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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.
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.