Apply Require Check Out Feature to all available sites' libraries

Question

I have a task to enable the 'Require Check Out' feature on each document library on all sites we have. See the picture below:

There are about 20 sites in our site collection and each site has only one document library where I need to enable the feature. Is there any bulk option to change the feature for all libraries at once?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can easily do it with PowerShell script.It is having attribute $list.ForceCheckout = $true

for more reference you can refer this Change SharePoint list settings using PowerShell - Part 1: General and Versioning

Please let me know if it help you.

Thanks

Answer 2

You can use below PowerShell command to set Require Check Out feature on each document library on all sites

    foreach ($web in (Get-SPSite -Limit All | Get-SPWeb -Limit All))
         {
            Write-Host “Processing Web: $($web.Url)…”
            foreach ($list in ($web.Lists | ? {$_ -is [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPDocumentLibrary]}))
            {
    $list.ForceCheckout = $true;
    $list.Update();

   }