Enable version checking in MOSS

Question

I had a huge farm environment in SPS 2003 recently i migrated my older environment 2003 that was externally hard coded by the designers(Template was different as compare to default template in SPS 2003)in to MOSS using gradual upgarade method(Using stsadm command). Everything goes fine but in document libraries of many site collection along with the root site, Version checking is disable , and its very difficult for me to check each and every site collection and document library and enable the version checking option after going to the settings of document library .

Is there any way or method where i can directly run a script and automatically get enabled in every document library in my SharePoint farm.

Kindly suggest.

Answer 1

That is a job for a powershell script (Yes, you can use Powershell in 2007, you just have to do it without the Get-SP... cmdlets). Get a handle to the site collection, then iterate through all of the lists in all of the webs and set the various versioning properties to what you are expecting (there are three or four properties related to versioning). Be sure to call .Update() for each list when you enable the versioning.

However, SharePoint has a lot of hidden lists that you probably don't want to mess with so you might also want to make sure that the List you are looking at is not .Hidden and that it is not in _catalogs.

Here is the rough shell of the powershell script you would probably need :

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

$site = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite]("http://UrlToSiteCollectionRoot/")

$site.AllWebs | % {
    $_.Lists | % {
        # make sure it is not .Hidden and in _catalogs
        # set the versioning properties you want
        $_.Update()
    }
}

$site.Dispose()