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SharePoint 2010 Boundaries, Thresholds and Supported Limits

October 19, 2010 by Joel Jeffery

When you’re designing an Information Architecture with SharePoint in mind, there are some technical limitations and boundaries that will influence your choices in how you create Farms, Web Applications, Site Collections and Sites.

Microsoft documents 3 different main kind of limits inside SharePoint:

  1. Boundaries – these are physical limits beyond which SharePoint will not let you reach.
  2. Thresholds – these are default limits that you can increase or decrease, but there may be knock-on implications of changing these values.
  3. Supported Limits – these are empirically tested values for usage of different SharePoint artefacts beyond which it is possible and feasible to stray, but you will be out of support by Microsoft.

A full list of these SharePoint limits is available on TechNet. But here are some of the main ones you’ll encounter.

SharePoint Boundaries – Maximum Values

SharePoint Boundaries

SharePoint Thresholds – Maximum Values

SharePoint Thresholds

SharePoint Supported Limits – Maximum Values

SharePoint Supported Limits

Hopefully you’ll find these to be a useful starting point when turning an Information Architecture view into a Site Hierarchy in SharePoint.

Filed Under: SharePoint Tagged With: Information Architecture, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Architecture

Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
He has over 20 years' experience with SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
He's also co-founder of Microsoft Gold Partner JFDI Consulting Ltd. Read More…

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On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number. 
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata. 
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time. 
Use metadata.

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#spthingaday 003 - Information Architecture. Folders are evil. Use metadata. #SharePoint, #Office365..
On a fileshare, all you have is path and filename. That's the only axis by which you can classify your stuff. So you nest folders, within folders, within folders. Then you pack the filename with extra bits of information - like the initials of the last editor, or the version number.
You don't need to do this in SharePoint. Use metadata.
Add columns to your libraries. Text columns, number columns, choice columns, managed metadata columns. Each file can have several of these values simultaneously. But a file can only live in one folder at a time.
Use metadata.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement
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#spthingaday 006 - Information Architecture. Site #spthingaday 006 - Information Architecture. Site Columns.  #SharePoint, #Office365, #InformationArchitecture.. Once you've chosen a column type, you can create that column again and again, on as many Lists and Libraries as you like. But each time you do that, you run the risk of introducing a typo or getting a setting wrong.

Cut down on the typing and the typos by using Site Columns instead. You can create a Site Column once, and reuse it on as many Lists and Libraries as you like. Once created, you can use your Site Column within the current site and below. For maximum reuse, create Site Columns at the root web or top-level site in your Site Collection.

When naming your Site Column, don't put spaces in the title. The internal name of a Site Column has spaces replaced with the ungainly string "_x0020_". This causes developers lots of headaches later. By all means rename/retitle your Site Column with proper spaces, if you want to, after you've created it.

Site Columns help with consistency, but for the biggest return on investment, use them with Content Types.

We'll talk about that those tomorrow.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

#spthingaday 006 - Information Architecture. Site Columns. #SharePoint, #Office365, #InformationArchitecture.. Once you've chosen a column type, you can create that column again and again, on as many Lists and Libraries as you like. But each time you do that, you run the risk of introducing a typo or getting a setting wrong.

Cut down on the typing and the typos by using Site Columns instead. You can create a Site Column once, and reuse it on as many Lists and Libraries as you like. Once created, you can use your Site Column within the current site and below. For maximum reuse, create Site Columns at the root web or top-level site in your Site Collection.

When naming your Site Column, don't put spaces in the title. The internal name of a Site Column has spaces replaced with the ungainly string "_x0020_". This causes developers lots of headaches later. By all means rename/retitle your Site Column with proper spaces, if you want to, after you've created it.

Site Columns help with consistency, but for the biggest return on investment, use them with Content Types.

We'll talk about that those tomorrow.

#microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement
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