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# Control Access to Chatter Desktop

Chatter Desktop is enabled for most organizations, but administrators can control access to Chatter Desktop.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td>

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              <p>Available in: <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>,
                <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, <strong>Contact Manager</strong>,
                <strong>Developer</strong>, and <strong>Database.com</strong> Editions
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              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Salesforce CRM, Approvals,
                Chatter email notifications, Chatter Invitations, and customer invitations are not
                available in <strong>Database.com</strong>.</p>
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![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/images/icon_important.png)

Important Chatter Desktop was retired in June 2018. For more information, see [Chatter Desktop Retirement](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000267581&type=1&language=en_US).

1. From Setup, enter Chatter Desktop Settings in the Quick Find box, then select **Chatter Desktop Settings**.
2. To allow users to access Chatter data from Chatter Desktop, select Enable Chatter Desktop.
    
    To block access to the Chatter Desktop self-installation page and prevent all instances of Chatter Desktop from accessing Chatter data, deselect this option.
3. To prevent non-administrators from installing Chatter Desktop, select Allow Chatter Desktop Managed Installations Only.
    
    For example, select this option if your IT department plans to deploy Chatter Desktop to your organization.
4. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Salesforce Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_setting_up.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "With Chatter, users can collaborate on sales opportunities, service cases, campaigns, and projects with embedded apps and custom actions. Salesforce channels, which bring Slack into Salesforce, are another way to collaborate on records. In new orgs created in Summer ’26 and later, Salesforce channels are enabled by default, and Chatter is disabled. You can enable Chatter in these orgs if necessary, and you can continue to use Chatter in existing orgs.")
- [Install Chatter Desktop Managed Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_desktop_installing_managed_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce provides two Chatter Desktop installers: a standard version for individual installations and a managed version for enterprise deployments.")
- [Configure Chatter Desktop Managed Version](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_desktop_configuring_managed_version.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Control Chatter Desktop settings by deploying an XML-based configuration file to each user's machine. The configuration in the file overrides the user's settings.")