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The process of mapping the future functionality of a SharePoint site and predicting its growth, both physically and logically.

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SharePoint Proposal Guidelines

I'm thinking how much levels of details I should be put in a typical SharePoint proposal. So for example, should we put a section on the information architecture and the site structure, or leave it ...
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Capacity planning for back-end SQL Server 2012 for a SP 2013 Farm

Would like to know how much MB of space/how much load SQL Server has to take when we upload a 8 MB - 10 MB size of document in document library in SP 2013 site collection. Cant we calculate as 10 MB ...
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How should I reorganize this deployment?

I am the de facto IT guy for a small (20-ish employees) law firm (this is not my primary responsibility). I have no coding experience, though I have been researching SharePoint for months trying to ...
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How to do capacity planning for SharePoint 2013 DMS application?

Customer has given a DMS application to us for development. Now we got info from customer that total 1 million documents to be managed. Size of avg documents not known. My idea is this application can ...
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Sharepoint Excel files Capacity Planning

I have requirement to upload 30K records every year in document library and further attach workflow and do some stuff based on business criteria. I need to plan for capacity in SharePoint, so I need ...
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Plan farm with three SP2013 servers: all services running on servers

I'm about to deploy a medium SharePoint 2013 farm. I have five servers in total, I'll use 2 of them for the database (high-availability). I have to plan the distribution of SharePoint role/services ...
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threshold plan ahead approaches

I would like to ask which are the approaches being used to plan list implementation taking scalability into account. I know that we can create indexes, subfolders, multiple views and so on, but that ...
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SharePoint 2010 performance with SQL Server RBS

The SharePoint 2010 capactity planning document states that a database for a single sitecollection should not exceed 200 GB. However, if I use SQL Server RBS I can keep the physical database size ...
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Are big Content DB's really that bad? [closed]

I am creating a site collection with 6 subsites holding 1 document library each. We are migrating documents from an existing platform, somewhere around 300 000. The seperate sites represent a category ...
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Capacity planning for intranet portal of a large size global enterprise - SharePoint 2010

If a very large size farm wants to implement intranet portal which is having 20K user in each region e.g. North America, South America, Europe, Asia pacific region. What can be feasible plan for data-...
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number of web application we should have in a medium size topology

what will correct answer of this question? "How many web application we should have in a medium size topology in SharePoint 2010 farm?" I understand the capacity planning recommendation. But the ...
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Why can i store far more files in a Document Center than in a regular team site?

In a regular site the recommendations of Microsoft tells me not to store more than 200 GB in one SiteCollection in one Content Database. But if I create a "Docment Center"-site I'm allowed to create ...
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how to access and upload big data to External storage via Sharepoint 2013

We are in media agency and have Terabytes of data in storage but don't know how to manage it and access quickly and how to upload new data systematically, We have sharepoint 2013 standard installed ...
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How to calculate Search Admin Database size?

In the section entitled "Calculate Storage Sizing" in the technet article here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg750251.aspx?ppud=4 there are a number of useful formulas for calculating ...
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Sharepoint Application and seperate site collection

We have one site collection with several departmental sites within. The DB is approx 60G at the moment. Using SP2010 sp1. I'm now adding an application which consists of several tasks and several ...
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Create a QA site similar to StackExchange on SharePoint 2010 [closed]

One of our client wish to implement a smart collaboration process for its vast pool of employees around 50k located across different continents. They already have SharePoint 2010 enabled as the ...
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Need to create more than 40,000 blog sites with 50MB space for each

I need to plan a Blogging Platform on Sharepoint which will have support for more than 40,000 blog sites. The users will come and create blog for themselves. I checked here for capacity planning and ...
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IMporting all Contacts from OUtlook Public Folder into Sharepoint list?

What is the best way to import all contacts from outlook public folder to a sharepoint contacts list? We have about 3000 contacts and I understand going over 2000 items in a list hits performance. ...
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Subsites limit in a flat hierarchy in a Site Collection in SharePoint 2010

According to SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management article , We can have total 250,000 sites in a site collection. I see some suggestions over the internet (like here)not to have more than ...
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Planning document restore and backup techniques for SP2010

I've been thinking about how to properly backup Sharepoint such that it could be restored. Right now we have a simple farm with only one web application, several site collections each of which may ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Farm plan

I have a task where I have to propose a farm layout for new project. There will be about 70000 users, and no more than 100 site collections. I estimated requests per second value on 4,66. There will ...
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WSS_Logging database size

Our sharepoint server 2010 WSS_Logging database is about 100GB and counting ... (Farm DB ~1TB / ~100 000 pages viewed per day / ~5000 unique users per days) I've reduced retention and logging levels ...
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Architecture and Capacity planning for FAST search farm

We are building our new fast farm and have plans to put up one column of Physical servers for FAST indexing and crawling. We will be crawling around 15 million items including SharePoint sites, ...
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Site collection size > 300GB SharePoint 2010

The image url is: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/57642/ I believe you are understanding the site collections and the sites from the above picture. [All site collections are using their ...
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How many Web applications can be hosted on a SharePoint 2010 WFE server?

I want to know the max number of web applications that can be created on SharePoint WFE. Is there any limit or does it depend on hardware? Also, does it depends on IIS version?
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How to design for large content databases?

Although single content databases of upto 200GB is possible in Sharepoint 2010, administering and managing such a db would be a nightmare. What would you suggest for options in a case where there is ...
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How to calculate SharePoint capacity planning?

How do we calculate the capacity planning for SharePoint handling an Internet Presence site. What will be the server topology? How many WFE and so on? If for instance if we need to identify the ...
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