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CaptainReboot
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Jul 04, 2023

Changing number of versions to keep

So by default, I believe a new SPO site sets the version history number to 500.  This number is even higher on some of our sites. This is causing our SharePoint storage to be heavily inflated than wh...
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ganeshsanap
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Jul 05, 2023

CaptainReboot As per the documentation Set-SPOTenant, you can set the maximum major version limit at tenant level.

 

But, you might get an error while using EnableAutoExpirationVersionTrim parameter in commands some times as it is still an experimental feature and might not be available for your SharePoint tenant yet.

 

Microsoft will be releasing some new features related to this parameter and version history in November 2023 and then GA will be around March 2024.

 

Till then you might need to do version limit changes for individual libraries using PowerShell if above parameter does not work for your tenant.

 

Yes, newest 100 versions will be kept and older versions will be deleted. You can change the number of versions to keep as per your company/project requirements. 50-100 versions might be enough for some customers and some customers might want to keep more than those.

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