Saturday, November 17, 2007
Continued: SharePoint vs File Server
Early this week I did a post on the difference between a file server and SharePoint. I just ran across a post by Joel Oleson that explains at length what not to store in SharePoint. It is a nice, thoughtful list and worth taking a long look.
Here are some things I took away with me.
- You can store any type of files on SharePoint as long as the files are each smaller than 2GB hard limit and 50MB by default
- File types scenarios that do not work well: Linked Files and Documents
- Storing movies or streaming content is better served on media servers
- Limitations
- File names cannot exceed 128 characters in length
- Filename + folder structure + site structure + hostname should not exceed 260
- Recommendation: Limit depth to about 4 sites at a near max
I’ve run into to the 260 character limit a couple of times and have seen the other limitation around somewhere, but to have it all in one post is a nice resource.
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Do you know what happens when the file length or weblink is exceeded? I have a few users who insist in using names way to long and get unexpected results. I am not sure if this is causing thier issues, but can’t seem to find the answers to thier issues.