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Organising large Doc volumes in Sharepoint

I need to upload into Sharepoint around 100,000 (MS-Word) documents that are currently on a file server - added over the past 7 years. I've read that a sharepoint Document Library should really be limited to 2,000 documents, and that there are performance issues once this is exceeded.

I've thought about creating a Doc Library for each calendar year, but even so, there would still be well over 10,000 Docs in each one...

I read that creating Views on the Doc Libraries would increase performance, but I don't see how this would be. What about adding Indexes??

What's the best solution? Anyone come across this issue?

Solution

  • The soft limit is 2000 per view. The current document library limit for "acceptable performance" is (God help anyone if they get to this): 5 million per library:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287790.aspx

    Maybe a library per year with a folder (yeah, I know, folders are bad) for each month?