TEAMS protocol to your system).

If try to login you will get the famous (due your mail account missing 365 authority) :

You're missing out! Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams

Open the invitation link to a browser, will ask you if you like to open it on TEAMS application.

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never tried - FossTeams, an open source client for Microsoft Teams