OneDrive: Office Files on Hold

If a tenant has the (EnableHoldTheFile) GPO enabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then end users can open the file in Office to merge changes. If a tenant has the GPO disabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then OneDrive automatically creates a copy of the file in conflict. When tenants have this GPO disabled, it leads to end users potentially having to manually merge hundreds of conflicts because OneDrive automatically forks a file instead of allowing the users to have the option to merge conflicts in Office. The proposal no longer allows tenants to disable this GPO thus not automatically forking a file when in conflict for end users.

Product OneDrive
Release phase General Availability
Release date April CY2025
Platform Mac
Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC
Created 2024-10-31
Roadmap ID 429875
Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=429875


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