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.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
| Registry Path | software\policies\microsoft\office\14.0\word\coauthoring |
| Value Name | disablecoauthoring |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 1 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |