Policy

Prevent co-authoring

This policy setting controls how Word opens a file for editing on document management servers that support co-authoring. If you enable this policy setting, Word will prevent co-authoring by taking an exclusive file lock. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Word will allow co-authoring by taking short-term shared locks. Note: When file synchronization via SOAP over HTTP is turned off it will prevent co-authoring.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Word 2016 / Collaboration Settings / Co-authoring
Policy ID 638f4e18d3f5
Internal name L_PreventCoAuthoring

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring\disablecoauthoring (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring\disablecoauthoring (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting controls how Word opens a file for editing on document management servers that support co-authoring. If you enable this policy setting, Word will prevent co-authoring by taking an exclusive file lock. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Word will allow co-authoring by taking short-term shared locks. Note: When file synchronization via SOAP over HTTP is turned off it will prevent co-authoring.

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