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Making it so users cant disable autosave in office apps
Hi all,
Is it possible to stop users from turning off autosave on office apps ie word through Intune?
Thanks in advance!
- If I am reading it correctly, he is looking for a method to DISABLE the possibility to turn off autosave, not to turn it off?
I don't know for certain when you disable that setting you mentioned is going to grey out the possibility to turn it off? Of did I read it totally wrong 🙂 ?
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- Also interested in this! Turning off Autosave is a mess, some older people do it, because of "I always had to save a file manually" or "I can first work without thinking, then begin to think and realize it is all wrong, ok close without saving" or "Because saving a copy first than edit is not logical".
With AutoSave off we have many Sync errors and missing parts in the Documents, so it would be great to enforce the use of it. - Hi ab21805,
You can set this via a PowerShell script or gpo. Please take a look at the following blogs
Method 1: Via gpo and oma uri
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/turn-off-autosave-via-group-policy-or-office-365/ee436c6f-57c4-446f-b2b7-652783110d0d
https://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/deep-dive-ingesting-third-party-admx-files/
Please take a look also at the settings catalog profile in intune, maybe these settings are already present, and ready to use but I don’t know that
Method 2: Registry and PowerShell
https://lazyadmin.nl/it/disable-autosave-for-office-365/
Kind regards,
René- If I am reading it correctly, he is looking for a method to DISABLE the possibility to turn off autosave, not to turn it off?
I don't know for certain when you disable that setting you mentioned is going to grey out the possibility to turn it off? Of did I read it totally wrong 🙂 ?Mr_Helaas Rudy_Ooms_MVP Hi Both,
So can I not DISABLE the possibility to turn off autosave? So that it stays on all the time
