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Versioning consuming TB's of tenant storage
Is anyone else seeing version history in Document libraries consuming HUGE (I am seeing TB's of storage consumed in my Tenant)? I noticed we were consuming a lot of storage month over month, so c...
This is a known limitation.
Organizations typically resort to using PowerShell scripts or apps (example) to keep the versions (and the associated storage consumption) under control.
Looks like Microsoft is going to address this: see Roadmap 145802
As others have mentioned, there are scripts and tools that can help deal with these issues.
For example, this tool can delete versions in bulk (by number of versions to keep). Furthermore, it can update versioning settings in bulk (e.g. for all libraries in a site collection or in the entire tenant). It can also set major version limit below 100. DMS-Shuttle
