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Bronze Contributor

Jul 01, 2021

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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!

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Rudy_Ooms_MVP
Jul 11, 2021
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

Iron Contributor

Jul 11, 2021

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

Rudy_Ooms_MVP

MVP

Jul 11, 2021

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 🙂 ?

AB21805
Bronze Contributor
Jul 12, 2021
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
- Rudy_Ooms_MVP
  MVP
  Jul 12, 2021
  Hi
  
  Not that I am aware off... unfotunately
  - AB21805
    Bronze Contributor
    Jul 12, 2021
    Mr_Helaas Rudy_Ooms_MVP
    
    Ok thanks both for the quick response.
- Mr_Helaas
  Iron Contributor
  Jul 12, 2021
  Hi AB21805,
  
  In my opinion it is not possible to enforce it.
  
  The user have always the possibility to manually turn Autosave off.
  With GPO is their only a possibility to disable the autosave function but, not to enforce autosave.
  
  Rene
Mr_Helaas
Iron Contributor
Jul 11, 2021
Hi Rudy,

My bad.

You're correct he don't want to disable the possibility to turn off auto save but he want to enforce it.

My answer isn't correct. I installed the GPO and I see the description "turn off autoSave by default in Excel". I thought when you set it to disable the autosave setting will be enforced.

This policy setting allows you to turn off AutoSave by default in Word. AutoSave automatically saves all changes a user makes to files that are stored in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online.

If you enable this policy setting, AutoSave is off by default in Word. But, the user can enable AutoSave for Word by going to File > Options > Save. Or, the user can enable AutoSave for a specific Word file by using the AutoSave toggle in the title bar.

If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, AutoSave is on by default, but the user can disable AutoSave by going to File > Options > Save or by using the AutoSave toggle.