I have encountered recently a very annoying bug (yes, this is definitely not a feature) in Microsoft Teams meetings. I was taking over the control on another PC via Teams to edit a Word document on his PC. While typing in Word the letters rendered did not match to what I was typing. (I guess because my colleague has an other keyboard layout than mine. I have a German keyboard. He has an English one.)
Issue description
2 people A and B (me) having a Teams Meeting.
A is discussing a document on his PC while sharing his screen with B.
B wants to edit this document (instead of telling A what to type) and take the control.
When B types with remote control on A PC's it doesn't render the keys as it should.
Reason: A and B have different keyboards layouts (e.g. US vs. German/DE)
How to cope with it?
Switching the keyboard layout on the shared PC to fit to mine is a really poor workaround.
Telling the colleague what to type is also not what you wanted to do.
For office documents I would definitely instead of sharing control to edit use the co-editing feature.
This means you need to be prepared for the review or coaching session to have the document shared with you (e.g. via OneDrive) or that you have access to its cloud/ SharePoint location.
But this only works for office documents in a SharePoint.
Imagine you want to collaborate virtually not on an office document but on some code e.g. in VS Code (yes pair-programming is an agile best practice) or an email or anything else.
Here you definitely need a common access location and you have to switch which PC is sharing each time the author changes. And each time you hand-over the colleague you have to update your local version to the new version.
This would be so much easier if you could simply use the share control feature for editing on someone else 's PC.
Uservoice
Please, do vote for this uservoice: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/40156714-the-other-team-member-s-keyboard-layout-is-wrongly
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