Policy
Prevent co-authoring
Microsoft Office
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
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.
Internal name
L_PreventCoAuthoring
Policy ID
638f4e18d3f5
Elements
0
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User | Path software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring Value name disablecoauthoring | REG_DWORD | HKCU 1 | HKCU 0 |
Registry location
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring
Value name
disablecoauthoring
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.