#Pull the pin challenge 1 series#

There is an actual physical limit to how many items you can store in your SharePoint document libraries and lists.

In other words, SharePoint wouldn’t be a prevalent platform for enterprise document management if it imposed such hard limits on its users. A single individual freelance writer can easily build up a document library of that size! An enterprise that employs dozens or hundreds of people on a project is going to rapidly surpass 5,000 SharePoint documents being stored in a shared document library. After all, storing 5,000 documents in a single document library is not an unusually large amount-especially for a business. Understanding the 5,000 Item Limit ThresholdĮven if you don’t think your business has a ton of documents, understanding the so-called “limits” of SharePoint document management is important. In this first part, we will discuss the soft and hard limits associated with list and libraries and what you can do to work with them instead of against them.

#Pull the pin challenge 1 series#

In our next series of articles, we’ll discuss the best practices in storing, searching, and managing large document libraries. SharePoint has a 5,000 “ item limit threshold” for document libraries and lists, and while this threshold doesn’t mean what you think it might mean-SharePoint doesn’t cap your library at 5,000 documents, in other words-it can still pose a challenge to organizations that need to manage scores of documents. If you use SharePoint primarily as a place to store, create, collaborate on, and otherwise manage documents, then you may be pushing your SharePoint document libraries to the limit, literally.