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Upcoming (2022 Nov/Dec) enforcement of limits for SharePoint lists & libraries in Site Collection
On Jul 26, 2022, MC405984 was published that states Microsoft will start enforcing (Nov/Dec 2022) hard limits on the number of list and libraries a site collection can have instead of just a recommen...
Roger Gu
Microsoft
MicrosoftDennyR, thanks for your feedback.
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide the capability to opt out sites from the limits. The sites that exceed the limits can impact more than just these sites. In the worst case, it can impact all the sites that are hosted in the same infrastructure.
Besides, not experiencing issues yet does not guarantee won't in the future. The service is a complex system that keeps evolving. There are certain operations that will fail and can cause cascading failure in the service. As mentioned early, the impact goes beyond the sites exceeding the limits.
RogerSomeone, thank you for the reply. Great to hear from someone on the team. This is in alignment with guidance I've received a couple of days ago from the PG as well through escalated tickets for our tenant. It's definitely frustrating on our side because SPO is terrific in so many ways. It gives us SO much granular control + all the greatness of doc mgmt + security + API access for terrific custom apps. I wish this one thing wasn't a hindrance. Sigh. So we're undertaking some architectural changes to the custom app that will bring our app into compliance. But I'm truly not sure if we're going to be able to make the November/December rollout. Can I petition ya'll to consider moving that back at least a couple of months? The July announcement with a November rollout allowed us only 4 months to figure something out. Seems like an additional 2 months or so would be a reasonable request. What do you think?