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Default Versioning Settings - Number of Versions to retain
It appears that the default versioning settings for OneDrive are for 500 major versions. Is there a way to reduce this default globally? It doesn't appear so via the GUI but was wondering if perhap...
If you are concerned about consuming space, keep in mind this is 500 versions, but not 500 copies of the file, only changed portions of the file. Also, using Office Online saves the file frequently and drives up the version count, as does co-authoring. Then additionally, OneDrive only syncs the currently copy to devices.
I think that's only the case with MS Office documents, about which the infrastructure can ascertain what changes have been made. I have a user who moved an Outlook PST file to their OneDrive folder (with good reasons at the time) and because that PST is the delivery location for an active mailbox that ended up with over 11,000 versions of the entire PST consuming all of their 1TB OneDrive storage.