Is it possible to have the client shared window stretch beyond one window width?

Specifically, I wish to take the window that appears when viewing a shared desktop and stretch it past my first monitor to take the whole width of both monitors. Currently my mouse stops at the border of the first monitor.

Is this expected behavior?

I am using win 7 professional 64 bit with the Lync client "Lync 2010 4.0.7577.4061".

Thanks for your time.

-Dennis

In windows you have the option for duplicate, extend and projector only if you choose duplicate then in both monitors you will see same window if you select extend then lync can be on window. It is the same way as you do for Microsoft power point or word. If your screen supports to show both monitor as the same width then is it possible but for this you might require other kind of screens. in normal cases what ever is happening with you is the expected behaviour.

Thank you for the reply.

You mention Word and Power Point in your answer and based on your details I am not certain you and I are on the same page. Let me give a bit more detail. For both home and work I have two monitors side by side. I have my desktop setup that it stretches (is extended) across both. I can take a word or power point document and stretch it across both monitors so that I have half the document on the left (1st monitor) and half of it on the right (2nd monitor).

I cannot take a Lync application that is showing a shared desktop (no matter what size the source is) and stretch past the width of the first monitor. For that matter I cannot do this if I start the process on the second monitor.

Does that help describe the problem?

Now if you did understand the problem, and your last line is suggesting that this is indeed expected behavior... then I hope someone has submitted a change request or request for enhancement!!

hi,

Thanks for clarification. It was my bad. But during the shared desktop does lync gives you the option that which monitor do you want to share. If yes then in this case only shared monitor can be viewed, and the other one can not be. If lync doesnt give you the option that which monitor do you wan to share and it assumes that both monitors are one monitor and stil you are not able to stretch then we can look in to this.

Hope above helps

Ah ok I see the confusion.

No it isn't the source, the person who is sharing that is the concern. They could be sharing a single desktop that is 1900x1600 on a single monitor. The problem is the person who is viewing that via a the Lync desktop share (the stage). That end person cannot stretch their "Lync application stage that is showing the other persons desktop" past their own first monitors width.

This is expected behaviour. The sharing  stage can only be viewed on one monitor and not across monitors.

Thank you for the verification. It is my hope that this will be fixed so that I can stretch that window to the full width of all my monitors.

While I realize this is currently the expected behavior, are there any plans to change this in an updated release in the near future?  This is a real desktop sharing limiter.  I work with several remote people that all have dual monitors or that have a very large monitors.  I have dual monitors.  In either case it is often that we want to share out both monitors or the entire screen.  However, to the other person viewing the sharing session (and that has dual monitors), the share is scrunched down onto only one of their screens and can't be expanded across both of their screens.  With other applications or even Remote Desktop you can expand it to display across both screens.  With Lync however you cannot.  You are forced to limit them to only share one screen at a time (so you can see it large enough) or squint.  Please advise.

While I realize this is currently the expected behavior, are there any plans to change this in an updated release in the near future?  This is a real desktop sharing limiter.  I work with several remote people that all have dual monitors or that have a very large monitors.  I have dual monitors.  In either case it is often that we want to share out both monitors or the entire screen.  However, to the other person viewing the sharing session (and that has dual monitors), the share is scrunched down onto only one of their screens and can't be expanded across both of their screens.  With other applications or even Remote Desktop you can expand it to display across both screens.  With Lync however you cannot.  You are forced to limit them to only share one screen at a time (so you can see it large enough) or squint.  Please advise.

So here I sit at work trying to look at someone's shared screen and I can only view this on one of my monitors that I have standing vertical....  I have to click the button "actual size" and scroll forever left and right to see what is going on. Very very poor.

This problem really needs to be bumped in priority. Is there a place that we can go vote on this problem? If you don't consider this a bug, then we need to talk to the right people and try to show them the "use case" and why this is a bug.

-Dennis

FYI. I found a way to work around this issue at least if you have a new ATI/AMD card.

Download the latest version of ATI/AMD driver and setup an Eyefinity Multi-Display. After I setup my two monitors as "one" big one, Lync was able to stretch the desktop across both screens.

-Dennis

I Agree. "Expected behaviour" or not, Lync shouldn't behave this way. It is extremely unhelpful. Reminds me of an old programmer's joke... when is a bug not a bug? Answer: when it's documented, coz then its a feature!

Qolin

I will second (or third) that motion...strangely enough the old "Live Meeting" application supported this feature perfect...seems like a move in the wrong direction for Lync not to support it.  Having two monitors is pretty common among the people with whom I work.

NVIDIA has a similar option called "Mosaic" on the NVIDIA control panel.

NVIDIA has a similar option called "Mosaic" on the NVIDIA control panel.

Do you happen to know which product family supports this? I cannot seem to locate this option within the control panel for a NVS 3100M Driver version 320.00. The NVidia control panel "about" shows 7.2.710.0.