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antonyberry
Sep 01, 2025Copper Contributor
Disable presence in SharePoint Online file viewer - anyone got Roadmap ID419814 working?
Hi All - Happy September! We publish sensitive internal content (e.g., salary scales) in SharePoint Online for easy, up-to-date access. The issue: when hundreds of colleagues open the read-only Word...
DaveMehr365
Oct 16, 2025MVP
this feature works on site level wit h pdf and office document, when this feature is active, user don't see other people they have opened the file.
You can activate this feature with PowerShell:
Set-SPOSite -identity https://<TENANT>.sharepoint.com/sites/DocumentStore -HidePeoplePreviewingFiles $true
You can test your details question on your own site.
Best, Dave