Avoiding Minor/Major limits errors

Question

I have a SharePoint online document library, and we have enabled minor and major versioning, now some documents will be edited by many users, so we are expecting that the Major (50,000) & Minor (511) versions might be reached.

I know if these limits are met then the users will get errors. So, if I define the following, will we avoid getting any errors as we will guarantee that the limits will never get met:

Answer 1

Why would you make the assumption? I've encountered users who met the minor version limit -- education is key, here. Educate your users to perform major version publishing as required, or disable minor versioning.

Answer 2

To avoid the errors you can always limit the versions so that If your list or library exceed the limit set by you, then earlier versions will be deleted when the version limit is reached.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-versioning-works-in-lists-and-libraries-0f6cd105-974f-44a4-aadb-43ac5bdfd247?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

Versioning Best Practices

Answer 3

You can set limit the versions to avoid errors.

As the official document says, SharePoint in Microsoft 365 Library Settings allows a range of 100-50000 major versions and each major version allows up to 511 minor versions.

If the threshold is exceeded, SharePoint online will automatically delete the oldest (major/minor) version.

Reference:

• How versioning works in lists and libraries