Prevent co-authoring

Category

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Word 2016 > Collaboration Settings > Co-authoring

Scope

User

Registry Key

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring

Description

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.