PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators

CHAPTER 17Managing Versioning

SharePoint 2010 offers a lot of features for enterprise document management. One commonly used feature is versioning, where you have the option to store both major and minor versions of files and list items. Content approval gives you the opportunity to hide minor versions from end users, leaving only published major versions visible.

One downside to versioning is that each version is stored as a full copy of the document or list item in the content database. Suppose that an end user has a 10MB PowerPoint presentation and has saved it ten times, generating ten versions. That will use 100MB of space in the content database. If the document library also allows minor versions, an additional copy will be added for ...