Hot answers tagged capacity-planning
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I think SharePoint is a powerful, feature-rich, and extensible platform and can fulfill your capacity needs if DESIGNED correctly (Information Architecture, Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Storage)
You can use a web application and divide the blogs into site collections.
Below are few points that may adress your concerns:
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The minimum database size is a recommendation, not a stop. Check out my blog post on databases and SharePoint: http://davidlozzi.com/tag/database/.
If you're looking to move above the minimum requirements, you'll need to include additional maintenance tasks, possibly improve hardware and such. SharePoint can support 4TB databases, its up to the ...
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I found the easiest way to move/copy contacts over to a Sharepoint Contacts list.
Navigate to the List in Sharepoint and click on "Connect to Outlook".
Now you will have the contacts list show up in Outlook under your contacts tab.
Find the folder in Public Folders where the contacts are stored and simply select all your contacts (ctrl+A), drag and drop ...
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If this is primarily a blog platform, then I would not be too worried about the storage size. The blog posts will not be that large, and unless the images are enormous they will not take up significant space. I agree with David's comments on database sizing and limits.
When thinking about quotas and sizing, you will find that you will not have uniform use ...
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If you have a lot of data to migrate, you could look at third party tools to assist with moving data.
I just tried with a public contact list here, I selected all the users, copied them, pasted them into Excel and from there, you can massage any data, and upload it to a contacts list in datasheet view.
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3000 items in a list is no problem. SharePoint supports up to 30,000,000. See SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits
Viewing more than 2000 at a time degradades performance.
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The "Capacity Management" explicitly states that 2.000 is a threshold:
Subsite | 2,000 per site view | Threshold
The interface for enumerating subsites of a given Web site does not perform well as the number of subsites surpasses 2,000. Similarly, the
All Site Content page and the Tree View Control performance will
decrease significantly as the ...
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