As a SharePoint beginner, you must learn how to disable versioning in the SharePoint Online list and library. Follow this tutorial to get all the information about how to turn off versioning in SharePoint Online, like:
- Disable Versioning in SharePoint Online List
- Disable Versioning in SharePoint Document Library using PnP PowerShell
Disable Versioning in SharePoint Online
Versioning is one of the most useful features of the SharePoint Online document library. If you have enabled versioning, then you can store, track changes or modifications, and restore changes in the SharePoint list or library.
Also, you can check the changes that you have done and restore them from various previous versions. It saves the last 500 versions of a document library.
No Versioning Option not Available in SharePoint Online
As per the latest updates, we can’t get the No versioning option in Modern SharePoint lists or libraries. Refer to the screenshot below.
Note:
No versioning option has been removed from both the group connected team sites as well as from the team sites not connected to an Office 365 Group.
Disable Versioning in SharePoint Online List
As I said, the No versioning option is not available in the SharePoint document libraries, so we can not disable versioning document libraries.
However, the option is still available in the SharePoint Online list. To disable versioning opinion in the SharePoint Online list, you can follow the below steps. Such as:
1. On the SharePoint list Settings page [Gear icon -> List Settings], click on the Versioning settings under the General settings section, as shown below.
2. On the Versioning Settings page, select the No option in “Create a version each time you edit an item in this list” and select the OK button.
This way we can turn off versioning in the SharePoint Online list.
Disable Versioning in SharePoint Document Library using PnP PowerShell
To disable versioning in the SharePoint Online document library using PnP PowerShell, follow the below steps. Such as:
1. Use the PowerShell command below to turn off versioning in the SharePoint Online document library, providing $SiteURL and $ListName.
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://szg52-admin.sharepoint.com/"
$SiteURL="https://szg52.sharepoint.com/sites/Marketing"
$ListName = "PolicyDocuments"
Connect-PnPOnline $SiteURL -Interactive
Set-PnPList -Identity $ListName -EnableVersioning $FalseWhere,
- “https://szg52.sharepoint.com/sites/Marketing” = SharePoint Online Site name
- “PolicyDocuments” = SharePoint document library name