Introduction When versioning is turned on for a SharePoint list or document library, there are times when you may need to report on the number of list item versions, or delete versions that exceed a threshold. These scenarios can happen if; 1. Version limits (for the maximum number of major/minor versions) were not set, and the list has too many versions 2. Version limits are being applied or reduced, and you need to retrospectively delete all the versions in a list that exceed the new threshold* 3. You are performing an upgrade, and you want to prune the versions of pages in the pages library (on a publishing site) 4. You want to run a report to determine how many items in a list have more than "x" number of versions *When the version settings are changed on a list, existing versions on existing items in the list are not changed until the item is modified. Therefore, if you reduce the maximum number of versions to be kept for items in a list, the changes only take effec...
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