Limit Name |
SharePoint 2010 Maximum Value |
SharePoint 2013 Maximum
Value |
Web application limits |
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Web application |
Not Published |
20 per farm |
Content database |
300 per Web application |
300 per Web application |
Zone |
5 per Web application |
5 per Web application |
Managed path |
20 per Web application |
20 per Web application |
Solution cache size |
300 MB per Web application |
300 MB per Web application |
Site collection |
250,000 per Web application |
250,000 per Web application |
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Web server and application server limits |
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10 per Web server |
10 per Web server
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Content database limits |
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Number of content databases
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300 per Web application |
500 per farm |
Content database size (general usage scenarios) |
200 GB per content database |
200 GB per content database |
Content database size (all usage scenarios) |
4 TB per content database |
4 TB per content database |
Content database size (document archive scenario) |
No explicit content database limit |
No explicit content database limit |
Content database items |
60 million items including documents and list
items |
60 million items including documents and list
items |
Site collections per content database |
2,000 recommended 5,000 maximum |
2,000 recommended 5,000 maximum |
MySites per content database |
Not Published |
5,000 per content database |
Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) storage subsystem on Network Attached Storage
(NAS) |
Time to first byte of any response from the NAS cannot
exceed 20 milliseconds |
Time to first byte of any response from the NAS cannot
exceed 20 milliseconds |
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Site collection limits |
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Not Published |
2,000,000 per farm |
Web site |
250,000 per site collection |
250,000 per site collection |
MySites per farm |
Not Published |
500,000 per farm |
Site collection size |
Maximum size of the content database |
Maximum size of the content database |
Number of device channels per publishing site collection |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
10 |
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List and library limits |
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8,000 bytes per row |
8,000 bytes per row |
File size |
2 GB |
2 GB |
Documents |
30,000,000 per library |
30,000,000 per library |
Major versions |
400,000 |
400,000 |
Minor versions |
Not Published |
511 |
Items |
30,000,000 per list |
30,000,000 per list |
Rows size limit |
6 table rows internal to the database used for a list or
library item |
6 table rows internal to the database used for a list or
library item |
Bulk operations |
100 items per bulk operation |
100 items per bulk operation |
List view lookup threshold |
8 join operations per query |
8 join operations per query |
List view threshold |
5,000 |
5,000 |
List view threshold for auditors and administrators |
20,000 |
20,000 |
Subsite |
2,000 per site view |
2,000 per site view |
Coauthoring in Word and PowerPoint for .docx, .pptx and .ppsx
files |
10 concurrent editors per document |
10 concurrent editors per document |
Security scope |
1,000 per list |
1,000 per list |
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Column limits |
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276 |
276 |
Multiple Lines of Text |
192 |
192 |
Choice |
276 |
276 |
Number |
72 |
72 |
Currency |
72 |
72 |
Date and Time |
48 |
48 |
Lookup |
96 |
96 |
Yes / No |
96 |
96 |
Person or group |
96 |
96 |
Hyperlink or picture |
138 |
138 |
Calculated |
48 |
48 |
GUID |
6 |
6 |
Int |
96 |
96 |
Managed metadata |
94 |
94 |
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Page limits |
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25 per wiki or Web part page
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25 per wiki or Web part page
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Security limits |
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Number of SharePoint groups a user can belong
to
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5,000 |
5,000 |
Users in a site collection |
2 million per site collection |
2 million per site collection |
Active Directory Principles/Users in a SharePoint group |
5,000 per SharePoint group |
5,000 per SharePoint group |
SharePoint groups |
10,000 per site collection |
10,000 per site collection |
Security principal: size of the Security Scope |
5,000 per Access Control List (ACL) |
5,000 per Access Control List (ACL) |
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Search limits |
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Search service applications
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20 per farm |
20 per farm |
Crawl databases |
10 crawl databases per search service application 25 million items
per crawl database |
5 crawl databases per search service application |
Crawl components |
16 per search service application |
2 per search service application |
Index components |
Not Published |
60 per Search service application |
Index partitions |
20 per search service application 128 total |
20 per search service application |
Index replicas |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
3 per index partition |
Indexed items |
100 million per search service application; 10 million
per index partition |
100 million per search service application; 10 million
per index partition |
Crawl log entries |
100 million per search application |
100 million per search application |
Property databases |
10 per search service application;128 total |
10 per search service application;128
total |
Link database |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
Two per Search service application |
Query processing components |
128 per search application 64/(total crawl components) per
server |
1 per server computer |
Content processing components |
Not Published |
One per server computer |
Scope rules |
100 scope rules per scope; 600 total per search service
application |
100 scope rules per scope; 600 total per search service
application |
Scopes |
200 site scopes and 200 shared scopes per search service
application |
200 site scopes and 200 shared scopes per search service
application |
Display groups |
25 per site |
25 per site |
Alerts |
1,000,000 per search application (seems like a mistake) |
100,000 per search application |
Content sources |
50 per search service application |
50 per search service application |
Start addresses |
100 per content source |
100 per content source |
Concurrent crawls |
20 per search application |
20 per search application |
Crawled properties |
500,000 per search application |
500,000 per search application |
Crawl impact rule |
100 |
no limit |
Crawl rules |
100 per search service application |
no limit |
Managed properties |
100,000 per search service application |
50,000 per search service application |
Values per managed property |
Not Published |
100 |
Indexed managed property size |
Not Published |
512 KB per searchable/queryable managed property |
Managed property mappings |
100 per managed property |
100 per managed property |
Retrievable managed property size |
Not Published |
16 KB per managed property |
Sortable and refinable managed property size |
Not Published |
16 KB per managed property |
URL removals |
100 removals per operation |
100 removals per operation |
Authoritative pages |
1 top level and minimal second and third level pages per
search service application |
1 top level and minimal second and third level pages per
search service application |
Keywords |
200 per site collection |
200 per site collection |
Metadata properties recognized |
10,000 per item crawled |
10,000 per item crawled |
Analytics processing components |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
6 per Search service application |
Analytics reporting database |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
Four per Search service application |
Maximum eDiscovery KeywordQuery text length |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
16 KB |
Maximum KeywordQuery text length |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
4 KB |
Maximum length of eDiscovery KeywordQuery text at Search service
application level |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
20 KB |
Maximum length of KeywordQuery text at Search service application
level |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
20 KB |
Maximum size of documents pulled down by crawler |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
64 MB (3 MB for Excel documents) |
Navigable results from search |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
100,000 per query request per Search service application |
Number of entries in a custom entity extraction dictionary |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1 million |
Number of entries in a custom search dictionary |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
5,000 terms per tenant |
Number of entries in a thesaurus |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1 million |
Ranking models |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1,000 per tenant |
Results removal |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
No limit |
Term size |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
300 characters |
Unique terms in the index |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
2^31 (>2 billion terms) |
Unique contexts used for ranking |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
15 unique contexts per rank model |
User defined full text indexes |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
10 |
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User Profile Service limits |
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2,000,000 per service application |
2,000,000 per service application |
Social tags, notes and ratings |
500,000,000 per social database |
500,000,000 per social database |
Maximum Number of Users Imported Via FIM |
Not Published |
1000000 |
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Content deployment limits |
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Content deployment jobs running on different
paths
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20 |
20
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Blog limits |
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5,000 per site |
5,000 per site |
Comments |
1,000 per post |
1,000 per post
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Business Connectivity Services limits |
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5,000 per Web server (per tenant) |
5,000 per Web server (per tenant) |
External system connections |
500 per Web server |
500 per Web server |
Database items returned per request |
2,000 per database connector |
2,000 per database connector |
Response latency |
Not Published |
600 seconds |
Service response size |
Not Published |
150,000,000 bytes |
Filter Descriptor (in-store) |
Not Published |
200 per ECT method |
ECT Identifier (in-store) |
Not Published |
20 per ECT |
Database Item |
Not Published |
1,000,000 per request
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Workflow limits |
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Workflow postpone threshold
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15 |
15 |
Workflow timer batch size |
100 |
100 |
Workflow associations |
Not Published |
100 per list |
List items or documents that can be bulk created or uploaded to start
workflow instances |
Not Published |
5,000 items |
Published workflow definitions per site |
Not Published |
1,000 per site |
Total workflow associations per site |
Not Published |
1,799 per site |
Maximum workflow definition (xaml) size |
Not Published |
5,120 KB |
Maximum depth of a workflow sub-step in xaml (workflow
complexity) |
Not Published |
121 levels |
Workflow instance activations per second per web server |
Not Published |
6 per second |
Rest calls from SharePoint workflow per second per web server |
Not Published |
60 per second |
Workflow variable value size |
Not Published |
256 KB |
Maximum list size for workflow lookups to non-indexed fields |
Not Published |
5,000 items per list view |
Maximum list size for auto-start workflow associations |
Not Published |
10 million items per list
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Managed Metadata term store (database) limits |
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Maximum number of levels of nested terms in a term
store
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7 |
7 |
Maximum number of term sets in a term store |
1,000 |
1,000 |
Maximum number of terms in a term set |
30,000 |
30,000 |
Total number of items in a term store |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
Number of Variation Labels |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
209 per term store
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Visio Services limits |
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File size of Visio Web drawings
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50 MB |
50 MB |
Visio Web drawing recalculation time-out |
120 seconds |
120 seconds |
Visio Services minimum cache age (data connected diagrams) |
Minimum cache age: 0 to 24hrs |
Minimum cache age: 0 to 24hrs |
Visio Services maximum cache age (non-data connected
diagrams) |
Maximum cache age: 0 to 24hrs |
Maximum cache age: 0 to 24hrs
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SharePoint Web Analytics service limits |
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SharePoint entities |
30,000 per farm when Web Analytics is enabled |
Deprecated |
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PerformancePoint Services limits |
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1,000,000 per query on Excel Services data
source |
1,000,000 per query on Excel Services data
source |
Columns and rows |
15 columns by 60,000 rows |
15 columns by 60,000 rows |
Query on a SharePoint list |
15 columns by 5,000 rows |
15 columns by 5,000 rows |
Query on a SQL Server data source |
15 columns by 20,000 rows |
15 columns by 20,000 rows |
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Word Automation Services limits |
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512 MB |
512 MB |
Frequency with which to start conversions (minutes) |
1 minute (recommended) 15 minutes (default) 59
minutes (boundary) |
1 minute (recommended) 15 minutes (default) 59
minutes (boundary) |
Number of conversions to start per conversion process |
For PDF/XPS output formats: 30 x M For all other output
formats: 72 x M Where M is the value of Frequency with which to start
conversions (minutes) |
For PDF/XPS output formats: 30 x M For all other output
formats: 72 x M Where M is the value of Frequency with which to start
conversions (minutes) |
Conversion job size |
100,000 conversion items |
100,000 conversion items |
Total active conversion processes |
N-1, where N is the number of cores on each application
server |
N-1, where N is the number of cores on each application
server |
Word Automation Services database size |
2 million conversion items |
2 million conversion items
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SharePoint Workspace limits (Renamed to Office Live
Workspace) |
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Office Live Workspace list items
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30,000 items per list |
30,000 items per list |
Office Live Workspace documents |
1,800 documents limit in SharePoint Workspace |
1,800 documents in Office Live Workspace |
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OneNote limits |
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Number of Sections and Section Groups in a OneNote Notebook
(on SharePoint)
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See limit for "Documents" in List and library
limits |
See limit for "Documents" in List and library
limits |
Maximum size of a section |
See limit for "File size" in List and library
limits |
See limit for "File size" in List and library
limits |
Maximum size of an image, embedded file, and XPS OneNote printout in a
OneNote section. |
See limit for "File size" in List and library
limits |
See limit for "File size" in List and library
limits |
Maximum size of all images, embedded files, and XPS printouts in a single
OneNote page. |
Default limit is double the "File size" limit. |
Default limit is double the "File size"
limit. |
Merge operations |
One per CPU core per Web server |
One per CPU core per Web server
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Excel Services limits |
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Not Published |
10 MB
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Machine Translation Service limits |
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Input file size for binary files
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Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
524,288 KB per file |
Input file size for text files |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
15,360 KB per file |
Maximum character count for Microsoft Word Documents |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
10,000,000 per document |
Total concurrent translation processes |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
5 |
Delay between translations |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
59 minutes |
Number of translations per translation process |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1,000 per process |
Maximum concurrent translation requests |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
300 |
Files per translation job |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
100,000 files |
Machine Translation Service database size |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1,000,000 files
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Office Web Application Service limits |
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100 GB |
100 GB |
Renders |
One per document per second per CPU core per application
server (maximum eight cores) |
One per document per second per CPU core per application
server (maximum eight cores) |
OneNote concurrent merge operations |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
8 per document
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Project Server limits |
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Date: 12/31/2049 |
Date: 12/31/2049 |
Deliverables per project plan |
1,500 deliverables |
1,500 deliverables |
Number of fields in a view |
256 |
256 |
Number of clauses in a filter for a view |
50 |
50
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SharePoint Apps limits |
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Maximum Access app size on Office 365/SQL Azure |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
100 Mb |
Apps displayed in Manage Licenses page |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
2,000 |
Number of app licenses per tenant |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1,000,000 |
Number of apps displayed in the Add an App page |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
240 |
Number of managers per app license |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
30 |
Number of app licenses assigned to a user viewable by that
user |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
2,000 |
Number of apps in the corporate catalog viewable by a single
user |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
500 |
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Miscellaneous limits |
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Number of User agent substrings per device
channel
|
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
150 |
Number of SharePoint sources per EDiscovery case |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
100 |
Number of Exchange sources (mailboxes) per EDiscovery case |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
1500 |
Maximum size of EDiscovery Query |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
16K characters or 500 keywords |
Number of nodes in managed navigation term set |
Not Available in SharePoint 2010 |
2000
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