Real-time presence in Microsoft Office with Google Drive File Stream
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Posted on
10-29-2018
03:42 AM
- last edited
3 weeks ago
by
kh-richa_mig
So, I've just seen a new feature of Google Drive File Stream on Mac that allows 'real-time presence in Microsoft Office'.
[https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/09/real-time-presence-in-microsoft-office.html](link URL)
Does anyone know how to manage this centrally? It seems to require some accessibility settings to be turned on, which requires an administrator permission.
Thanks
Tim

- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Posted on 11-27-2018 12:42 PM
Creating a custom config profile for the domain com.google.drivefs.settings will disable it for all users, which is what we wanted.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>DisableRealTimePresence</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Posted on 11-30-2018 11:13 AM
Do you have a way to enable it for all users? I got a support ticket on this today.
Thanks!
Mike
