Turn on file viewing at the organizational level for Sharepoint and Onedrive

Question

We would like to enable file viewing history at the organizational level. Not at the individual site level via site owner. We are rolling out Microsoft labels and encrypted files must be opened with the browser version of Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). It would be helpful if we could determine who currently has that same file open in their browser so we could ask them to close it, if we would like to work out of the desktop version of Office. This link shows how to do it by each site owner, however we would like to enable across the entire tenant. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/allow-people-to-see-who-views-their-files-or-pages-ee26dde0-c30e-4eca-b1c3-38922c450967#:~:text=On%20the%20Site%20Settings%20page,SharePoint%20Viewers%2C%20and%20select%20Activate.

Answer 1

Hi @Blasi, Thomas ,

There is no way to enable file viewing setting directly in the tenant. Need to turn on at both the organization and individual site level to show viewer information. Unavoidable need to be turned on for each site.

Organizational level:Manage sharing settings for SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365

Site level:Allow people to see who views their files or pages

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