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Disable co-authoring at document library level (SPO)?
Hi,
As the title reads, is there a way of turing off co-authoring at document library level? At the moment the technology is causing some major headaches for users and it would be good to be able to toggle it off until issues are resolved.
Cheers
Rob
If you modify the library to require checkout that should disable co-authoring. Library settings- Versioning Settings - Require checkout.
It does require some discipline on the users to check the documents back in.
Rob-CTL This issue may or may not have been resolved by you in the meantime however they do support it (now) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/governance/disable-co-authoring
sysadmin1515I don't think that applies to SP Online
perhaps ErkanCh but would altering the gpo not apply to the desktop applications?
If you modify the library to require checkout that should disable co-authoring. Library settings- Versioning Settings - Require checkout.
It does require some discipline on the users to check the documents back in.
- Require Check out works but yeah definitely will cause more problems. What issues are you having? I'd just change your document libraries to use client instead of browser when opening office documents. Unless all your users are on ProPlus this will also keep co-auth from happening because Office client will lock the documents. If you are all on the latest builds with Auto save in the client, then you can tell your users to turn off auto save, this will also lock the documents (turn off coauth). Might be a way to Group policy that, but not sure if there is a new Group policy tools that include that setting or not yet.
Thanks for the reply. I don't want to go down the check out process, bring back memories of SPS2003 which were dark days! :)
Interesting comment re forcing the documents to open in the client rather than the browser, I'll look into that one. Didn't know the co-authoring was dependant on Auto-save being enabled, I've got some registry edits to switch auto-save off so I might also give that a go.
The issue, latency on the OD syncing. For example two people editing a Excel sheet, within the desktop client. The first user finishes what they are doing and saves and exits. The second user can't save their changes until the sync has happened from the first users PC to SharePoint, this can take minutes and during this time the second user is getting some horrible messages about loosing their changes etc. Finally the sync will complete and the second users computer will get the sync update and then they are able to save. I thought it was a broadband issue but that seems to be coping ok (monitored the link utilisation). It looks like it's down to the spec of the PCs vs the amount of items that OneDrive is handling. This is the new Windows 10 1709 OneDrive client so the majority of the files are cloud only but there are over 100k items in this particular document library.
- No, it's not
