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ThierryB
Feb 01, 2021Brass Contributor
Default version limit
Hi, I don't find any information about the default limit for file versioning in OneDrive for Business linked to my E3 licenses. Is this a limit of amount of version, of time? I don't find cle...
KellyDJones
Feb 01, 2021Brass Contributor
Hi ThierryB . A few years ago, Microsoft set the document library version history defaults to:
- Versioning on
- Versions to keep 500
You can change the number of versions, but you can go no lower than 100 versions.
This applies to both SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
Here's a Microsoft blog post about the new minimum number of versions: New Updates to OneDrive and SharePoint Team Site Versioning - Microsoft Tech Community:
Can I disable versioning?
With these changes, the document library settings page will no longer support the ability to disable versioning or configure it to retain fewer than one hundred versions. Developer APIs, however, will still allow for setting any custom retention count and disabling versioning, however for the reasons stated above this is highly discouraged.
Here's some Microsoft documentation:
- ThierryBFeb 04, 2021Brass Contributor
KellyDJones thanks but no clear reference to OneDrive on these docs.
The OneDrive docs do not show that information neither
- KellyDJonesFeb 04, 2021Brass Contributor
ThierryB - The blog post refers to both OneDrive and SharePoint changes, which are then detailed in the other links. I guess they don't refer to OneDrive by name in those detailed pages, but I think that's an oversight in the documentation because they do apply to OneDrive.