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SharePoint Versioning - Accessing Older Versions

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We had set the versioning setting for our library to  limit to '5 Major Versions' and 5 drafts for each major'. In our org we don't have the practice of publishing major version and instead work on the minor versioning itself.

 

A new employee, out of habit published her changes as Major versions every time she made a change, which resulted in all the version history (in our minor versions) being lost, since she published major version more than 5 times. So the first Major version published was 1.0 and then we have 2.0 up-to 6.0. And since it published 6.0 so it didn't keep the draft versions associated with 1.0 also.

 

a) Is there a way to restore the older minor versions (0.1, 0.2, 0.3 etc) from the backups which O-365 might be taking ?

b) Is there any setting to restrict users from publishing the major versions.

 

Thanks.

 

 

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best response confirmed by Vivek Jain (Brass Contributor)
Solution

You should file a support ticket for a restore. 

You can go through this process, there are 2 time x day backups done, and support can restore the site collection for you. These backups support the versioning of the documents. 

 

I hope this helps!

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best response confirmed by Vivek Jain (Brass Contributor)
Solution

You should file a support ticket for a restore. 

You can go through this process, there are 2 time x day backups done, and support can restore the site collection for you. These backups support the versioning of the documents. 

 

I hope this helps!

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