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Silver Contributor

Oct 21, 2016

a way to retrieve metadata of a previous version of a file? (using CSOM in PowerShell in SPO)

I am using CSOM in PowerShell, querying SharePoint Online, but in general, I am looking for a way to retrieve what a specific column/value was on previous versions of a document programmatically. ...

Velin Georgiev

Brass Contributor

Sep 03, 2017

Hi Brent Ellis, have a look at the https://dev.office.com/blogs/new-sharepoint-csom-version-released-for-Office-365-august-2017 release, especially those classes:

public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItem.Versions
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItemVersion
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItemVersionCollection

I have not seen what is in these classes yet, if they do not work for you then you can assess the List Item Version Metatdata item from the _vti_bin/Lists.asmx service. More info here: http://blog.velingeorgiev.pro/how-get-list-item-field-versions-data-sharepoint-online. It is not ideal solution ad would be great if the august update offers that, but it is the only alternative I found so far.

Jim Duncan
Iron Contributor
May 25, 2022
Velin Georgiev That last link now takes the user to a malware site. I know this post is from 5 years ago, but still...
Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Sep 05, 2017
Appreciate all the responses, I managed to figure it out a while back (but didn't update this thread), but I believe I used this CSOM route you referenced to do it.
- Dinesh Natarajan
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 16, 2017
  Hi Brent,
  
  Can you pls share your solution which you implemented. Thanks!
  
  Dinesh