Versioning Settings for SharePoint list using powershell

In this article we will be seeing how to configure versioning settings for SharePoint list using powershell.

Go to SharePoint site => Shared Documents => Library Settings => Versioning Settings => you can configure the versioning settings for the document library.

You could see four sections

Content Approval
Document Version History
Draft Item Security
Require Check out

Content Approval:

C# code snippet:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/"))

{

using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)

{

SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];

list.EnableModeration = true;

list.Update();

}

Powershell Script:

$siteURL="http://servername:1111/"

$listName="Shared Documents"

$site=Get-SPSite $siteURL

$web=$site.RootWeb

$list=$web.Lists[$listName]

$list.EnableModeration = $true

$list.Update()

Document Version History:

C# code snippet:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/"))

{

using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)

{

SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];

list.EnableVersioning = true;

list.EnableMinorVersions = true;

list.MajorWithMinorVersionsLimit = 3;

list.MajorVersionLimit = 2;

list.Update();

}

Powershell Script:

$siteURL="http://servername:1111/"

$listName="Shared Documents"

$site=Get-SPSite $siteURL

$web=$site.RootWeb

$list=$web.Lists[$listName]

$list.EnableVersioning = $true

$list.EnableMinorVersions = $true

$list.MajorWithMinorVersionsLimit = 3

$list.MajorVersionLimit = 2

$list.Update()

Draft Item Security:

C# code snippet:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/"))

{

using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)

{

SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];

list.DraftVersionVisibility = DraftVisibilityType.Author;

list.Update();

}

Powershell Script:

$siteURL="http://servername:1111/"

$listName="Shared Documents"

$site=Get-SPSite $siteURL

$web=$site.RootWeb

$list=$web.Lists[$listName]

$list.DraftVersionVisibility = [Microsoft.SharePoint.DraftVisibilityType]::Author

$list.Update()

Require Check Out:

C# code snippet:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/"))

{

using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)

{

SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];

list.ForceCheckout = true;

list.Update();

}

Powershell Script:

$siteURL="http://servername:1111/"

$listName="Shared Documents"

$site=Get-SPSite $siteURL

$web=$site.RootWeb

$list=$web.Lists[$listName]

$list.ForceCheckout = $false

$list.Update()