Guidelines using SharePoint 2007

Maybe it is time to write down some guidelines that you should keep in mind while working with SharePoint 2007, or you could just ignore them as well. I found these guidelines in Blogs, articles on the internet but I wanted to group them together.

 

Limit 

# site collections in a web application 

50.000 

# sites in a site collection

250.000 

# subsites nested in a site 

2000 

# lists 

2000 

# items in a list 

10.000.000 

# documents in library 

2.000.000

# documents in folder

2000

# documents in index

50.000.000

Maximum document file size

2 GB

# search scopes

1000

# user profiles

5.000.000

 

These guidelines are not hard limits, meaning if you have 2005 lists on a site, your site will still work. The only thing that could happen by adding more items is that your performance could decrease.