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Preventing users from deleting a document's version history
We moved our entire company file storage to OneDrive and I love the versioning feature for all documents in case someone accidently deletes a file or they edit something they weren't supposed to. However, to me it looks like all users can just as easily delete any of the versions which poses a security risk (see picture). Why have backups when anyone can just delete them if they wanted to be that way?
After extensive research I couldn't figure out how to turn off that feature, so I took to this community. Please help! Thank you.
- If you place a retention policy on your SharePoint / OneDrive sites, then version histories cannot be deleted, you will get an error saying you cannot delete version history while a site is under retention policy or legal hold.
ChrisWebbTech Thank you Chris for that suggestion!
Is there no other way from a permissions standpoint to disallow anyone (or a select group of users) to delete version history? I just feel like this should be a standard feature and am a bit surprised that any employee with access to a document can just wipe out all the backups with a click of a button.
