Manage versioning by using quotas (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

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Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

 

Topic Last Modified: 2008-07-17

Versioning enables you to store, track, and restore items in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list and files in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 library as they are changed. Versioning is not controlled at the server-farm level. It must be configured separately on each list or library. For administrators, versioning is a matter of concern. This is because if sites have many versions of files and documents, they can become quite large. If you do not set size quotas on sites, the sites can surpass storage capacity.

For more information about planning versioning, see Plan for versioning (Windows SharePoint Services).

To configure versioning, you must be a member of the site owners security group. Because configuring versioning is a matter that is often out of the scope of the administrator's responsibilities, the way that the farm administrator can control the effects of versioning is by establishing service level agreements with site owners and by specifying size quotas on sites.

Create, edit, and delete site quota templates

To create, edit, or delete a site quota template, see Create quota templates (Windows SharePoint Services)

See Also

Concepts

Protect and restore content by using Recycle Bins and versioning (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)
Enable and configure versioning (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)
Configure and manage the Recycle Bin (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)