Changes are coming to Document Library versioning!
Microsoft are planning to enable versioning on all Document Libraries in OneDrive for Business and teams sites in SharePoint Online. This includes both group-connected team sites and teams sites that aren’t connected to an Office 365 group. The plan is to gradually roll this out to Target Release customers in early June, and then aim to complete the full roll out worldwide by the end of July.
What are the changes?
All SharePoint and OneDrive libraries are to be set to retain by default a minimum of 100 major versions. For users existing libraries that already have versioning enabled but are set to retain less than the new default 100 major versions, will be updated to retain 100 major versions as a minimum. However Microsoft have said that if a document library is set to retain over the new default at the moment will not be effected by the change. With these changes coming into effect the Document Library Settings page will no longer support the ability to disable versioning or be able to configure it to retain less then one hundred versions.
While this update does give the ability to increase the number of possible versions saved for any document, most customers should not experience a great increase in storage usage because of the change. Microsoft also announced earlier in the year that they did plan to increase the amount of storage space in SharePoint Online for a per user license storage allocation. This will allow a better level of collaboration and storage capacity for organisations using Office 365 and SharePoint Online.
