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