



The change that this setting makes is the metadata format and location for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. The labeling metadata includes information that identifies your tenant and applied sensitivity label. Metadata changes for sensitivity labelsĪfter you enable the setting for co-authoring, labeling information for unencrypted files is no longer saved in custom properties.ĭo not enable this setting if you use any apps, services, scripts, or tools that reads or writes labeling metadata to the old location.īefore you enable the setting to support co-authoring for Office desktop apps, it's important to understand that this action makes changes to the labeling metadata that is saved to and read from Office files. To read the release announcement, see the blog post Co-authoring on Microsoft Information Protection encrypted documents is now generally available. In addition, enabling this functionality results in the AutoSave functionality being supported for these labeled and encrypted files. Or, they must use Office on the web when sensitivity labels are enabled for Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive. As a result, they can't collaborate in real time. Without this setting enabled for your tenant, users must check out an encrypted document stored in SharePoint or OneDrive when they use Office desktop apps. For more information about Microsoft Purview, see the blog announcement.Įnable the setting to support co-authoring for Office desktop apps so that when documents are labeled and encrypted by sensitivity labels, multiple users can edit these documents at the same time. Microsoft 365 compliance is now called Microsoft Purview and the solutions within the compliance area have been rebranded.
