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Jenny_Bruce
Aug 04, 2022Brass Contributor
Block deletion compliance policy and document version history limits
Seeking advice from the community prior to raising as an issue with Microsoft. I have a SharePoint Online site collection where the owner only wants to retain 100 major versions of their files, and ...
Aug 07, 2022
Jenny_Bruce Hi Jenny, have you tried to create a new site collection for testing purposes?
- Create a new site collection
- Go to a document library and set the max versions to 3
- Add few files and edit them to have 5 versions
- Add the site into the Retention policy - SharePoint exclusion list
- Change the Doc library to allow 2 versions.
- Check if works.
- Remove the site from the retention policy - SharePoint exclusion list.