Office365 Co-Authoring
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is a technology, that allows you advanced collaboration with Microsoft Office files. One of the benefits is, that multiple users can work on an co-authoring friendly office file simultaneously.
KONNEKT can leverage Microsoft Office 365 Co-Authoring, when opening files from Windows File Explorer. In this case, KONNEKT just hands over the SharePoint URL of a file to the corresponding Microsoft 365 App (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint). The App will then load the file directly from SharePoint Online.
We recommend using Microsoft Office 365 Co-Authoring, since it has valuable benefits. This is why Co-Authoring is activated by default in KONNEKT.
However, if you do not want to use Co-Authoring and want to load office files through KONNEKT instead, you can use this setting and deactivate it.
Here are the possible settings:
Function
Value
Behavior
Disable
0
KONNEKT handles up- and downloads to SharePoint Online for Microsoft Offices files.
Files are opened exclusively - Office 365 Co-Authoring is not working.
Enable (default)
1
KONNEKT will delegate the file-handling to the Microsoft Office apps for KONNEKT files that are opened from Windows File Explorer.
Microsoft Office 365 Co-Authoring and Auto-Save is available for those files.
You can find this setting in the preferences menu:
Policy Name: Co-Authoring
Possible values: can be enabled or disabled.
The default value is enabled.
There are several ways to apply the policy:
Policies stored in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\GlueckKanja\Konnekt
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\GlueckKanja\Konnekt
We recommend to use our to configure this setting. You will find the policy in "System settings" in GPO editor.
via GPO, see
pushing policies via Intune, see