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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 ...
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?